# Arcmira vs Firecrawl MCP (slim)

> Firecrawl MCP scores 78 (A) to Arcmira's 64.2 (B) for web search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Firecrawl MCP scores 78 (A) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on payments & pricing. Both do web search.

- Arcmira: B 64.2, rank #420 of 1227 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcmira.min.md
- Firecrawl MCP: A 78, rank #22 of 1227 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- Arcmira, good for Agents answering what was said on YouTube shows and podcasts, who was mentioned or appeared where, which brands sponsor a show and how a name's mentions are trending, with timestamped source links, through one connection on a free monthly allowance. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 55 against 50. 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 Reliability, 78 against 40; Security & auth, 70 against 61; Transparency & trust, 75 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Arcmira loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Arcmira | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 91 | 92 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Arcmira | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Arcmira, Inc. | Firecrawl (Mendable) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp` | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Price for web search | $0.001 per credit | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Arcmira's Terms of Service. The MCP server's source is public under an all-rights-reserved notice; the Claude Code plugin, the arcmira TypeScript SDK and CLI and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0, and the Famous rankings are CC BY 4.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 4 | 27 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.arcmira/arcmira` | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-13 | 2024-11-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-02 | 2024-12-26 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 78 stars | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (8) |