firecrawl vs research
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). research is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Grey Haven Studio. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-20. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Listed Version: 2.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 35 Stars (GitHub): 244 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 1.0.9 Forks (GitHub): 35 Stars (GitHub): 244 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace greyhaven-ai/claude-code-config | Not listed | Listed Version: 2.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 5 Stars (GitHub): 30 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 | research |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 3 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 244 (better) | 30 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 35 (better) | 5 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-10-16 | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp-search) | 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 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 11 | 7 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin | github.com/greyhaven-ai/claude-code-config |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 8 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-20 |
| 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
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.
research
API research and documentation retrieval using Firecrawl and Context7, with multi-agent synthesis capabilities
How to run each
firecrawl As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install firecrawl@claude-plugins-officialresearch As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add greyhaven-ai/claude-code-config
/plugin install research@grey-haven-pluginsCommands 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: firecrawl · What it can do: research · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/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.