browserless vs firecrawl
browserless is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by browserless. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). firecrawl is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by firecrawl. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-12. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen |
Listed Version: 1.0.9 No figure published Not marked · First seen |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.9 Forks (GitHub): 33 Stars (GitHub): 237 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 | browserless | firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 3 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 1 (worse) | 237 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 (worse) | 33 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (mcp.browserless.io/mcp) | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 11 | 14 |
| Licence (differs) | SSPL-1.0 | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/browserless/claude-plugin | github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | not checked yet | no remote endpoint we check |
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
browserless
A Claude Code plugin that gives Claude direct access to the Browserless.io REST APIs: scrape webpages, take screenshots, generate PDFs, search the web, map site structures, and run custom browser automation, all from natural language.
firecrawl
Web scraping and crawling powered by Firecrawl. Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape single pages, crawl entire sites, search the web, and extract structured information. Includes an AI agent for autonomous multi-source data gathering - just describe what you need and it finds, navigates, and extracts automatically.
How to run each
browserless
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
firecrawl As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install firecrawl@claude-plugins-officialCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: browserless · What it can do: firecrawl · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. 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.