Library and API docs for coding agents

We gave Context7 and DeepWiki the 15 dev and docs questions from our search eval, each pointed at the library or repo an agent would pick. Both found fewer of the required facts than the better web search APIs did. Many of these questions are about hosted products whose answers live in current docs pages rather than in a library's README or code. DeepWiki answers from the repository, which suits questions about how code behaves. Every docs benchmark we found elsewhere is run by a vendor.

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Measured by usOur search eval · Nov 7, 2026

Required facts found, 15 dev and docs questions

  1. Synthetic Search APIfull page text 0.9713/15 full
  2. Synthetic Search API900-char trim, equal-budget check 0.9512/15 full
  3. Tavilybasic 0.8810/15 full
  4. Exaauto 0.809/15 full
  5. Context7/v2/context 0.716/15 full
  6. DeepWikiask_question 0.677/15 full
  7. DuckDuckGoHTML results 0.664/15 full

Violet bars are docs tools; gold bars are web search APIs on the same 15 questions. String matching undercounts answer-style tools somewhat. DeepWiki scored 0.77 on the 13 questions with a public repo.

Full search results

Catalog only, not yet measuredGitHub · Oct 2, 2026

Adoption: GitHub stars

  1. Context7 62.6k
  2. DeepWikideepwiki-open repo 18.1k
  3. GitMCP 8.4k
  4. Microsoft Learn MCP 1.9k
  5. docs-mcp-serverarabold 1.8k
  6. Ref.tools 1.2k
  7. sosumi 0.48k

Stars measure attention, not answer quality. DeepWiki's count is its open-source runner; the hosted service has no repo of its own.

Tools

By GitHub stars, most first; tools without a public repo last, alphabetically. Links go to each vendor's own site.

Catalog only, not yet measuredvendor pages and secondary sources · compiled Nov 7, 2026
ToolWhat it doesEvidencePrice or terms
Context7 MCP + REST 0.71 on our docs questions 62.6k GitHub stars free 1,000 calls/mo; Pro $10/seat
DeepWiki AI wiki for any GitHub repo 0.67 on our docs questions 18.1k GitHub stars (deepwiki-open repo) free
GitMCP docs of any GitHub repo by URL 8.4k GitHub stars free, open source
Microsoft Learn MCP first-party Microsoft and Azure docs 1.9k GitHub stars free
docs-mcp-server self-hosted docs indexer 1.8k GitHub stars free, self-hosted
Ref.tools token-efficient; private docs 1.2k GitHub stars $50/mo
sosumi Apple docs and WWDC transcripts 480 GitHub stars free, no key
Stack Exchange API the Q&A backbone none yet free, 10k requests/day with a key

Caveats

  • Vendor-run boards include Firecrawl DevDex, SynSci ContextBench and the pydocs-mcp suite. We cite none of their rankings.

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