{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Firecrawl MCP", "vendor": "Firecrawl (Mendable)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.firecrawl.dev", "kind": "mcp", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Official Firecrawl server for scraping pages to markdown/JSON, mapping and crawling sites, web search, browser interaction, monitoring and an autonomous research agent.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/firecrawl-mcp.json", "dns": "firecrawl-mcp.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "firecrawl-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Hosted endpoints take OAuth (`https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-oauth`) or `Authorization: Bearer \u003cFIRECRAWL_API_KEY\u003e` on `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp`. The same URL with no credential is the keyless tier (scrape, search, parse, rate-limited per IP). The search-only endpoint `/v2/mcp-search` has its own OAuth identity. Locally, FIRECRAWL_API_KEY or FIRECRAWL_OAUTH_TOKEN, or FIRECRAWL_API_URL for self-hosted. The README says never to put a key in the server URL. Endpoint- and format-locked keys are Enterprise only.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free 1,000 credits a month, no card. Hobby $19 a month or $16 billed yearly (5,000 credits), Standard $99 or $83 (100,000), Growth $399 or $333 (500,000), Scale $749 or $599 (1 million). Scrape, crawl and map cost 1 credit a page, search 2 per 10 results, interact 2 per browser-minute, monitor 1 per page per check (7 with deterministic extraction), and JSON, question or highlight formats add 4 a page. The Research Index paper endpoints are free. Agent has 5 free runs a day, then dynamic pricing. $5 top-ups on paid plans only, worth 1,000 credits on Hobby, 2,000 on Standard, 2,500 on Growth and 5,000 on Scale. Unused credits roll over for one month on Scale only. A scrape with no result isn't charged, but a page returning 403 or 404 costs 1 credit (https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in README, docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-25).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 27, "popularity": { "githubStars": 7500, "npmWeekly": 28853, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server#readme", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.crawl", "web.extract" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "local", "open-source", "freemium", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 62, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 92, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 50, "reliability": 78, "schema": 91, "security": 70, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-27. firecrawl-mcp 3.36.0, a minor release, makes local HTTP mode (`HTTP_STREAMABLE_SERVER=true` or `SSE_LOCAL=true`) answer 403 to any `Host` or `Origin` other than localhost, the address in `HOST` and the hosts in the new `FIRECRAWL_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS`, so a server reached under a LAN address or a reverse-proxy name stops answering until that variable is set. The CHANGELOG lists it under Changed on the day, not marked breaking, and no earlier notice was found. It closes a DNS-rebinding path and `FIRECRAWL_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS=*` restores the old behaviour, so 3 points, the floor, as zenrows was read on 1 November 2026. https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md" ], "verdict": "Keyless hosted endpoint with scrape, search and parse, plus OAuth and a search-only endpoint. No x402 or other machine payment.", "bestFor": "Agents that need the whole pipeline (find URLs, scrape to markdown, crawl, monitor) from one server, and for trying without an account.", "strengths": [ "Keyless hosted endpoint with scrape, search and parse, plus OAuth and a search-only endpoint", "Four partial incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026, the longest 56 minutes, none after 15 September", "Errors reference gives cause, remedy and retry advice per code, with Retry-After on 429", "Public v2 OpenAPI, llms.txt and readOnly or destructive hints on every tool", "firecrawl-mcp 3.36.0 on 27 October 2026, after 43 releases in 90 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "No x402 or other machine payment", "The API's prompt-injection check isn't exposed through the MCP tools", "403 and 404 responses cost a credit", "Open issues report 132 undescribed parameters and a schema mismatch", "Privacy policy last revised December 2024, with no retention period for scraped content" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `firecrawl_map` to list URLs, then scrape the few you need instead of crawling a whole site", "On the keyless endpoint only scrape, search and parse work. A 429 carries a `signup_url` for the human", "Ask for markdown only. JSON, question and highlight formats add 4 credits a page", "Poll `firecrawl_check_crawl_status` rather than waiting on a long crawl inside one call; `firecrawl_crawl` and `firecrawl_agent` are marked not idempotent, so don't retry them blindly", "Check the URL before scraping. Dead pages still cost a credit", "On a 429 wait for `Retry-After` when present, read `error.code` and `retryAfterSeconds` in structuredContent, and check the Errors table's retryable column before retrying" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 92, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 50, "reliability": 78, "schema": 91, "security": 70, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 90, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "firecrawl": { "args": [ "-y", "firecrawl-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "${FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/firecrawl-mcp" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "5,000 credits. $16 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Standard plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "100,000 credits. $83 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Extra credits on Hobby", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 5, "note": "one credit scrapes one page" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SideGuide Technologies, Inc. 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"2026-11-02T07:17:10.509911752Z", "fingerprint": "7deb7c02b7a6" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T01:08:56.660634122Z", "status": "ok", "protocol": "2026-07-28", "tools": [ { "name": "firecrawl_scrape", "title": "Firecrawl scrape", "description": "\nScrape one URL and return its content: markdown by default, or HTML, links, screenshots, branding data, a targeted answer, or JSON matching a supplied schema. Use it when the request identifies a page and needs its content or defined fields: the user gives a URL or names a page or PDF and wants it read or summarized, or wants prices, specs, contact details or a table from it. Use `firecrawl_search` when additional web sources are needed; on an authenticated session, `firecrawl_map` lists a site's URLs and `firecrawl_crawl` collects a set of pages.\n\nFirecrawl may serve recently indexed content; set `maxAge: 0` for a live fetch or a smaller `maxAge` to bound staleness. A successful response does not by itself confirm the page is still current. A named browser profile loads saved session data without saving changes to it. Authenticated responses can include a `metadata.scrapeId` for optional scrape feedback.\n\nOn an authenticated session, `firecrawl_search` and `firecrawl_find_tools` can discover providers for the same fields across several pages; a matching provider returns typed records in one call.\n\nWith `alexandria` in place of `url`, the tool runs catalogued provider capabilities instead of fetching a page. Some providers require accepted terms; when a response reports a terms requirement, direct the user to the Firecrawl dashboard URL in that response.