Alternatives to Firecrawl MCP Server
Firecrawl MCP Server is a MCP server by firecrawl: Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, interact with the web, plus paper search. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 MCP servers cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match Firecrawl MCP Server and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. CRW Web Scraper leads the list (most GitHub stars here (1,174); active in the last 30 days). 3 offer a remote endpoint, so there is nothing to install locally. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with Firecrawl MCP Server.
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Firecrawl MCP Server
Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, interact with the web, plus paper search.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches Firecrawl MCP Server (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1CRW Web Scraper
fastcrw
Open-source web scraper for AI agents with scrape, crawl, and map tools
- Most GitHub stars here (1,174)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.2KLast active Oct 21, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2Scrapegraph MCP
ScrapeGraphAI
AI-powered web scraping and data extraction capabilities through ScrapeGraph API
- Open source (MIT)
★ 117↓ 141/wkLast active Jul 17, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 3proxy-scraper
maximilianfeix
Free proxies that actually work: checked HTTP/SOCKS proxies, and pages fetched through them
- Most weekly downloads here (444)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 67↓ 444/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4
Open SEO Crawlerpuneetindersingh
Self-hosted SEO crawler: run site audits and AI crawler checks, then read the issues and pages.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 71Last active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Desktop
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5Web Scraping
superagnt.com
Web scraping for AI agents: scrape, search, crawl, map any website to markdown + JSON.
- Remote server, no local install
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 5Last active Oct 22, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6CN Scraper MCP
goesByhc
MCP server for AI agents to search major Chinese internet platforms with local-first login support.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 70↓ 157/wkLast active Jul 29, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 7
Scrape-LEnolindnaidoo
Analyse robots.txt content and report whether a path may be crawled.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1Last active Oct 18, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8Scrape Graph AI Scrapegraph MCP
smithery.ai
Enable language models to perform advanced AI-powered web scraping with enterprise-grade reliabili…
- Remote server, no local install
- Open source (MIT)
★ 117Last active Jul 17, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 9
WAF-bypass web scraper and passive URL mapper for AI agents with zero pay-on-fail.
- Remote server, no local install
Last active Sep 16, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10doc-scraper
Sriram-PR
Crawl documentation sites into local corpora agents can search, read, and diff fully offline.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 107Last active Oct 25, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Desktop
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11Firecrawl
mcparmory.com
Scrape, crawl, and extract structured data from websites at scale
- Open source (MIT)
★ 32↓ 159/wkLast active May 12, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 12Scraper
ofershap
Web scraping MCP — extract clean markdown, links, and metadata from any URL.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 6Last active Aug 10, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet