Fully Decentralized P2P Search Engine for LLMs
InfoMesh
Fully Decentralized P2P Search Engine for LLMs No credit card. No API key. No usage cap. Forever free.
Quick Start • Why InfoMesh • Features • What's New • Architecture • Security • Credits • Contributing • Docs
[!TIP] P2P Bootstrap Nodes Active InfoMesh ships with multiple bootstrap nodes across Azure regions — your node connects automatically on first start. To add more peers manually:
infomesh peer add /ip4/<IP>/tcp/4001/p2p/ infomesh peer test
💡 Why InfoMesh?
The Problem
Every AI assistant needs real-time web access — but that access is gated behind expensive, proprietary search APIs:
| Type | Typical Cost | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| LLM-bundled web search | Hidden in token cost | Locked to one vendor's API, no standalone access |
| Custom search API | ~$3–5 / 1,000 queries | API key + billing account required, rate-limited |
| AI search SaaS | ~$0.01–0.05 / query | SaaS dependency, monthly usage caps |
| Search scraping proxy | ~$50+/month | Fragile, breaks on upstream changes |
| InfoMesh | $0 — Forever Free | None. You own the node, you own the index |
This creates a paywall barrier for independent AI developers, open-source assistants, and researchers. Small projects and local LLMs simply cannot afford real-time web search.
The Solution
I started building AI agents and quickly hit a wall: there was no free web search API. Every provider wanted a credit card, a billing account, or a monthly subscription — just to let an AI agent look something up on the web. That felt wrong.
So I built InfoMesh — a decentralized search engine where the community is the infrastructure:
- No central server — every participant is both a crawler and a search node.
- No per-query cost — contribute crawling, earn search credits. The more you give, the more you can search.
- No vendor lock-in — standard MCP protocol integration, works offline with your local index.
- No data harvesting — search queries never leave your node. There is no central entity to collect them.
InfoMesh does not compete with existing commercial search providers. Those companies serve human search at massive scale with ads-based monetization. InfoMesh provides minimal, sufficient search capabilities for AI assistants — for free, via MCP — democratizing real-time web access without per-query billing.
Tools (5)
web_searchPerforms a web search across the P2P network.fetch_pageFetches the content of a specific URL.crawl_urlCrawls a URL to index its content.fact_checkVerifies information against the P2P index.statusReturns the current status of the P2P node.Configuration
{"mcpServers": {"infomesh": {"command": "infomesh", "args": ["mcp"]}}}