brave-search-mcp vs time
Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.
brave-search-mcp by mikechao | time by modelcontextprotocol | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | ★ 117 | ★ 85,748 |
| 30d uses | — | — |
| Score | 47 | 77 |
| Official | — | ✓ |
| Categories | SearchAI / LLM ToolsDeveloper Tools | ProductivityDeveloper ToolsCommunication |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Last commit | 2 mo ago | this month |
brave-search-mcp · Summary
MCP server integrating Brave Search API with web, image, video, news, local POI, and LLM context search capabilities.
time · Summary
A comprehensive MCP server providing time and timezone conversion tools with automatic system timezone detection.
brave-search-mcp · Use cases
- Enhancing AI assistants with real-time web search capabilities
- Research workflows requiring comprehensive web content extraction
- Applications needing multi-modal search results (images, videos, news)
- Local business information retrieval for service-based applications
time · Use cases
- Assisting with international meeting scheduling across time zones
- Providing real-time time information for location-based queries
- Enabling time conversion for travel planning and itineraries
brave-search-mcp · Install
Installation
- Get a Brave Search API key from [Brave Search API account](https://brave.com/search/api/)
Using Claude Desktop
Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcp-servers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"brave-search-mcp"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}Running as standalone
BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcpFor HTTP mode:
BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp --httptime · Install
Installation Options
**Using uv (recommended):**
uvx mcp-server-time**Using PIP:**
pip install mcp-server-time
python -m mcp_server_time**Configure for Claude Desktop:**
{
"mcpServers": {
"time": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-server-time"]
}
}
}