# Firecrawl MCP vs SerpKite (slim)

> Firecrawl MCP scores 75.5 (BB) on agent readiness against SerpKite's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do web search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Firecrawl MCP scores 75.5 (BB) on agent readiness against SerpKite's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do web search.

- Firecrawl MCP: BB 75.5, rank #32 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- SerpKite: B 64.8, rank #179 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpkite.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, 70 against 65; Security & auth, 67 against 37; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40; Maintenance & community, 87 against 80. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source; No incidents deducted, where SerpKite loses 3 points for them.
- SerpKite, good for Agents that want Google results and the top pages as Markdown in one call at a low per-1,000 price, with spend caps per key. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Firecrawl MCP | SerpKite |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 92 | 92 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Firecrawl MCP | SerpKite |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Firecrawl (Mendable) | SerpKite (Anastasia Klimova, trading as SerpKite) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` | `https://api.serpkite.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under SerpKite's terms of service. The SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Go, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK) and the MCP connection repository on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 26 | 14 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` | `io.github.SerpKite/serpkite` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-04 |
| Popularity | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk | 809 npm/wk, 376 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | 3.5/5 (2) |