Obsidian Everywhere vs MCP Obsidian

In-depth architectural comparison of the Obsidian Everywhere and MCP Obsidian 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 Obsidian Everywhere when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: SQLite FTS5 full-text indexing, In-memory graph traversal with backlinks, shortest paths, and PageRank, Local multilingual semantic search using multilingual-e5-small.

Explore Obsidian Everywhere Details

Choose MCP Obsidian when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Local stdio MCP access to an Obsidian vault, Note reading, writing, patching, moving, and deletion, Multi-word search with BM25 reranking.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Obsidian Everywhere junnnnnw00 Knowledge & Memory	MCP Obsidian bitbonsai Knowledge & Memory
Summary	Graph-native Obsidian vault server with 31 tools for search, backlinks, n-hop neighborhoods, structured and paginated reads, and safe file, partial, and bulk edits with dry-run and rollback. Works with Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, and any MCP client. npx -y obsidian-everywhere /path/to/vault	Universal AI bridge for Obsidian vaults using MCP. Provides safe read/write access to notes with 11 comprehensive methods for vault operations including search, batch operations, tag management, and frontmatter handling. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant.
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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": {
    "junnnnnw00-obsidian-everywhere": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-everywhere"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bitbonsai-mcp-obsidian": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "bitbonsai-mcp-obsidian"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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