\n", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "alexandria": { "anyOf": [ { "properties": { "capability": { "description": "Capability address as returned by search or discover, e.g. \"series/observations\".", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "options": { "additionalProperties": {}, "description": "Capability options as declared by its contract.", "propertyNames": { "type": "string" }, "type": "object" }, "provider": { "description": "Provider slug, e.g. \"fred\".", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "version": { "description": "Optional published workflow version. Omit to use the latest version.", "maxLength": 128, "minLength": 1, "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "provider", "capability" ], "type": "object" }, { "items": { "properties": { "capability": { "description": "Capability address as returned by search or discover, e.g. \"series/observations\".", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "options": { "additionalProperties": {}, "description": "Capability options as declared by its contract.", "propertyNames": { "type": "string" }, "type": "object" }, "provider": { "description": "Provider slug, e.g. \"fred\".", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "version": { "description": "Optional published workflow version. Omit to use the latest version.", "maxLength": 128, "minLength": 1, "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "provider", "capability" ], "type": "object" }, "maxItems": 10, "minItems": 1, "type": "array" } ], "description": "Catalogued Alexandria capability invocation, mutually exclusive with url. One {provider, capability, options} object or an array of 1-10, with contracts available through firecrawl_search or firecrawl_find_tools. Each call may include version to pin a published workflow; omitting it uses latest. Only requestId and timeout are supported alongside alexandria. The selected contract marks required inputs and any requiresOneOf groups (at least one member per group); it may include example.request/example.response and a key field under response (which may differ from records). Where pagination is declared, its fields govern paging with the same filters; catalogue next is separate from provider pagination. Returns per-capability results in data.alexandria with data, records, or an error with a code; individual capabilities can fail even when the outer response succeeds. Some providers require accepted terms; when a response reports a terms requirement, direct the user to the Firecrawl dashboard URL in that response." }, "conversationId": { "description": "conversationId from any earlier Firecrawl tool result in this conversation; after parallel calls, any one of theirs. Omit only on the first call of a conversation; the result returns one to pass on every later call.", "pattern": "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$", "type": "string" }, "domainTools": { "description": "URL mode only: include domain-matched Alexandria tools for the page in tools on the returned document. Ignored with alexandria.", "type": "boolean" }, "excludeTags": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "formats": { "items": { "enum": [ "markdown", "html", "rawHtml", "screenshot", "links", "images", "summary", "changeTracking", "branding", "json", "query", "audio" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "includeTags": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "jsonOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "prompt": { "type": "string" }, "schema": { "additionalProperties": {}, "propertyNames": { "type": "string" }, "type": "object" } }, "type": "object" }, "location": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "country": { "type": "string" }, "languages": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" } }, "type": "object" }, "lockdown": { "type": "boolean" }, "maxAge": { "type": "number" }, "mobile": { "type": "boolean" }, "objective": { "description": "The user's underlying goal for this call, in one sentence: what they are ultimately trying to accomplish, not a restatement of the URL or query. Reuse it across related calls. Avoid sensitive information.", "maxLength": 1000, "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "onlyMainContent": { "type": "boolean" }, "parsers": { "items": { "enum": [ "pdf" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "pdfOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "maxPages": { "maximum": 10000, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" } }, "type": "object" }, "profile": { "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Loads a saved browser profile without saving changes to it.", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name" ], "type": "object" }, "proxy": { "enum": [ "basic", "stealth", "enhanced", "auto" ], "type": "string" }, "queryOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "mode": { "default": "freeform", "enum": [ "directQuote", "freeform" ], "type": "string" }, "prompt": { "maxLength": 10000, "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "prompt" ], "type": "object" }, "redactPII": { "type": "boolean" }, "removeBase64Images": { "type": "boolean" }, "requestId": { "description": "Idempotency key bound to one Alexandria execution payload. Generated when omitted and returned with the result.", "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9._:-]{1,128}$", "type": "string" }, "screenshotOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "fullPage": { "type": "boolean" }, "quality": { "type": "number" }, "viewport": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "height": { "type": "number" }, "width": { "type": "number" } }, "required": [ "width", "height" ], "type": "object" } }, "type": "object" }, "skipTlsVerification": { "type": "boolean" }, "storeInCache": { "type": "boolean" }, "timeout": { "description": "Execution timeout in milliseconds.", "exclusiveMinimum": 0, "maximum": 9007199254740991, "type": "integer" }, "toolDetail": { "description": "URL mode only: domain discovery detail, summary by default; compact returns provider/capability/description, full includes contracts. Ignored with alexandria.", "enum": [ "compact", "summary", "full" ], "type": "string" }, "url": { "format": "uri", "type": "string" }, "waitFor": { "type": "number" }, "zeroDataRetention": { "type": "boolean" } }, "required": [ "objective" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "actions": { "description": "Results of the browser actions that ran during the scrape." }, "agent_hints": { "description": "Optional response guidance from the Firecrawl API.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "answer": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Targeted answer to the question that was asked of the page." }, "attributes": { "description": "Values collected by the requested attribute selectors." }, "audio": { "description": "Audio extracted from the page." }, "blocks": { "description": "Typed PDF layout blocks, when `parsers[].blocks` is set." }, "branding": { "description": "Branding data extracted from the page." }, "changeTracking": { "description": "Change-tracking comparison against the previous scrape." }, "conversationId": { "description": "Pass on later Firecrawl calls in this conversation.", "type": "string" }, "creditsCost": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Credits this call consumed." }, "data": { "description": "Alexandria mode: per-capability results in `data.alexandria`, each with `data`, `records`, or an `error`." }, "delivery": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "`retained` when the full result stayed server-side instead of being inlined." }, "error": { "description": "Error message or error object when the call did not succeed." }, "estimatedTokens": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Estimated token cost of the full result." }, "feedbackTool": { "description": "Pointer to the feedback tool for reporting how this result served the task." }, "highlights": { "description": "Highlighted passages from the page." }, "html": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Processed HTML of the page." }, "idleTtlSeconds": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Seconds a retained workspace stays available while idle." }, "images": { "description": "Images found on the page." }, "inlineTokenBudget": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Token budget above which a result is retained rather than inlined." }, "json": { "description": "Structured data matching the requested JSON schema or prompt." }, "links": { "description": "Links found on the page." }, "markdown": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Page content as markdown." }, "menu": { "description": "Menu data extracted from the page." }, "message": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Guidance that accompanies the result." }, "metadata": { "description": "Page metadata; authenticated responses can include `metadata.scrapeId` for scrape feedback." }, "nextTool": { "description": "A follow-up tool call (`{name, arguments}`) that continues or inspects this result." }, "pages": { "description": "Physical PDF pages, when `parsers[].pages` is set." }, "product": { "description": "Product data extracted from the page." }, "rawHtml": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Unprocessed HTML of the page." }, "receipt": { "description": "Billing receipt for the execution." }, "requestId": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Identifier of this Alexandria execution." }, "responseBytes": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Size of the full result in bytes." }, "scrape_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Identifier of the underlying scrape." }, "screenshot": { "description": "Screenshot of the page." }, "success": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Whether the API call succeeded." }, "summary": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Summary of the page content." }, "tokenEstimateMethod": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "How `estimatedTokens` was derived." }, "tools": { "description": "Domain-matched Alexandria tools for the page, when `domainTools` is set." }, "video": { "description": "Video extracted from the page." }, "warning": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Non-fatal warning about the result." }, "workspaceId": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Workspace holding a retained result, for inspection through virtual Bash." } }, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Firecrawl scrape" } }, { "name": "firecrawl_search", "title": "Firecrawl web search", "description": "\nSearch web, news, or image sources and return ranked results with query-relevant highlights. Use it for current information, or to list businesses, people, products, jobs or events with websites, prices or contacts. Each web result is a title, URL, and description; use `firecrawl_scrape` on a result URL when the excerpt is not enough.\n\nAuthenticated search also returns matching Alexandria data providers in data.tools (companies, people, jobs, finance and filings, public records and government spending, real estate, places and restaurants, retail and prices, package registries and developer data, news, research, and more). Prefer a provider over scraping pages when the task needs the same fields across several entities, exact figures or timestamps, provenance, or many records; use web results when they already answer the question. Authenticated searches always add alexandria to the sources, so sources: [\"web\"] also returns providers; domainTools: false turns off website-matched tools only.\n\nOn an authenticated session, tool matches describe available capabilities; `firecrawl_find_tools` returns their contracts and `firecrawl_scrape` with an `alexandria` body executes a selected capability. Keyless sessions get no Alexandria matches in data.tools.\n\nFor a programming question, add `categories: [\"developer\"]`; its hits return in `data.web` with `category: \"developer\"`. For a legal or regulatory question, `categories: [\"gov\"]` returns hits in `data.web` with `category: \"gov\"` and cannot be combined with other categories; authenticated sessions also have `firecrawl_gov_search` as the dedicated tool. Verify gov results' issuer, jurisdiction, status, and version before citing current law. `categories: [\"research\"]` restricts web results to research-affiliated websites; the `firecrawl_research_*` tools are a separate surface over paper abstracts and full text (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv). Returns source-type result groups and usage metadata. Authenticated responses can include an `id` for optional search feedback.\n", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "categories": { "description": "Limit results to specific source types. `research` restricts ordinary web results to research-affiliated websites and returns page snippets, which is separate from the `firecrawl_research_*` tools that search paper abstracts and full text across biomedical (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv) and arXiv literature; `pdf` searches PDF results; `developer` searches an index built for coding agents over public repositories, GitHub issues, merged pull requests, repository READMEs, and code documentation; `gov` searches the Government Index of US federal, state, and local legal and regulatory sources, the index behind firecrawl_gov_search, and cannot be combined with other categories; gov hits can include historical versions, bill text, agency guidance, and third-party reproductions, so verify the issuer, jurisdiction, enacted/effective status, and version before citing current governing law, clarify a missing jurisdiction or ambiguous as-of date, and use general search for non-US questions or missing coverage (no hits does not establish that no applicable law exists). `developer` and `gov` return hits in `data.web` with `category` set to their name; the other categories also filter `data.web`.", "items": { "enum": [ "research", "pdf", "developer", "gov" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "conversationId": { "description": "conversationId from any earlier Firecrawl tool result in this conversation; after parallel calls, any one of theirs. Omit only on the first call of a conversation; the result returns one to pass on every later call.", "pattern": "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$", "type": "string" }, "domainTools": { "description": "Include domain-matched tools for result URLs. Defaults to true when Alexandria is combined with web, news or images; semantic-only search leaves domain matching off.", "type": "boolean" }, "enterprise": { "items": { "enum": [ "default", "anon", "zdr" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "excludeDomains": { "description": "Hostnames to leave out of results. Mutually exclusive with includeDomains.", "items": { "maxLength": 253, "minLength": 1, "pattern": "^(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?\\.)+[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9]$", "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "filter": { "type": "string" }, "highlights": { "description": "Return query-relevant page excerpts for web and news results when available (default). Highlights appear in web `description` and news `snippet`; otherwise, original snippets are returned. Set to false to keep the original search snippets.", "type": "boolean" }, "includeDomains": { "description": "Hostnames to restrict results to. Mutually exclusive with excludeDomains.", "items": { "maxLength": 253, "minLength": 1, "pattern": "^(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?\\.)+[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9]$", "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "limit": { "maximum": 100, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "location": { "type": "string" }, "objective": { "description": "The user's underlying goal for this call, in one sentence: what they are ultimately trying to accomplish, not a restatement of the URL or query. Reuse it across related calls. Avoid sensitive information.", "maxLength": 5000, "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "query": { "description": "Query for web and semantic tool discovery. Operators include quoted phrases, `-term`, `site:host`, `inurl:term`, `intitle:term`, and `related:host`; the set is non-exhaustive. Catalogue browsing is available through firecrawl_find_tools.", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "scrapeOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Fetches the full page of every web result in the same call, and each fetched result is billed as a scrape. Leave it unset unless the task needs the full text of a few results: highlights usually answer, and firecrawl_scrape can fetch only the URLs you need. These fetches ignore maxAge, so use firecrawl_scrape for a live fetch. scrapeOptions fetches web pages, never Alexandria provider tools.", "properties": { "excludeTags": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "formats": { "items": { "enum": [ "markdown", "html", "rawHtml", "screenshot", "links", "images", "summary", "changeTracking", "branding", "json", "query", "audio" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "includeTags": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "jsonOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "prompt": { "type": "string" }, "schema": { "additionalProperties": {}, "propertyNames": { "type": "string" }, "type": "object" } }, "type": "object" }, "location": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "country": { "type": "string" }, "languages": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" } }, "type": "object" }, "lockdown": { "type": "boolean" }, "maxAge": { "type": "number" }, "mobile": { "type": "boolean" }, "onlyMainContent": { "type": "boolean" }, "parsers": { "items": { "enum": [ "pdf" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "pdfOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "maxPages": { "maximum": 10000, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" } }, "type": "object" }, "profile": { "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Loads