Context7 vs Firecrawl MCP
Compare Context7 and Firecrawl MCP on pricing, free tier, open source, API, self-host, verdict and momentum.
Both are mcp tools. Context7 is freemium (Free $0 (1,000 API calls/mo, public repos); Pro $10/seat/mo (5,000/seat); hosted https://mcp.context7.com/mcp) with open source, an API, a free tier; Firecrawl MCP is freemium (hosted https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp; keyless scrape/search/parse (rate-limited); full tools need a Firecrawl key or OAuth. Firecrawl Free $0 = 1,000 credits/mo; Hobby $16/mo billed yearly (https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing). npx firecrawl-mcp) with open source, an API, self-hostable and a free tier. The catalog stamp is ship for Context7 and ship for Firecrawl MCP, last verified 2026-08-26 and 2026-08-26 respectively.
Auto-paired from catalog data — the verdicts are hand-set, the pairing is algorithmic.
Context7
Upstash Context7 — current library docs in the agent's context, via hosted MCP.
Firecrawl MCP
Hosted Firecrawl MCP — scrape, search, parse. Keyless free tier; full tools need a Firecrawl key.
| field | Context7 | Firecrawl MCP |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | freemium · Free $0 (1,000 API calls/mo, public repos); Pro $10/seat/mo (5,000/seat); hosted https://mcp.context7.com/mcp | freemium · hosted https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp; keyless scrape/search/parse (rate-limited); full tools need a Firecrawl key or OAuth. Firecrawl Free $0 = 1,000 credits/mo; Hobby $16/mo billed yearly (https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing). npx firecrawl-mcp |
| free tier | yes | yes |
| open source | yes | yes |
| api | yes | yes |
| self-host | no | yes |
| verdict | ship | ship |
| momentum | blueshift | blueshift |
| last verified | 2026-08-26 | 2026-08-26 |
| key limitation | Free tier is 1,000 API calls/month (cut hard in Jan 2026, now 1,000 + 20/day bonus after cap). | Keyless hosted tools are scrape, search, and parse only, and rate-limited. |
The call
Pick Context7 for coding agents that keep inventing APIs the package no longe…
Pick Firecrawl MCP for coding agents that need a live page as markdown, not a brow…
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