# Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapeAtlas (slim)

> Firecrawl MCP scores 78 (A) to ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Firecrawl MCP scores 78 (A) on agent readiness against ScrapeAtlas's 63 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ScrapeAtlas leads on payments & pricing. Both do extraction.

- Firecrawl MCP: A 78, rank #22 of 1226 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- ScrapeAtlas: B 63, rank #481 of 1226 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeatlas.min.md
- Firecrawl MCP, good for Agents that need the whole pipeline (find URLs, scrape to markdown, crawl, monitor) from one server, and for trying without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 42; Agent ergonomics, 92 against 76; Security & auth, 70 against 55; Maintenance & community, 87 against 70; Transparency & trust, 75 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- ScrapeAtlas, good for Agents that need structured public data from a named social, video, forum, marketplace or prediction-market platform, such as a creator's profile and recent posts, a thread's comments, a product's reviews or a market's order book, paid per successful request without a subscription. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 55 against 50. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Firecrawl MCP | ScrapeAtlas |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 78 | 42 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 91 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 92 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Firecrawl MCP | ScrapeAtlas |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Firecrawl (Mendable) | OD. Media & Technology LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` | `https://api.scrapeatlas.com` |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repository |
| Tools exposed | 27 | 373 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` | `io.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlas` |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-11-05 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-12-26 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |