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Firecrawl MCP vs Scrapewise

Firecrawl MCP scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do web search.

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Firecrawl MCPFirecrawl (Mendable) · MCP server BB75.3/100#53 of 1098 ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098

Which one, for what

Firecrawl MCP BB

Best 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, 70 against 45
  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 79
  • Agent ergonomics, 92 against 86
  • Security & auth, 67 against 58
  • Payments & pricing, 50 against 40
  • Maintenance & community, 87 against 79
  • Transparency & trust, 74 against 53

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

No x402 or other machine payment

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runFirecrawl MCPScrapewiseEdge
Reliability16%207045Firecrawl MCP +25
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28879Firecrawl MCP +9
Agent ergonomics13%16.29286Firecrawl MCP +6
Security & auth14%17.56758Firecrawl MCP +9
Payments & pricing10%12.55040Firecrawl MCP +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88779Firecrawl MCP +8
Transparency & trust7%8.87453Firecrawl MCP +21
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 75.3/100B 62.5/100

Facts side by side

FactFirecrawl MCPScrapewise
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorFirecrawl (Mendable)BEBOTECH OÜ
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcphttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp
Transportsstdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
Price for web searchnot published$1.68 per 1,000 requests
x402nono
LicenceMITnone
Tools exposed2614
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-serverai.scrapewise/scrapewise
Last release2026-10-012026-10-15
Terms last updated2024-11-052025-10-29
Privacy policy last updated2024-12-262025-10-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (8)none

Verdicts

Firecrawl MCP

Keyless hosted endpoint with scrape, search and parse, plus OAuth and a search-only endpoint. No x402 or other machine payment.

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

Before you call either

Firecrawl MCP

  1. Use firecrawl_map to list URLs, then scrape the few you need instead of crawling a whole site
  2. On the keyless endpoint only scrape, search and parse work. A 429 carries a signup_url for the human
  3. Ask for markdown only. JSON, question and highlight formats add 4 credits a page
  4. Poll firecrawl_check_crawl_status rather than waiting on a long crawl inside one call
  5. Check the URL before scraping. Dead pages still cost a credit

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

Try them: tutorials for agents

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Firecrawl MCP or Scrapewise?

Firecrawl MCP scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Scrapewise's 62.5 (B), and leads in every scored category.

Do Firecrawl MCP and Scrapewise need an API key?

Firecrawl MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Scrapewise needs an API key.

Can an agent call Firecrawl MCP and Scrapewise without installing anything?

Yes. Firecrawl MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp and Scrapewise at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp.

Are Firecrawl MCP and Scrapewise open source?

Firecrawl MCP is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Scrapewise.

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