a saved browser profile without saving changes to it.", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name" ], "type": "object" }, "proxy": { "enum": [ "basic", "stealth", "enhanced", "auto" ], "type": "string" }, "queryOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "mode": { "default": "freeform", "enum": [ "directQuote", "freeform" ], "type": "string" }, "prompt": { "maxLength": 10000, "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "prompt" ], "type": "object" }, "redactPII": { "type": "boolean" }, "removeBase64Images": { "type": "boolean" }, "screenshotOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "fullPage": { "type": "boolean" }, "quality": { "type": "number" }, "viewport": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "height": { "type": "number" }, "width": { "type": "number" } }, "required": [ "width", "height" ], "type": "object" } }, "type": "object" }, "skipTlsVerification": { "type": "boolean" }, "storeInCache": { "type": "boolean" }, "waitFor": { "type": "number" }, "zeroDataRetention": { "type": "boolean" } }, "type": "object" }, "sources": { "description": "Search sources; authenticated sessions default to web + alexandria, keyless sessions to web only. Authenticated searches always add alexandria to the sources, so sources: [\"web\"] also returns providers; domainTools: false turns off website-matched tools only. enterprise zdr or anon searches do not add it. Use [\"alexandria\"] alone for provider discovery without web results.", "items": { "anyOf": [ { "enum": [ "web", "images", "news", "alexandria", "exchange" ], "type": "string" }, { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "type": { "enum": [ "web", "images", "news", "alexandria", "exchange" ], "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "type" ], "type": "object" } ] }, "type": "array" }, "tbs": { "type": "string" }, "toolDetail": { "description": "Compact by default. Compact returns only provider, capability and description; full includes contracts. Inspect selected compact tools with firecrawl_find_tools providers and capabilities.", "enum": [ "compact", "summary", "full" ], "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query", "objective" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "agent_hints": { "description": "Optional response guidance from the Firecrawl API.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "conversationId": { "description": "Pass on later Firecrawl calls in this conversation.", "type": "string" }, "creditsUsed": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Credits this search consumed." }, "data": { "description": "Ranked results grouped by source, such as `web`, `news`, `images`, and `alexandria`. Each result carries its `source` and a 1-indexed `position` within that group; pass those pairs to `firecrawl_search_feedback`." }, "error": { "description": "Error message or error object when the call did not succeed." }, "feedbackTool": { "description": "Pointer to the feedback tool for this search." }, "id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Search identifier, for optional `firecrawl_search_feedback`." }, "nextTool": { "description": "A follow-up tool call that continues this search." }, "success": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Whether the API call succeeded." }, "tools": { "description": "Domain-matched Alexandria tools for the results." }, "warning": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Non-fatal warning about the result." } }, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Firecrawl web search" } }, { "name": "firecrawl_parse", "title": "Firecrawl file parsing", "description": "\nParse one supported document into markdown, HTML, links, summary, targeted answers, or JSON matching a schema. Supported inputs include common HTML, PDF, Word, RTF, OpenDocument, and spreadsheet files; PDF parsing can be bounded with `pdfOptions.maxPages`.\n\nLocal MCP reads `filePath` from the server filesystem. Hosted MCP uses two calls: first provide `filePath` to receive upload instructions, upload locally, then call again with the returned `uploadRef`; do not send both fields together. Remote web URLs belong in `firecrawl_scrape`.\n\nSet `redactPII` to request redaction of personally identifiable information in the returned content. `zeroDataRetention` requires an eligible authenticated account; omit it for anonymous keyless use. Returns upload instructions for hosted phase one or parsed document content for the final call. Authenticated final responses can include a `data.metadata.scrapeId` for optional parse feedback.\n", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "contentType": { "description": "Phase 1 MIME type override. If omitted, the server infers it from the file extension without reading the file.", "type": "string" }, "conversationId": { "description": "conversationId from any earlier Firecrawl tool result in this conversation; after parallel calls, any one of theirs. Omit only on the first call of a conversation; the result returns one to pass on every later call.", "pattern": "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$", "type": "string" }, "declaredSizeBytes": { "description": "Optional phase 1 size declaration. Hosted MCP does not stat the file; provide this only if the caller already knows it.", "exclusiveMinimum": 0, "maximum": 9007199254740991, "type": "integer" }, "excludeTags": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "filePath": { "description": "Phase 1 only: path to the local file on the caller/harness machine. Hosted MCP will not read or stat this path; it is used only to produce upload instructions.", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "formats": { "items": { "enum": [ "markdown", "html", "rawHtml", "links", "summary", "json", "query" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "includeTags": { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "jsonOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "prompt": { "type": "string" }, "schema": { "additionalProperties": {}, "propertyNames": { "type": "string" }, "type": "object" } }, "type": "object" }, "maxAge": { "description": "Ignored: parse never reuses or stores indexed content.", "type": "number" }, "onlyMainContent": { "type": "boolean" }, "parsers": { "items": { "enum": [ "pdf" ], "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "pdfOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "maxPages": { "maximum": 10000, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" } }, "type": "object" }, "proxy": { "enum": [ "basic", "auto" ], "type": "string" }, "queryOptions": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "mode": { "default": "freeform", "enum": [ "directQuote", "freeform" ], "type": "string" }, "prompt": { "maxLength": 10000, "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "prompt" ], "type": "object" }, "redactPII": { "type": "boolean" }, "removeBase64Images": { "type": "boolean" }, "skipTlsVerification": { "type": "boolean" }, "storeInCache": { "type": "boolean" }, "uploadRef": { "description": "Phase 2 only: short-lived upload reference returned by phase 1 after the local PUT upload completes.", "minLength": 1, "type": "string" }, "zeroDataRetention": { "type": "boolean" } }, "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "agent_hints": { "description": "Optional response guidance from the Firecrawl API.