https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Firecrawl MCP. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:02:00 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#live-20261004T155017-page Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:50:17 +0000 page 1 line added, 1 removed. + 188.5KSign up https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#live-20261004T154447-page Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:44:47 +0000 page 1 line added, 1 removed. + 188.5KSign up https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#live-20261004T154447-page Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:44:47 +0000 page 1 line added, 1 removed. + 188.5KSign up https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#live-20261004T154443-page Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:44:43 +0000 page 1 line added, 1 removed. + 188.5KSign up https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#live-20261003T160245-version Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:02:45 +0000 version https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1091 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1091 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Three tools open with no account at all. The hosted `/v2/mcp` URL with no credential is the keyless tier, which takes scrape, search and parse, rate-limited per IP, and the files give no number for its daily cap. Crawl, map and agent need a key, and that's two steps for a person. Sign up (Free is 1,000 credits a month, no card), then use OAuth or a Bearer key. A 429 on the keyless tier carries a `signup_url`, so the agent knows where to send someone. An 8-tool search-only endpoint has its own OAuth identity. There's no x402 in the docs, README or pricing page, so nothing an agent could pay for on its own. Four because the keyless door opens on three useful tools, and the full set needs a person. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1093 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1093 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The first scrape needs no credential. Add `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` bare and scrape, search and parse work within a per-IP daily cap, and when it runs out the failure comes back as a structured payload with `next_actions` and a `signup_url` for the person. Signup needs no card, then OAuth at `/v2/mcp-oauth` or a Bearer key, with a fixed eight-tool search endpoint for narrow sessions and 26 tools in full. Crawl is the async job, start it and poll `firecrawl_check_crawl_status`, with map first to bound the pages. Results over about 20,000 estimated tokens go to retained storage instead of the context. Monitors are the cleanup, their delete marked destructive. The catches are bills and bugs. A 403 or 404 page costs a credit, no Retry-After is documented on a 429, and open issue #373 reports a published schema that disagrees with the API. Four because the ladder from keyless to OAuth is tidy and the schema can still lie. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1095 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1095 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review More than 20 version bumps since 8 July, the newest 3.27.2 on npm on 1 October. The package ships every few days, and the CHANGELOG hasn't kept up. It skips 3.22 to 3.24 and still lists 3.25.0 as unreleased, the GitHub releases page served to the research run was a stale snapshot, and the registry listed 3.25.5 from 25 September, so npm is the version record I'd trust. The repository moved from mendableai to the firecrawl org. New pricing took effect on 4 September with a date and no itemised list of what changed. The v1 endpoints stay up as legacy beside v2, which earns credit, and CI builds and tests on every push with npm trusted publishing. Bugs from July and August (#325, #357, #373) show no fix in the repository, among 83 open issues, and I found no deprecation policy. Two, because the file meant to say what changed in a release doesn't. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1099 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1099 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review 26 tools in the full profile, 8 on the search-only endpoint and 3 on the keyless one. 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. Zod schemas cover every tool, keyless failures return structured recovery payloads with `next_actions` and a `signup_url`, and results over 20,000 estimated tokens go to retained storage instead of inline. The holes are reported, not verified by me. Open issue #325 counts 132 parameters with no description and #373 says a published schema disagrees with the API, both with no visible fix since July and August. I saw no error-code reference. The CHANGELOG skips 3.22 to 3.24, and annotations are counted on 30 definitions against 26 tools. Four because the tool guidance is careful and two schema complaints are still open. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1100 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1100 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Four incidents since 1 July, all partial degradations of api.firecrawl.dev, the longest 56 minutes on /interact on 20 July and the others 7 to 46 minutes. Short and logged, which I like. Rate limits are 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. Exceeding one returns 429. Neither the rate-limit page nor the README mentions `Retry-After` or backoff, and whether the API sends it is open. No idempotency keys on crawl or agent jobs. A 403 or 404 page costs a credit, an empty scrape doesn't. Keyless failures return recovery payloads with `next_actions` and a `signup_url`. The SLA is Enterprise only and no terms are published. No latency published, and Anchor hasn't measured it. Three because the limits and the record are visible and the retry rules aren't. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1102 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_1102 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Scraped pages come back raw. Only retained Alexandria results carry a line telling the model that source content is data, not instructions, and Threat Protection, which blocks risky URLs, is Enterprise only and off by default. Keys are revocable Bearer tokens, but keys locked to endpoints and formats are Enterprise only. The README says never to put a key in the server URL, yet the legacy key-in-path routes still exist, undocumented. What narrows a session is the endpoint, 3 tools keyless and 8 on the search-only endpoint under its own OAuth identity. Write tools (monitor create, update and delete, interact) carry destructiveHint, and Alexandria terms need explicit consent and `confirmed: true`. No per-call log for operators. SOC 2 Type II, a valid security.txt, no bug bounty found, and no retention period for scraped content outside Enterprise. Three, because the small endpoints contain an agent and nothing contains the pages. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 3 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_0269 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_0269 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Standard is $99 for 100,000 credits, which makes a plain page $0.99 per 1,000. Hobby is $3.80 per 1,000 ($19 for 5,000), Growth $0.80 ($399 for 500,000) and Scale $0.75 ($749 for 1 million). Ask for JSON, question or highlight output and a page costs 5 credits, so $4.95 per 1,000 on Standard and $19 on Hobby. Search is 2 credits per 10 results. A scrape with no result isn't charged, but a 403 or 404 page costs 1 credit. 1,000 credits a month are free with no card, and the keyless hosted endpoint takes scrape, search and parse with no account at all. $5 top-ups exist on paid plans only, and new pricing took effect on 4 September without an itemised change list. No x402. Four because the rate card is public and a free start needs no signup. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_0270 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#rev_0270 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Firecrawl comes in three sizes, 26 tools in the full profile, 8 on the search-only endpoint and 3 on the keyless one, so an agent can connect the smallest set that fits. Together they cover a research loop. `firecrawl_map` lists a site's URLs, scrape returns Markdown with main-content filtering, crawl and map take page limits, and results over about 20,000 estimated tokens go to retained storage instead of the context. The README says when not to use a tool, for example when a browser session must be driven step by step across many calls. The schema has holes. Open issue #325 counts 132 parameters with no description and #373 reports a published schema that disagrees with the API, both among bugs from July and August with no fix in the repository yet. A 403 or 404 page still costs a credit. Four, because the tools are well chosen and the schema bugs are the one thing to watch. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Official Firecrawl server for scraping pages to markdown/JSON, mapping and crawling sites, web search, browser interaction, monitoring and an autonomous research agent. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp#dep-2026-09-04-price Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change New pricing took effect. The changes weren't itemised Source https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing