Firecrawl vs Anthropic MCP

FeatureFirecrawlAnthropic MCP
CategoryData ToolsAI Development
PricingFree (open-source) + CloudFree (open standard)
GitHub Stars20,00045,000
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Docker, WebmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ Web scraping
  • ✓ Markdown conversion
  • ✓ Crawling
  • ✓ JavaScript rendering
  • ✓ API
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
Tags
scrapingwebmarkdownopen-source
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard