Vantage research · November 2026 · MCP and agents
What AI cites for “best mcp servers”
ChatGPT cited 8 sites, Gemini cited 8 sites, Perplexity cited 9 sites. No site was cited by all three.
Updated monthlyNext edition 1 December 2026
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexity dots beside a site: the other engines that cite it too
ChatGPT
8 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 21 words
- github.com
- developers.notion.com
- docs.slack.dev
- linear.app
- devhunt.org
- mcpcatalog.dev
- modelcontextprotocol.io
- popmcp.com
Brands namedGitHub MCP, Playwright MCP, Context7, Firecrawl MCP, Brave Search MCP, Supabase MCP, PostgreSQL MCP, MongoDB MCP
Gemini
8 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 37 words
- k2view.com
- gamut.so
- reddit.comcommunity
- stainless.com
- webfuse.com
- totalum.app
- nimbalyst.com
- medium.comcommunity
Brands namedDocumentation & Knowledge, Context7, Firecrawl, Developer Tooling & Version Control, GitHub, Playwright, Filesystem, Databases & Backend Infrastructure
Perplexity
9 sites · opens with a sentence · has a table · opening 14 words
- mcpservers.org
- amplitude.com
- github.com
- skyvia.com
- zapier.com
- controlplane.com
- affine.pro
- tembo.io
- ainfluencer.com
Brands namednone
Cited by more than one engine
- github.com
Is your site one of them?
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three engines, and it will tell you whether you are cited, who is instead, and what changed since your last check.
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Each engine was asked once, in English, as from the United States, on 2026-11-01. Answers change from run to run, so read this as a snapshot. Download the data.