Hacker News MCP vs Kagi MCP Server

Hacker News MCP

MCP Servers

Kagi MCP Server

MCP Servers

Tagline

Hacker News MCP

MCP server that lets Claude and other LLM clients read Hacker News stories, comments, users, and search results

Kagi MCP Server

Official Kagi Search MCP server: search and extract the web from any MCP-compatible agent.

Pricing

Hacker News MCP

Free· Free and open-source (MIT). No API keys or accounts required — hits the public Hacker News API and Algolia HN Search directly.

Kagi MCP Server

Paid· Free: $0 USD · Team: $4 USD per user/month · Enterprise: $21 USD per user/month

Lowest paid tier

Hacker News MCP

—

Kagi MCP Server

$4 USD per user/month · Team

captured 2026-10-27

API

Hacker News MCP

Not listed

Kagi MCP Server

Yes

Open source

Hacker News MCP

Yes · MIT

Kagi MCP Server

Yes · MIT

GitHub stars

Hacker News MCP

76

checked 2026-10-29

Kagi MCP Server

552

checked 2026-10-29

Last GitHub push

Hacker News MCP

2025-07-14

Kagi MCP Server

2026-10-28

First commit

Hacker News MCP

2024-12

Kagi MCP Server

2024-12

Best for

Hacker News MCP

Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Cline users who want their assistant to read Hacker News front pages, comment threads, and search results as part of a broader research or coding workflow.

Kagi MCP Server

Engineers using Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or other MCP clients who already pay for Kagi and want their agent to search and read the web through Kagi's cleaner index instead of a generic SERP API.

Not for

Hacker News MCP

Teams that need to post to HN, moderate submissions, or run high-volume server-side HN analytics — this is a local, read-only stdio tool, not a hosted API.

Kagi MCP Server

Hobbyists who want a free web-search MCP, or teams that need summarizer/FastGPT tools today, or shops that require an on-prem search stack with no third-party API dependency.

Editorial score

Hacker News MCP

—

Kagi MCP Server

—

Use cases

Hacker News MCP

Daily Hacker News front-page digest inside ClaudeSummarising the comment thread on a specific Show HN or Ask HNKeyword search across HN history from within an LLM chatProfiling a user's recent submissions and commentsChaining article fetch + comment analysis with a browser MCPTrend spotting across top / new / ask / show feedsReference implementation for building your own read-only MCP wrapper

Kagi MCP Server

agent web search groundingClaude Code documentation lookupdeep-research pipelinesURL to Markdown extraction for RAGnews and video search from an LLMKagi lens-scoped queries in agentscitation gathering for research assistantscoding agent error-message lookups

Pros

Hacker News MCP

• Zero-config: no API key, no account, works against the public HN and Algolia endpoints out of the box
• Covers the four things people actually want from HN in an LLM context — front pages, comment threads, search, and user activity
• One-line install via Smithery, or a two-line `uvx` entry in any MCP client config
• Composes cleanly with other MCP servers (README shows a Puppeteer + HN chain for article + comments summaries)
• MIT-licensed and small enough to fork or self-host without ceremony
• Because it's local stdio, no HN data flows through a third-party relay

Kagi MCP Server

• Official, first-party MCP server maintained by Kagi (not a community wrapper)
• Two clean tools that cover the 90% agent case: search and full-page Markdown extraction
• Both hosted (mcp.kagi.com) and local (uvx/Docker) deployment modes
• Documented setup recipes for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Smithery
• MIT-licensed Python code, easy to fork or audit
• Rides Kagi's ad-free, spam-de-boosted index rather than generic SERP APIs
• Supports Kagi lenses and filters so agents can scope searches to news, docs, etc.

Cons

Hacker News MCP

• Read-only — no submit, upvote, flag, or comment actions (an intentional but real limitation)
• Small maintainer surface (single-author repo, sporadic updates) so bugs may sit
• No caching or pagination controls beyond what the underlying HN/Algolia APIs offer; large comment trees can blow out an LLM context window
• Only useful inside an MCP-capable client — not a standalone CLI or HTTP service
• Search quality is bounded by Algolia HN Search; nuanced semantic queries still miss things a human scroll would catch

Kagi MCP Server

• Requires a paid Kagi API key with pay-per-use billing; not usable free
• FastGPT and Universal Summarizer tools are currently absent (rewrite in progress)
• Python + uv toolchain assumption raises the bar vs. a single-binary MCP server
• Small surface area: no built-in caching, batching, or spend controls beyond Kagi's invoice cap
• Hosted endpoint means your queries and Bearer token traverse Kagi infra, not a concern for everyone but worth noting for regulated workloads

Website

Hacker News MCP

github.com

Kagi MCP Server

github.com

Editorial score: rule-based, 0–10, from AI-assisted profile inputs (see /methodology) — not a user rating; “—” means unscored. “Not listed” means we have no record of it, not that it is absent. GitHub figures and prices carry the date they were checked or captured; prices are shown as published, unconverted.