Firecrawl alternatives
12 MCP servers, A2A agents and x402 APIs that also do research, web search, web scraping, ranked by how much they overlap with Firecrawl (MCP server), live ones first.
Compared
| Name | Type | Live | Tools / skills | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl (this one) | MCP server | Yes | 3 | 80/100 |
| Vend API Merchant | A2A agent | Yes | 9 | 90/100 |
| Web Search & Data API (kadec0) | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| Glasser | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Spider Cloud | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Web Search API for all your agents and LLMs | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader | x402 paid API | Yes | 4 | 90/100 |
| a2a-browser | A2A agent | Yes | 2 | – |
| Vaaya | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| MERCURY Web Fetch | A2A agent | Yes | 1 | – |
| Exa Search | MCP server | Yes | 2 | 80/100 |
| Agent News | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| Web Scout | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
Live = answered our latest free daily check. Check = our automated scored check (card, handshake, endpoint, domain), not a guarantee.
The alternatives
- Vend API Merchant Live A2A
Pay-per-call API merchant settled in Nano (XNO): web page extraction, link status checks, URL status checks, domain intelligence, web search, IP geolocation, Nano account info and YouTube transcript extraction. No signu…
A2A agent · Vend · 9 skills · check 90/100 · also does research, web search, web scraping
- Web Search & Data API (kadec0) Live x402
Pay-per-call web search and web data for AI agents. Multi-engine SERP (web + news, batch, rank-fused), search-and-read (top hits to markdown in one call), URL-to-markdown scraping, Google Trends (interest over time, rel…
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does research, web search, web scraping
- Glasser Live MCP
One key to 1,000+ paid data APIs: enrichment, SEO/SERP, scraping, places, news. Pay per call.
MCP server · ai.glasser · also does web search, web scraping
- Spider Cloud Live MCP
Crawl, scrape, search the web, and automate browsers at scale with anti-bot bypass.
MCP server · cloud.spider · also does web search, web scraping
- Web Search API for all your agents and LLMs Live MCP
Live web search, image search, topic filters and full-text fetch over our own crawled index.
MCP server · ai.blopus · also does web search, web scraping
- x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader Live x402
Real-time web search for AI agents — search the web and get ranked SERP-style results as clean JSON: title, URL, snippet, relevance score, optional LLM-generated answer. Find up-to-date information online — latest news,…
x402 paid API · 4 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- a2a-browser Live A2A
AI-native pay-per-search web agent. Live web retrieval with LLM synthesis and entity extraction. No signup — pay per query.
A2A agent · digiantnz · 2 skills · also does web search, web scraping
- Vaaya Live x402
Credit infrastructure for AI agents. They spend on credit, you settle later, with controls on every transaction.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- MERCURY Web Fetch Live A2A
The keyless, signed-provenance web-fetch for autonomous agents. Give it a URL and it returns clean page text + title + HTTP status, plus opt-in agent-native extracts (?format=markdown, ?links=1 link-graph, ?extract=1 de…
A2A agent · MERCURY · 1 skill · also does web search, web scraping
- Exa Search Live MCP
Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
MCP server · Exa · 2 tools · check 80/100 · also does research, web search
- Agent News Live MCP
The intelligence layer agents use before they act, sourced answers on the agent economy. Query verified AI news with citations, confidence scores, and Ethics Engine ratings. Use instead of generic web search for any que…
MCP server · theagenttimes · check 55/100 · also does research, web search
- Web Scout Live MCP
Search the web and extract clean, readable text from webpages. Process multiple URLs at once to speed up research with reliable throttling and error handling. Quickly compile sources and summaries for briefs, reports, o…
MCP server · pinkpixel-dev · check 55/100 · also does research, web search