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "conversationId": { "description": "Pass on later Firecrawl calls in this conversation.", "type": "string" }, "data": { "description": "Parsed document content; can include `data.metadata.scrapeId` for parse feedback." }, "error": { "description": "Error message or error object when the call did not succeed." }, "message": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Guidance for the next call." }, "mode": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Which phase of the hosted flow produced this response." }, "nextToolCall": { "description": "Hosted phase one: the second `firecrawl_parse` call to make once the upload succeeds, as `{name, arguments}`." }, "notes": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Hosted phase one: constraints on completing the upload flow." }, "raw": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Response body when it was not JSON." }, "success": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Whether the API call succeeded." }, "upload": { "additionalProperties": false, "description": "Hosted phase one: how to upload the local file.", "properties": { "command": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Local command that performs the upload. It carries no Firecrawl API key." }, "expiresAt": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "When the upload URL expires." }, "fields": { "description": "Form fields the upload request must send, for a POST upload." }, "headers": { "description": "Headers the upload request must send." }, "maxSizeBytes": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Largest file the upload URL accepts." }, "method": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "HTTP method for the upload." }, "uploadRef": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Reference to pass back on the second call." }, "uploadUrl": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "URL to upload the local file to." } }, "type": "object" }, "warning": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Non-fatal warning about the result." } }, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": false, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Firecrawl file parsing" } } ], "schemaTokens": 7108, "changedAt": "2026-09-28T21:55:47.203996335Z", "check": { "checker": "anchor-check/1.0", "totalTokens": 7108, "counts": { "error": 0, "note": 0, "warn": 6 }, "findings": [ { "rule": "TC07", "severity": "warn", "tool": "firecrawl_search", "message": "the description is about 512 tokens", "fix": "Keep the description to what a model needs to choose and call the tool; move the manual to a resource or the docs." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "firecrawl_parse", "message": "19 parameters without a description: excludeTags, formats, includeTags, jsonOptions, jsonOptions.prompt, jsonOptions.schema and 13 more", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "firecrawl_scrape", "message": "none of its 29 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "firecrawl_search", "message": "none of its 16 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC22", "severity": "warn", "tool": "firecrawl_scrape", "message": "the definition is about 2,919 tokens", "fix": "Trim the description and parameter docs, or split the tool." }, { "rule": "TC22", "severity": "warn", "tool": "firecrawl_search", "message": "the definition is about 2,676 tokens", "fix": "Trim the description and parameter docs, or split the tool." } ] } }, "github": { "repo": "firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:48:34.279225163Z", "stars": 7748, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-02T02:43:31Z", "openIssues": 102, "openPRs": 82, "issuesOpened90d": 27, "issuesClosed90d": 3, "prsMerged90d": 164, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 33, "failure": 1, "other": 16, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-11-02T02:46:04Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 8 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:00.308440136Z" } }, "answer": "Firecrawl MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "outcrawl", "name": "Outcrawl", "vendor": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "vendorUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Outcrawl is a hosted web layer for AI agents with scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers over CDP and agent runs on one credit balance, reached through a REST API, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI and a remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json", "dns": "outcrawl.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/outcrawlai/scout", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Two bearer credentials. An API key shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` is minted in the console, shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to one workspace and revocable within a minute; it works on the REST API and the MCP server as `Authorization: Bearer`, with no per-key scopes or read-only keys documented. An OAuth 2.1 access token `oat_...` comes from signing in, through the authorization code flow with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration for MCP clients (the server at https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp answers 401 with protected-resource metadata naming https://outcrawl.ai/api/auth) or the RFC 8628 device flow for the CLI, with scopes `api` and `offline_access`, access tokens of one hour and refresh for 30 days while in use; removing a member from a workspace cuts their tokens off at once. Console sign-in is Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, on a person's first workspace only. Builder $49 a month for 10,000 credits (5 browsers, 300 requests a minute), Pro $199 for 50,000 (25, 1,500), Scale $799 for 250,000 (100, 6,000), Enterprise custom with a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA. Rates in credits are the same on every plan, 1 a page for scrape, crawl and rendered search results, 5 per 10 search results, 1 a minute of browser time, 2,000 a GB of proxy traffic, 1 a monitor check, and agent runs at model usage plus browser time plus proxy usage, about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate. Extra credits cost $49.00 per 10,000 on Builder and Free, $39.80 on Pro and $31.96 on Scale, never expire, and auto top-up is capped monthly. Every response carries a `usage` object with its cost; a cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl keeps billing the pages it fetched, and a search every engine refuses bills nothing (https://outcrawl.ai/pricing and https://outcrawl.ai/docs/billing/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "$4.90 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, llms-full.txt, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-11-02). Plans and top-ups are paid by card through Stripe in the console.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 29, "popularity": { "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 53, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.search", "browser.hosted", "browser.control", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "python", "typescript", "proxies", "browser", "agents", "credits", "free-tier", "no-card", "freemium", "no-status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 456, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.", "bestFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "strengths": [ "Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page or browser minute and 5 credits per 10 search results, with the dollar cost per plan and every response carrying its own `usage`", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, usable over the API, the SDKs, the CLI and MCP", "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, device code for the CLI, a revocation endpoint and one-hour access tokens, beside workspace-scoped keys shown once and stored as a digest", "A closed error union in one envelope with a documented list of codes safe to retry, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, and MCP errors that carry a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag", "MCP tool descriptions that each name what the tool is not for and which tool is, with secrets and integrations kept off the MCP surface and agent runs capped by a required or defaulted budget", "Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is published under Apache-2.0 with its tests, and the SDKs and MCP package are MIT" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer", "The OpenAPI file types no request or response body; its error enum has 45 codes while the errors page lists 31 and llms.txt says 24, and the registry is called 62, 50 and 46 rows on different pages", "No idempotency key or safe-retry rule for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, and no Retry-After header; `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait", "No changelog or release notes; the only dated record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and the release repository, and the @outcrawl/mcp package has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September while the SDKs reached 0.4.15", "Session recordings are on by default and keep request bodies, cookies and form data, with the retention period shown only in the console and not published", "A cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl still bills the pages fetched, and monitor notifications are never retried" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.", "Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.", "Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.", "Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.", "Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.", "Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 54, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @outcrawl/sdk", "http": "curl