Firecrawl MCP review
Firecrawl's hosted MCP server for SEO. What it can reach, what it costs and who should connect it.
Our verdict
The most practical web-data server for content and competitor work: map a site, scrape the pages that matter and hand the agent clean Markdown. The keyless tier is enough to try it; real work needs an API key and credits.
Why it's on our list
Firecrawl MCP adds scraping, crawling, URL mapping, search and change monitoring to any MCP client. It's here because it turns competitor pages into clean text an agent can compare, with a free way to try it.
Strengths
- Open source (MIT) and self-hostable
- Scrape, map, crawl, search and monitor in one server
- Keyless tier for trying it out
Watch out for
- The keyless endpoint exposes only 3 tools
- Credits add up on large crawls
- Scraped content still needs checking before you rely on it
Best for
- Scraping and comparing competitor pages
- Mapping a site's URLs before an audit
Documented tools
These are the tool names Firecrawl documents (not necessarily the full list).
Pricing and access
Credit-based, with a free tier and a limited keyless tier.
Hosted endpoint:
Setup steps differ by client. Follow Firecrawl's setup docs for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code.