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I tried 100+ MCP Servers and Here's my Top 10

Emmanuel Mumba on May 29, 2025

Let’s face it—modern development moves fast. And with so many tools out there, staying efficient without bouncing between apps is a game-changer. T...
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Rupam Golui • Edited

I would love to add one more it will be context7.... It allows your ide to interact with the latest docs available on the internet for the majority of the lib and APIs which are maintained by the community

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Paul

context7 is really innovative. Also similar is the docfork MCP (docfork.com) which likewise connects to heaps of repo docs.

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jeffdev03

Hey, cool list of MCP servers!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Thanks Jeff. Glad it helps

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Kristen

Wow, that's interesting to lean. Thank you Emmanuel!

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Emmanuel Mumba

You are welcome Kristen. Lets keep learning

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Sus

Browserbase is great, but registration is required.
Much more convenient than Duckduckgo, no registration required.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "duckduckgo-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "duckduckgo-mpc-server"]
    }
}
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Alex P

The big list is here

github.com/modelcontextprotocol/se...

I like the Sequential Thinking MCP Server

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Rajkumar V

This style guide has helped our team tremendously with consistent code reviews: rkoots.github.io/styleguide/

It might help your team too!

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Oli Wolff

This is super helpful!

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Dotallio

Love how you laid out the real strengths of each MCP server and their config tips - have you found any combos of these that work especially well together in Cursor?

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Kenny Lee

I’ve been experimenting with different MCP combos too, and honestly, switching and testing them in Cursor started getting tedious after the first few...

I think you can try apps like MCP Now, which helps manage all servers from one place, making it easy to hot-swap between configs and test flows quickly without digging into JSON every time.

Not perfect (macOS only right now), but it definitely helped me stay in the zone while testing different setups. Worth a look if you’re mixing and matching MCPs like this