Firecrawl vs mcp-tools
Firecrawl is an MCP server published by firecrawl. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). mcp-tools is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by izumin5210. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Firecrawl | |
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: sha256:28e677a10704 Forks (GitHub): 917 Pulls (Docker Hub): 141 762 Stars (Docker Hub): 20 Stars (GitHub): 7 672 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace izumin5210/dotfiles | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 No figure published Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Firecrawl | mcp-tools |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 7 672 | No figure on GitHub |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | 141 762 | No figure on Docker Hub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 917 | No figure on GitHub |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (mcp/firecrawl) | Remote server (mcp.deepwiki.com/mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares (differs) | 26 | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 8, secrets among them: 1 | 4, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 4 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server | github.com/izumin5210/dotfiles |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 1 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-22 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | Responded 3 days ago |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
Firecrawl
Official Firecrawl MCP server, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, and interact with the web, plus parse, crawl, map, Agent and Monitor, from any MCP client.
mcp-tools
Personal MCP servers (any-script-mcp, o3-search, deepwiki)
How to run each
Firecrawl As a local MCP server: Docker image
claude mcp add --env "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=<YOUR_FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>" --transport stdio firecrawl -- docker run -i --rm -e FIRECRAWL_API_KEY mcp/firecrawlRequires: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (secret)
mcp-tools As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add izumin5210/dotfiles
/plugin install mcp-tools@izumin5210-dotfilesCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only mcp-tools has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of mcp-tools publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
Only Firecrawl asks for
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (secret)FIRECRAWL_API_URLFIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLDFIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLDFIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTORFIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAYFIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTSFIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY
Only mcp-tools asks for
OPENAI_API_KEY (secret)OPENAI_API_TIMEOUTREASONING_EFFORTSEARCH_CONTEXT_SIZE
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: Firecrawl · What it can do: mcp-tools · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.