Comparison

Firecrawl vs io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server

Firecrawl is an MCP server published by firecrawl. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server is an MCP server published by cyanheads. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, npm registry (MCP servers)). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-29. 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

Where each is published
Marketplace	Firecrawl	io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server
Docker MCP Catalog	Listed Version: sha256:28e677a10704 Forks (GitHub): 920 Pulls (Docker Hub): 144 552 Stars (Docker Hub): 20 Stars (GitHub): 7 721 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Not listed
Official MCP Registry	Not listed	Listed Version: 0.7.7 Downloads/month (npm): 846 Downloads/week (npm): 204 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11
npm registry (MCP servers)	Not listed	Listed Version: 0.7.7 Downloads/month (npm): 846 Downloads/week (npm): 204 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-12

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

Firecrawl vs io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server
Fact	Firecrawl	io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server
Marketplaces that list it (differs)	1 (worse)	2 (better)
Stars (GitHub) (differs)	7 721 (better)	1 (worse)
Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs)	144 552	No figure on Docker Hub
Forks (GitHub) (differs)	920 (better)	0 (worse)
Last release (differs)	Not published	2026-10-24
Where it runs (differs)	On your machine (mcp/firecrawl)	Remote server or your machine
Transport (differs)	stdio	Streamable HTTP
Tools it declares (differs)	26	Not published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)	8, secrets among them: 1	10, secrets among them: 0
Licence (differs)	MIT	Apache-2.0
Repository (differs)	github.com/mendableai/firecrawl-mcp-server	github.com/cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server
Changes in the last 7 days (differs)	0	5
First seen	2026-10-11	2026-10-11
Endpoint at the last check (differs)	no remote endpoint we check	Not responding since 2026-10-26

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

In its own words, on Docker MCP Catalog:

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.

io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Search GBIF species taxonomy, occurrence records, datasets, and publishers.

How to run each

Firecrawl As a local MCP server: Docker image

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=<YOUR_FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>" --transport stdio firecrawl -- docker run -i --rm -e FIRECRAWL_API_KEY mcp/firecrawl

Requires: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (secret)

io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server As a remote MCP server

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server https://gbif-biodiversity.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.

Only io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints

Tools each declares

The marketplaces of io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server 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_URL
FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD
FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD
FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR
FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY
FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS
FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY

Only io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server asks for

GBIF_BASE_URL
GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS
GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS
GBIF_USER_AGENT
MCP_AUTH_MODE
MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH
MCP_HTTP_HOST
MCP_HTTP_PORT
MCP_LOG_LEVEL
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE

Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.

What it can do: Firecrawl · What it can do: io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server · Compare two other plugins

Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Package data comes from the public npm registry (registry.npmjs.org). Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-29. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.