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> Published: 2026-09-12 23:34:53+00:00

# firecrawl-mcp-server

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

[All 27 alternatives →](/alternatives/firecrawl-mcp-server)

| Record | Stars | Pricing |  |  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl-mcp-serverthis listing | 7.3k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source | 
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| [chrome-devtools-mcp](/agents/chrome-devtools-mcp) | 50k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source | 
| [github-mcp-server](/agents/github-mcp-server) | 32k | Go | MIT | Open source | 
| [serena](/agents/serena) | 28k | Python | MIT | Open source | 
| [fastmcp](/agents/fastmcp) | 27k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Open source |