https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OUTCRAWL_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http outcrawl https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "outcrawl": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/outcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Scrape or crawl page (Builder)", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 4.9, "note": "1 credit a page; $3.98 per 1,000 on Pro and about $3.20 on Scale" }, { "item": "Search results (Builder)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.45, "note": "5 credits per 10 results, pro rata; reading a result page adds 1 credit a page" }, { "item": "Browser session (Builder)", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.294, "note": "1 credit a minute, plus proxy traffic" }, { "item": "Proxy traffic (Builder)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 9.8, "note": "2,000 credits a decimal GB on browser sessions and agent runs" }, { "item": "Credit (Builder, top-up or plan)", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0049, "note": "$49.00 per 10,000; $0.00398 on Pro and $0.003196 on Scale; agent runs cost about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate" }, { "item": "Builder plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "10,000 credits, 5 concurrent browsers, 300 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "50,000 credits, 25 concurrent browsers, 1,500 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 799, "note": "250,000 credits, 100 concurrent browsers, 6,000 requests a minute" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Aeonmind LLC (trading as Outcrawl)", "domain": "outcrawl.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy, both last updated 1 November 2026, name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, governed by Delaware law with disputes in Delaware courts; the privacy policy calls it a United States company. No postal address is given. The footer reads © 2026 Aeonmind LLC and Scout's licence notice names the same company.", "RDAP at rdap.identitydigital.services gives a registration date of 2026-08-28 for outcrawl.ai, last changed 2026-09-02, with Cloudflare nameservers. The REST API and the MCP server are on api.outcrawl.ai and the OAuth authorization server on outcrawl.ai.", "firstReleased is 2026-09-08, the first npm publish of @outcrawl/sdk 0.1.0, which is also the day the outcrawlai GitHub organisation was created; PyPI's first release followed on 22 September 2026 and the Wayback Machine's first copy of the home page is 15 October 2026. lastRelease is 2026-10-20, version 0.4.15 on npm and PyPI.", "https://outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://api.outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. The security page has a responsible disclosure section with security@outcrawl.ai, a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement for good-faith reports. /status, /changelog, /blog and /about on outcrawl.ai answer 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer; no changelog or release notes exist on either host.", "robots.txt on outcrawl.ai allows every named crawler and `*`, disallows /console, /admin, /api/ and /og/ (except PNG and JPG files), and carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.outcrawl.ai disallows /play/, /replay/, /v1/, /mcp, /connect, /agent, /internal/ and /operator/; none of those paths was fetched, and the OAuth metadata documents were read as the listing check allowed.", "The vendor's own benchmark claim of 92.5 per cent pages reached, the 'orders of magnitude' cost language in tool descriptions and the human input model measurements are the vendor's claims. No MCP registry entry exists for outcrawl (search answers an empty list)." ], "score": 54 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.json", "live": { "slug": "outcrawl", "probe": { "target": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 326, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 415, "p95ms24h": 695, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk", "version": "0.4.15", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:27.502289569Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl", "version": "0.4.15", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:28.458855358Z" } ], "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 54, "pypiWeekly": 36, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 33, "category": "reliability", "leads": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Better Stack status page at status.firecrawl.dev with history (20). Four incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026, all partial degradations of api.firecrawl.dev, the longest 56 minutes on the /interact `prompt` field on 27 August (06:00 to 06:56 UTC in the feed) and the others 7, 16 and 46 minutes, with none after 15 September. The 20 July /interact incident has left the window (20). Rate limits published per plan and endpoint, from 10 scrapes a minute on Free to 10,000 on Scale, plus concurrent browsers and a per-IP daily cap for keyless use, re-read on 1 November (15). The Errors reference, linked from the rate-limit page, says 429s carry `Retry-After` when available, marks every error retryable or not, and gives backoff advice per code. No idempotency keys for calls that start crawl, agent or monitor jobs (13 of 15). SLA on Enterprise only, per the pricing page, with no terms published (0). GA (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 78.", "b": "Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45." }, "scores": { "a": 78, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "schema", "leads": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Public OpenAPI at docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json (and v1), and zod schemas on every MCP tool (25). llms.txt and Markdown docs (10). The README and server instructions say when not to use a tool, for example to look elsewhere when a browser session must be driven step by step across many calls, and 3.33.4 added when-to-use sentences to the search and scrape descriptions (18 of 20). Typed inputs with enums, but open issue #325 counts 132 parameters with no description and #373 reports a published schema that disagrees with the API, per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November. 3.35.0 briefly advertised record-typed inputs as closed empty objects, fixed in 3.36.0 the next day (11 of 15). Examples throughout, keyless failures return structured recovery payloads with `next_actions` and `signup_url`, and an Errors reference lists each HTTP status and error string with cause, remedy and whether to retry (15 of 15). A CHANGELOG and firecrawl.dev/changelog. The CHANGELOG now has dated entries for 3.29.0 to 3.36.0, but still skips 3.22 to 3.24 and 3.26 to 3.28 and lists 3.25.0 as unreleased (12 of 15).", "b": "API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 19, "category": "transparency", "leads": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "MIT (30). Zero data retention on Enterprise and a DPA from Standard up, but the privacy policy, re-read on 1 November, still dates from 26 December 2024, keeps personal data until you ask for deletion and gives no retention period for scraped content (12 of 30). The v1 endpoints are kept as legacy alongside v2 and the pricing change of 4 September 2026 was dated, but we found no deprecation policy (8 of 20). Data stored in the United States, and Stripe, PostHog, Crisp and Vercel Analytics are named, with no full subprocessor list (10 of 20).", "b": "Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, pricing page or agent onboarding guide, re-read on 1 November (0). Plans are public with per-endpoint credit costs (1 a page, search 2 per 10 results, +4 for JSON formats), and $5 top-ups only on paid plans, so between plan-only and per-unit (15 of 20). Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card (20). The hosted keyless endpoint gives scrape, search and parse with no signup, but crawl, map and agent need a key. The agent onboarding guide adds key routes through Stripe Projects and, on supported platforms, a WorkOS ID-JAG assertion, both of which start from a person's existing login (15 of 20).", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the docs, the pricing pages or the terms (0). Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page, 5 credits per 10 search results, 1 credit a browser minute, 2,000 credits a GB and 1 credit a monitor check, with the dollar rate per plan ($4.90 per 1,000 credits on Builder down to about $3.20 on Scale), top-up prices per 10,000 and an estimate of about 15 credits a minute for agent runs (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, on a person's first workspace (20). A person signs in with Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA, and MCP's OAuth consent needs that browser sign-in; no keyless route, no programmatic key creation (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "27 tools in the full profile by the README's count (28 on the hosted endpoint with a key, per the contract snapshot), 3 on the keyless endpoint and 9 on the search-only endpoint, and env flags drop the feedback tools (23 of 25, the 11 to 30 band plus 8 for fixed subsets). Format selection, main-content filtering, page limits on map and crawl, and results over 20,000 estimated tokens handed off to retained storage instead of inline (20). Recovery payloads with next actions, and since 3.35.0 API refusals carry a machine-readable `code`, `status` and `retryAfterSeconds` in structuredContent, but schema mismatches reported in open issues (17 of 20). readOnlyHint or destructiveHint on all 28 tools of the hosted full profile, with monitor delete and interact stop marked destructive, and since 3.35.0 idempotentHint on the crawl, agent, interact and monitor tools. No idempotency keys for crawl or agent jobs (17 of 20). One required argument on most tools, and official SDKs in Python and Node (15).", "b": "API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83." }, "scores": { "a": 92, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "firecrawl-mcp", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "firecrawl-mcp 3.36.0 on 27 October 2026, matching the registry (30). 43 version bumps in the 90 days from 3 August to 1 November, 12 of them since 17 October (20). Reported bugs from July and August (#325, #357, #373) show no fix in the repository's commits to 29 October. Issue states and reply times couldn't be read on 1 November (12 of 25, per the 1 October check). io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server at 3.36.0 in the official registry under a GitHub-verified namespace, published 27 October and marked latest (15). CI builds and tests on push and pull request to main, with npm trusted publishing and, since 23 October, a signed container image (10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 10 = 87.", "b": "@outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 87, "b": 79 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Firecrawl (Mendable)", "b": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp", "b": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "not published", "b": "$2.45 per 1,000 requests", "name": "Price for web search" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "27", "b": "29", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-27", "b": "2026-10-20", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2024-11-05", "b": "2026-11-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2024-12-26", "b": "2026-11-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk", "b": "948 stars, 53 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (8)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Firecrawl MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Firecrawl MCP or Outcrawl?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Firecrawl MCP and Outcrawl need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Firecrawl MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp and Outcrawl at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Firecrawl MCP and Outcrawl without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Firecrawl MCP is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Outcrawl.", "question": "Are Firecrawl MCP and Outcrawl open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 71", "Agent ergonomics, 92 against 83", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 79", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 56" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need the whole pipeline (find URLs, scrape to markdown, crawl, monitor) from one server, and for trying without an account.", "slug": "firecrawl-mcp", "watchFor": "No x402 or other machine payment" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where Firecrawl MCP loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "slug": "outcrawl", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer" } ], "history": { "firecrawl-mcp": [ { "causes": [ "event" ], "date": "2026-11-01", "delta": -3, "from": 78, "fromGrade": "A", "to": 75, "toGrade": "BB" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.1, "from": 77.9, "fromGrade": "BB", "to": 78, "toGrade": "A" }, { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-17", "delta": 2.6, "from": 75.3, "fromGrade": "BB", "to": 77.9, "toGrade": "BB" } ], "outcrawl": null }, "job": { "capability": "web.search", "name": "Web search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl" }, 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingant" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 33, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 78, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "outcrawl": 45, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 91, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "outcrawl": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 92, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "outcrawl": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 70, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "outcrawl": 66, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 50, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "outcrawl": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 87, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "outcrawl": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "firecrawl-mcp", "firecrawl-mcp": 75, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "outcrawl": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Firecrawl MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do web search.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [ { "title": "Turn a documentation page into Markdown with Firecrawl", "tool": "firecrawl-mcp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/firecrawl-mcp/" } ], "verdicts": { "firecrawl-mcp": "Keyless hosted endpoint with scrape, search and parse, plus OAuth and a search-only endpoint. No x402 or other machine payment.", "outcrawl": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.min.md" }, "markdown": "Firecrawl MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do web search.\n\n- Firecrawl MCP: grade BB, 75/100, rank #62 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/firecrawl-mcp.json\n- Outcrawl: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #456 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 284 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Firecrawl MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that need the whole pipeline (find URLs, scrape to markdown, crawl, monitor) from one server, and for trying without an account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 78 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 92 against 83\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No x402 or other machine payment\n\n### Outcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Firecrawl MCP loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Firecrawl MCP +33\n\n- Firecrawl MCP (78): Better Stack status page at status.firecrawl.dev with history (20). Four incidents in the 90 days to 1 November 2026, all partial degradations of api.firecrawl.dev, the longest 56 minutes on the /interact `prompt` field on 27 August (06:00 to 06:56 UTC in the feed) and the others 7, 16 and 46 minutes, with none after 15 September. The 20 July /interact incident has left the window (20). Rate limits published per plan and endpoint, from 10 scrapes a minute on Free to 10,000 on Scale, plus concurrent browsers and a per-IP daily cap for keyless use, re-read on 1 November (15). The Errors reference, linked from the rate-limit page, says 429s carry `Retry-After` when available, marks every error retryable or not, and gives backoff advice per code. No idempotency keys for calls that start crawl, agent or monitor jobs (13 of 15). SLA on Enterprise only, per the pricing page, with no terms published (0). GA (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 78.\n- Outcrawl (45): Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Firecrawl MCP +20\n\n- Firecrawl MCP (91): Public OpenAPI at docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json (and v1), and zod schemas on every MCP tool (25). llms.txt and Markdown docs (10). The README and server instructions say when not to use a tool, for example to look elsewhere when a browser session must be driven step by step across many calls, and 3.33.4 added when-to-use sentences to the search and scrape descriptions (18 of 20). Typed inputs with enums, but open issue #325 counts 132 parameters with no description and #373 reports a published schema that disagrees with the API, per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November. 