Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
About firecrawl-mcp-server #
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings Firecrawl to MCP-compatible AI agents — search, scrape, and interact with the live web for clean, agent-ready context.
On the keyless free tier, scrape, search, and interact work without an API key (rate-limited). Other tools such as crawl, map, agent, and extract still need a key.
Prefer an API key or OAuth whenever the human can sign up. It unlocks the full tool set and higher limits. With a key, use:
firecrawl-mcp-server is an open-source project written primarily in JavaScript, with 7.3k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in August 2026.
npm install -g firecrawl-mcp
firecrawl-mcp-server vs. the alternatives #
| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl-mcp-serverthis listing | 7.3k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source |
| context7 | 61k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| chrome-devtools-mcp | 50k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| github-mcp-server | 32k | Go | MIT | Open source |
| serena | 28k | Python | MIT | Open source |
| fastmcp | 27k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
source & further reading
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