# Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Firecrawl MCP

> Firecrawl MCP scores 77.9 (BB) to Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's 74.3 (BB) for web search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-17

Firecrawl MCP scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's 74.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do web search.

- Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: grade BB, 74.3/100, rank #76 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json
- Firecrawl MCP: grade BB, 77.9/100, rank #22 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/firecrawl-mcp.json
- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md
- All 163 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 226 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (BB)

Good for: A team already on AWS that wants agents to search the web through a governed MCP gateway, with owner-set domain lists, IAM or OAuth control and queries kept inside AWS.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 90 against 78
- Security & auth, 85 against 70

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: No error responses for the tool are documented. The only response example has `isError` false

### Firecrawl MCP (BB)

Good for: Agents that need the whole pipeline (find URLs, scrape to markdown, crawl, monitor) from one server, and for trying without an account.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 91 against 78
- Agent ergonomics, 92 against 69
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 87 against 80

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source

Watch for: No x402 or other machine payment


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Firecrawl MCP | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 78 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +12 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 91 | Firecrawl MCP +13 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 92 | Firecrawl MCP +23 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 70 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +15 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 50 | Firecrawl MCP +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 87 | Firecrawl MCP +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 74 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **74.3 · BB** | **77.9 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Firecrawl (Mendable) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp` | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for web search | $7 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation page | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 1 | 27 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2024-11-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2024-12-26 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (8) |

## Verdicts

**Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.** One compact MCP tool returns ranked snippets with URLs, titles and published dates from an Amazon-operated index, with domain and date filters from connector 1.2.0, at $7 per 1,000 queries. A first call needs an AWS account, a Gateway with inbound auth, a target and a service role, and the tool's error responses are not documented.

**Firecrawl MCP.** Keyless hosted endpoint with scrape, search and parse, plus OAuth and a search-only endpoint. No x402 or other machine payment.

## Before you call either

### Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

1. Call `tools/list` on the gateway and take the tool's name from it. AWS's call examples name gateway tools by target and tool
2. Keep `query` to 200 characters and `maxResults` between 1 and 25 (default 10). The published schema states these limits only in descriptions
3. Check the target's connector version before sending `filters`. Version 1.1.0, the default, exposes only `query` and `maxResults`
4. Keep each result's URL and title with any answer built from it. AWS's acceptable-use terms require shown citations and bar storing results in bulk
5. On a throttled request, wait the `retryAfter` seconds in the error body. The default quota is 10 Web Search requests a second, adjustable

### Firecrawl MCP

1. Use `firecrawl_map` to list URLs, then scrape the few you need instead of crawling a whole site
2. On the keyless endpoint only scrape, search and parse work. A 429 carries a `signup_url` for the human
3. Ask for markdown only. JSON, question and highlight formats add 4 credits a page
4. Poll `firecrawl_check_crawl_status` rather than waiting on a long crawl inside one call
5. Check the URL before scraping. Dead pages still cost a credit
6. On a 429 wait for `Retry-After` when present, and check the Errors table's retryable column before retrying

## Tutorials

- [Turn a documentation page into Markdown with Firecrawl](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/firecrawl-mcp/), for Firecrawl MCP

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Firecrawl MCP?

Firecrawl MCP scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's 74.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability and security & auth.

### Do Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Firecrawl MCP need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Firecrawl MCP without installing anything?

Yes. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has a hosted endpoint at https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp and Firecrawl MCP at https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp.

### Are Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Firecrawl MCP open source?

No open-source release is listed for Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Firecrawl MCP is open source (MIT).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "agentcore-web-search", "b": "firecrawl-mcp"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agentcore-web-search firecrawl-mcp`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/firecrawl-mcp.json

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