Firecrawl and Enrichr both put the live web in front of an AI model, and both run as MCP servers, so they get compared a lot. They answer different questions. Firecrawl answers “what does this site say?” Enrichr answers “how is this site made?”
The short version
When Firecrawl is the right tool
Use Firecrawl when the words and data are what matter: feeding docs into a RAG system, researching competitors’ pricing pages, extracting product listings, or letting an agent search and read the web. Its MCP server exposes scrape, crawl, map and search tools that return clean markdown.
When Enrichr is the right tool
Use Enrichr when the design is what matters: matching a reference site, lifting a scroll animation, understanding a WebGL hero, or giving Claude a real design system instead of its defaults. Markdown is the one format guaranteed to throw all of that away. Enrichr keeps it: computed tokens, loaded fonts, animation timelines, shaders and the 3D scene, plus a rebuild brief Claude can build from.
Using both
A typical redesign uses both: Firecrawl to pull a client’s existing content into the new build, Enrichr to capture the reference sites the client loves. If you are choosing which MCP servers to install first, see 10 MCP servers for Claude Code.
FAQ
Can Firecrawl get a website’s design?
Firecrawl focuses on content: markdown, structured data and screenshots. It doesn’t report computed design tokens, animation timings or WebGL shaders.
Can Enrichr scrape text like Firecrawl?
Enrichr has scrape_url for page text and markdown, plus map_site and crawl_site, but bulk content extraction at scale is Firecrawl’s specialty.
Do both work with Claude?
Yes. Both offer MCP servers that work with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients.
Which is cheaper?
Both are credit-based with free tiers, and pricing changes often. Check each pricing page. The better question is which job you are doing.