sansheng-distill vs Firecrawl MCP Server
sansheng-distill is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by 叁笙 (sansheng). Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). Firecrawl MCP Server is an MCP server published by firecrawl. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Official MCP Registry, Docker MCP Catalog, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-08. 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 MCP Server | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace sanshengai/sansheng-distill | Listed Version: 0.11.0 Forks (GitHub): 7 Stars (GitHub): 65 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 3.38.0 Downloads/month (npm): 517 013 Downloads/week (npm): 158 613 Forks (GitHub): 928 Stars (GitHub): 7 770 Not marked · First seen |
| Docker MCP Catalog | Not listed | Listed Version: sha256:3b22a74af198 Forks (GitHub): 928 Pulls (Docker Hub): 148 418 Stars (Docker Hub): 20 Stars (GitHub): 7 770 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 | sansheng-distill | Firecrawl MCP Server |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 3 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 65 (worse) | 7 770 (better) |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | No figure on Docker Hub | 148 418 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 7 (worse) | 928 (better) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-11-06 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | Remote server or your machine |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Tools it declares (differs) | Not published | 28 |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 2, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not published | 18 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/sanshengai/sansheng-distill | github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 9 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | Status out of date: last check 45 h ago returned HTTP 405 |
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
sansheng-distill
Distill books, video series, creator corpora, and evidence-backed biographies into auditable outputs.
Firecrawl MCP Server
Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, interact with the web, plus paper search.
How to run each
sansheng-distill As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add sanshengai/sansheng-distill
/plugin install sansheng-distill@sansheng-distill-marketplaceFirecrawl MCP Server As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http firecrawl-mcp-server https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"Requires: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY (secret), Authorization header
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only Firecrawl MCP Server has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of sansheng-distill publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of sansheng-distill publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: sansheng-distill · What it can do: Firecrawl MCP Server · 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. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.