3.35.0 briefly advertised record-typed inputs as closed empty objects, fixed in 3.36.0 the next day (11 of 15). Examples throughout, keyless failures return structured recovery payloads with `next_actions` and `signup_url`, and an Errors reference lists each HTTP status and error string with cause, remedy and whether to retry (15 of 15). A CHANGELOG and firecrawl.dev/changelog. The CHANGELOG now has dated entries for 3.29.0 to 3.36.0, but still skips 3.22 to 3.24 and 3.26 to 3.28 and lists 3.25.0 as unreleased (12 of 15).\n- Outcrawl (71): API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Firecrawl MCP +19\n\n- Firecrawl MCP (75): MIT (30). Zero data retention on Enterprise and a DPA from Standard up, but the privacy policy, re-read on 1 November, still dates from 26 December 2024, keeps personal data until you ask for deletion and gives no retention period for scraped content (12 of 30). The v1 endpoints are kept as legacy alongside v2 and the pricing change of 4 September 2026 was dated, but we found no deprecation policy (8 of 20). Data stored in the United States, and Stripe, PostHog, Crisp and Vercel Analytics are named, with no full subprocessor list (10 of 20).\n- Outcrawl (56): Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Firecrawl MCP +10\n\n- Firecrawl MCP (50): No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, pricing page or agent onboarding guide, re-read on 1 November (0). Plans are public with per-endpoint credit costs (1 a page, search 2 per 10 results, +4 for JSON formats), and $5 top-ups only on paid plans, so between plan-only and per-unit (15 of 20). Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card (20). The hosted keyless endpoint gives scrape, search and parse with no signup, but crawl, map and agent need a key. The agent onboarding guide adds key routes through Stripe Projects and, on supported platforms, a WorkOS ID-JAG assertion, both of which start from a person's existing login (15 of 20).\n- Outcrawl (40): No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the docs, the pricing pages or the terms (0). Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page, 5 credits per 10 search results, 1 credit a browser minute, 2,000 credits a GB and 1 credit a monitor check, with the dollar rate per plan ($4.90 per 1,000 credits on Builder down to about $3.20 on Scale), top-up prices per 10,000 and an estimate of about 15 credits a minute for agent runs (20). Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, on a person's first workspace (20). A person signs in with Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA, and MCP's OAuth consent needs that browser sign-in; no keyless route, no programmatic key creation (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Firecrawl MCP +9\n\n- Firecrawl MCP (92): 27 tools in the full profile by the README's count (28 on the hosted endpoint with a key, per the contract snapshot), 3 on the keyless endpoint and 9 on the search-only endpoint, and env flags drop the feedback tools (23 of 25, the 11 to 30 band plus 8 for fixed subsets). Format selection, main-content filtering, page limits on map and crawl, and results over 20,000 estimated tokens handed off to retained storage instead of inline (20). Recovery payloads with next actions, and since 3.35.0 API refusals carry a machine-readable `code`, `status` and `retryAfterSeconds` in structuredContent, but schema mismatches reported in open issues (17 of 20). readOnlyHint or destructiveHint on all 28 tools of the hosted full profile, with monitor delete and interact stop marked destructive, and since 3.35.0 idempotentHint on the crawl, agent, interact and monitor tools. No idempotency keys for crawl or agent jobs (17 of 20). One required argument on most tools, and official SDKs in Python and Node (15).\n- Outcrawl (83): API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Firecrawl MCP +8\n\n- Firecrawl MCP (87): firecrawl-mcp 3.36.0 on 27 October 2026, matching the registry (30). 43 version bumps in the 90 days from 3 August to 1 November, 12 of them since 17 October (20). Reported bugs from July and August (#325, #357, #373) show no fix in the repository's commits to 29 October. Issue states and reply times couldn't be read on 1 November (12 of 25, per the 1 October check). io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server at 3.36.0 in the official registry under a GitHub-verified namespace, published 27 October and marked latest (15). CI builds and tests on push and pull request to main, with npm trusted publishing and, since 23 October, a signed container image (10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 10 = 87.\n- Outcrawl (79): @outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Firecrawl MCP | Outcrawl | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 78 | 45 | Firecrawl MCP +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 71 | Firecrawl MCP +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 83 | Firecrawl MCP +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 66 | Firecrawl MCP +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 40 | Firecrawl MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 79 | Firecrawl MCP +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 56 | Firecrawl MCP +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75 · BB** | **62.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Firecrawl MCP | Outcrawl |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Firecrawl (Mendable) | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | not published | $2.45 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror |\n| Tools exposed | 27 | 29 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-20 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-11-05 | 2026-11-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-12-26 | 2026-11-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Firecrawl MCP\n\n- -3.0 on 1 November 2026 (A to BB): negative event\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026 (BB to A): checklist\n- +2.6 on 17 October 2026: new evidence\n\n### Outcrawl\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Firecrawl MCP.** Keyless hosted endpoint with scrape, search and parse, plus OAuth and a search-only endpoint. No x402 or other machine payment.\n\n**Outcrawl.** One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Firecrawl MCP\n\n1. Use `firecrawl_map` to list URLs, then scrape the few you need instead of crawling a whole site\n2. On the keyless endpoint only scrape, search and parse work. A 429 carries a `signup_url` for the human\n3. Ask for markdown only. JSON, question and highlight formats add 4 credits a page\n4. Poll `firecrawl_check_crawl_status` rather than waiting on a long crawl inside one call; `firecrawl_crawl` and `firecrawl_agent` are marked not idempotent, so don't retry them blindly\n5. Check the URL before scraping. Dead pages still cost a credit\n6. On a 429 wait for `Retry-After` when present, read `error.code` and `retryAfterSeconds` in structuredContent, and check the Errors table's retryable column before retrying\n\n### Outcrawl\n\n1. Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.\n2. Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.\n3. Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.\n4. Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.\n5. Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.\n6. Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key.\n\n## Tutorials\n\n- [Turn a documentation page into Markdown with Firecrawl](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/firecrawl-mcp/), for Firecrawl MCP\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Firecrawl MCP or Outcrawl?\n\nFirecrawl MCP scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Outcrawl's 62.4 (B), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Firecrawl MCP and Outcrawl need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Firecrawl MCP and Outcrawl without installing anything?\n\nYes. Firecrawl MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp and Outcrawl at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1.\n\n### Are Firecrawl MCP and Outcrawl open source?\n\nFirecrawl MCP is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Outcrawl.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"firecrawl-mcp\", \"b\": \"outcrawl\"}`. 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