fastCRW vs Writ Cloud
fastCRW is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by us. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). Writ Cloud is an MCP server published by usewrit.app. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-13. 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 |  Writ Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace fastcrw/crw | Listed Version: 0.3.0 Forks (GitHub): 93 Stars (GitHub): 1 128 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Downloads/month (npm): 254 Downloads/week (npm): 220 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 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 | fastCRW | Writ Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 1 128 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 93 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (crw-mcp) | Remote server (api.usewrit.app/mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 1, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 14 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | AGPL-3.0 | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/fastcrw/crw | github.com/usewrit/writ-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | not checked yet |
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
fastCRW
Scrape, crawl, map, search, parse, extract, and change-track the web with fastCRW, the open-source, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative. Single Rust binary, ~6.6 MB idle RAM, Firecrawl-compatible /v1 + /v2 API, built-in web search.
Writ Cloud
Read, crawl and act on websites, signed in as the user, and turn any site into an API.
How to run each
fastCRW As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add fastcrw/crw
/plugin install fastcrw@fastcrwWrit Cloud As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http writ-cloud https://api.usewrit.app/mcpRequires: WRIT_API_KEY (secret)
Commands 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
The marketplaces of fastCRW publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: fastCRW · What it can do: Writ Cloud · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.