paperpal vs AlphaFold Sovereign MCP
paperpal is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑27.
paperpal is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Jeremy Pinto. No marketplace we read lists it any more. AlphaFold Sovereign MCP is an MCP server published by smaniches. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, PyPI (MCP servers)). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-27. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  AlphaFold Sovereign MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace jerpint/paperpal | Removed on 2026-10-27 Version: 0.2.0-dev.1 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 13 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.5.7 Downloads/month (PyPI): 745 Downloads/week (PyPI): 534 Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
| PyPI (MCP servers) | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.5.7 Downloads/month (PyPI): 745 Downloads/week (PyPI): 534 Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
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
| Fact | paperpalno longer listed · | AlphaFold Sovereign MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 13 | 4 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 2 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-24 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (alphafold-sovereign-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 2 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/jerpint/paperpal | github.com/smaniches/alphafold-sovereign-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 4 | 3 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of paperpal
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Academic research MCP server for paper search, citation checks, graphs, and deep research.
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Academic Research Intelligence MCP
Academic paper search, scientific literature, citation analysis, arXiv & semantic related-work.
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litra-paper-search io.github.akkylab/litra-paper-search
MCP server for Litra.ai – AI-powered academic paper search with relevance scoring and summarization
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Select & run open-source AI literature-review tools: a curated 70+ catalog plus a launcher (scripts/litrun.py) that installs and runs the top tools and pipelines.
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A powerful AI skill for learning research paper
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Semi-automated research assistant with skills for literature review, experiments, analysis, writing, and project knowledge management
What each says it does
paperpal
ML literature research for agents: top-tier venue search, arXiv / Hugging Face / Semantic Scholar, full-text verification, credibility scoring, and gdoc-ready notes.
AlphaFold Sovereign MCP
MCP server for AlphaFold and 8 other biomedical data sources with a local SQLite knowledge graph
How to run each
paperpal
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
AlphaFold Sovereign MCP As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio alphafold-sovereign-mcp -- uvx alphafold-sovereign-mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: paperpal · What it can do: AlphaFold Sovereign MCP · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Package data comes from the Python Package Index (pypi.org). Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.