Firecrawl MCP Server vs Kagi MCP Server

Firecrawl MCP Server

MCP Servers

Kagi MCP Server

MCP Servers

Tagline

Firecrawl MCP Server

MCP server that gives Claude, Cursor, and other AI agents native web scrape, crawl, search, and extract tools via Firecrawl.

Kagi MCP Server

Official Kagi Search MCP server: search and extract the web from any MCP-compatible agent.

Pricing

Firecrawl MCP Server

Freemium· Free: $0 USD · Team: $4 USD per user/month · Enterprise: $21 USD per user/month

Kagi MCP Server

Paid· Free: $0 USD · Team: $4 USD per user/month · Enterprise: $21 USD per user/month

Lowest paid tier

Firecrawl MCP Server

$4 USD per user/month · Team

captured 2026-10-27

Kagi MCP Server

$4 USD per user/month · Team

captured 2026-10-27

Free trial

Firecrawl MCP Server

Yes

Kagi MCP Server

Not listed

API

Firecrawl MCP Server

Yes

Kagi MCP Server

Yes

Open source

Firecrawl MCP Server

Yes · MIT

Kagi MCP Server

Yes · MIT

GitHub stars

Firecrawl MCP Server

7,711

checked 2026-10-29

Kagi MCP Server

552

checked 2026-10-29

Last GitHub push

Firecrawl MCP Server

2026-10-29

Kagi MCP Server

2026-10-28

First commit

Firecrawl MCP Server

2024-12

Kagi MCP Server

2024-12

Package downloads (30 d)

Firecrawl MCP Server

543,910 · npm firecrawl-mcp

checked 2026-10-11

Kagi MCP Server

—

Best for

Firecrawl MCP Server

Developers and AI engineers who want a coding or research agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code) to fetch, crawl, and structure live web content without writing scraping code.

Kagi MCP Server

Engineers using Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or other MCP clients who already pay for Kagi and want their agent to search and read the web through Kagi's cleaner index instead of a generic SERP API.

Not for

Firecrawl MCP Server

Teams that need cheap, unmetered bulk scraping, or workflows targeting heavily bot-walled sites where residential proxies and human-in-the-loop CAPTCHA solving are unavoidable.

Kagi MCP Server

Hobbyists who want a free web-search MCP, or teams that need summarizer/FastGPT tools today, or shops that require an on-prem search stack with no third-party API dependency.

Editorial score

Firecrawl MCP Server

—

Kagi MCP Server

—

Use cases

Firecrawl MCP Server

Live documentation lookup inside Claude DesktopCompetitor pricing extraction during a Cursor coding sessionStructured JSON extract from product pagesMulti-page crawl for RAG corpus buildingAgentic web research with follow-link reasoningPage change monitoring and diff alertsGitHub issue and docs search from a coding agentScreenshot capture for visual QATurning a URL into agent-ready markdown context

Kagi MCP Server

agent web search groundingClaude Code documentation lookupdeep-research pipelinesURL to Markdown extraction for RAGnews and video search from an LLMKagi lens-scoped queries in agentscitation gathering for research assistantscoding agent error-message lookups

Pros

Firecrawl MCP Server

• Adds live web access to Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf with a single NPX command
• 14+ granular tools cover scrape, crawl, structured extract, search, page interaction, monitoring, and agentic research
• Returns clean markdown and JSON that LLMs consume without extra HTML-stripping prompts
• Free keyless hosted endpoint at mcp.firecrawl.dev lets you try it before signing up for an API key
• Works against self-hosted Firecrawl via FIRECRAWL_API_URL for privacy-sensitive teams
• MIT-licensed, actively maintained, and one of the highest-star MCP servers (7k+ stars)
• Built-in retries and rate limiting protect agents from wasting credits on transient errors

Kagi MCP Server

• Official, first-party MCP server maintained by Kagi (not a community wrapper)
• Two clean tools that cover the 90% agent case: search and full-page Markdown extraction
• Both hosted (mcp.kagi.com) and local (uvx/Docker) deployment modes
• Documented setup recipes for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Smithery
• MIT-licensed Python code, easy to fork or audit
• Rides Kagi's ad-free, spam-de-boosted index rather than generic SERP APIs
• Supports Kagi lenses and filters so agents can scope searches to news, docs, etc.

Cons

Firecrawl MCP Server

• Underlying Firecrawl API is credit-metered — long crawls or extract jobs on paid tiers can burn quota quickly
• Struggles with hard bot walls (aggressive Cloudflare, login-gated pages, some government sites) that need residential proxies or manual cookie handoff
• Structured extract quality depends on the target site's DOM stability; brittle selectors show up as empty fields rather than errors
• MCP tool sprawl (14+ tools) can confuse smaller LLMs that pick the wrong one for a task
• Hosted keyless tier is rate-limited enough that only trivial demos work without an API key

Kagi MCP Server

• Requires a paid Kagi API key with pay-per-use billing; not usable free
• FastGPT and Universal Summarizer tools are currently absent (rewrite in progress)
• Python + uv toolchain assumption raises the bar vs. a single-binary MCP server
• Small surface area: no built-in caching, batching, or spend controls beyond Kagi's invoice cap
• Hosted endpoint means your queries and Bearer token traverse Kagi infra, not a concern for everyone but worth noting for regulated workloads

Website

Firecrawl MCP Server

github.com

Kagi MCP Server

github.com

Editorial score: rule-based, 0–10, from AI-assisted profile inputs (see /methodology) — not a user rating; “—” means unscored. “Not listed” means we have no record of it, not that it is absent. GitHub figures and prices carry the date they were checked or captured; prices are shown as published, unconverted.