# Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Firecrawl MCP (slim)

> 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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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: BB 74.3, rank #76 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.min.md
- Firecrawl MCP: BB 77.9, rank #22 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, 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 Free to start without a card.
- Firecrawl MCP, 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 Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 92 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 85 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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) |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for web search | $7 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |