# Firecrawl MCP vs jevcrawl (slim)

> Firecrawl MCP scores 75.3 (BB) to jevcrawl's 63.7 (B) for crawling. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Firecrawl MCP scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against jevcrawl's 63.7 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do crawling.

- Firecrawl MCP: BB 75.3, rank #53 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- jevcrawl: B 63.7, rank #409 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md
- 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, 88 against 81; Agent ergonomics, 92 against 80; Security & auth, 67 against 59; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Maintenance & community, 87 against 68; Transparency & trust, 74 against 45. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- jevcrawl, good for An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.

| Category | Firecrawl MCP | jevcrawl |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 92 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Firecrawl MCP | jevcrawl |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Firecrawl (Mendable) | Rayen Mlayeh |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 26 | 3 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-11-05 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-12-26 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |