Comparison

exa vs Spin My Day

exa is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by exa-labs. Marketplaces we read that list it: 5 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Official MCP Registry, Docker MCP Catalog, Claude: knowledge-work-plugins, Community GitHub marketplaces). Spin My Day is an MCP server published by GoodTurnStudio. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-16. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.

Where each is published

Where each is published
Marketplace	exa	Spin My Day
Claude Code: claude-plugins-official	Listed Version: 3.4.1 Forks (GitHub): 403 Stars (GitHub): 5 133 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Not listed
Official MCP Registry	Listed Version: 3.4.1 Forks (GitHub): 403 Stars (GitHub): 5 133 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Listed Version: 1.3.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11
Docker MCP Catalog	Listed Version: sha256:d88edd571d98 Forks (GitHub): 403 Pulls (Docker Hub): 36 443 Stars (Docker Hub): 7 Stars (GitHub): 5 133 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Not listed
Claude: knowledge-work-plugins	Listed Version: 3.4.1 Forks (GitHub): 403 Stars (GitHub): 5 133 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Not listed

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

The facts side by side

exa vs Spin My Day
Fact	exa	Spin My Day
Marketplaces that list it (differs)	5 (better)	1 (worse)
Stars (GitHub) (differs)	5 133 (better)	0 (worse)
Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs)	36 443	No figure on Docker Hub
Forks (GitHub) (differs)	403 (better)	0 (worse)
Last release	Not published	Not published
Where it runs (differs)	Remote server or your machine	Remote server (goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/spinmyday/mcp)
Transport (differs)	Streamable HTTP, stdio	Streamable HTTP
Tools it declares (differs)	2	Not published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)	1, secrets among them: 1	Not published
Parts of the bundle (differs)	3	Not a bundle
Licence (differs)	MIT	Not stated
Repository (differs)	github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server	github.com/goodturnstudio/goodturn-mcp
Changes in the last 7 days	0	0
First seen	2026-10-11	2026-10-11
Endpoint at the last check (differs)	not checked yet	Responded 3 days ago

Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.

What each says it does

exa

In its own words, on Claude Code: claude-plugins-official:

Exa AI web search, deep research, and content extraction. Provides MCP tools and research skills for comprehensive web search, people discovery, company research, academic papers, and more.

Spin My Day

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Plans a whole day out in any city, matched to the weather, your mood and diet.

How to run each

exa As a Claude Code plugin

Claude Code

/plugin install exa@claude-plugins-official

Spin My Day As a remote MCP server

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http spinmyday https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/spinmyday/mcp

Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.

Only Spin My Day has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints

Tools each declares

Only exa has

web_fetch_exa
web_search_exa

Only Spin My Day has

list_vibes
spin_my_day

Both have

None

Tool names as the marketplaces declare them and as Ext Ops observed them on the endpoints (Spin My Day as of 2026-10-13). More tools is not better in itself: compare what each needs for the job.

Settings each asks for

The marketplaces of Spin My Day publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.

What it can do: exa · What it can do: Spin My Day · Compare two other plugins

Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-16. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.