IlyaGusev Academia MCP vs Markcrawl

In-depth architectural comparison of the IlyaGusev Academia MCP and Markcrawl MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose IlyaGusev Academia MCP when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Search & Data Extraction domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: arxiv_search, arxiv_download, anthology_search.

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Choose Markcrawl when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Search & Data Extraction domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Single-page and whole-site crawling, Clean Markdown and JSONL output, Citation metadata with access dates.

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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	IlyaGusev Academia MCP Search & Data Extraction	Markcrawl AIMLPM Search & Data Extraction
Summary	Search arXiv and ACL Anthology, retrieve citations and references, and browse web sources to accel…	Crawl websites into clean Markdown, search pages, and extract structured data with LLMs. Built-in MCP server for web research and RAG pipelines.
Category & Scope	Search & Data Extraction

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ilyagusev-academia-mcp": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": [
        "academia_mcp",
        "stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aimlpm-markcrawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "clawhub"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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