Firecrawl vs Bright Data for Claude Code
Verdict
Firecrawl has the stronger Claude Code integration today: Firecrawl (5/5: official Anthropic-marketplace plugin with MCP server + 3 skills), versus Bright Data (4/5: official Anthropic-marketplace plugin with 21 skills (no bundled MCP server)). That doesn’t make it the better product for every team, but your agent will get more official tooling out of the box.
| Firecrawl | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code fit | 5/5 | 4/5 |
| Claude Code plugin | Yes | Yes |
| In Anthropic marketplace | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Skills | Yes · 3 | Yes · 21 |
| Category | Web search & scraping | Web search & scraping |
| Setup | /plugin install firecrawl@claude-plugins-official | /plugin install brightdata-plugin@claude-plugins-official |
Firecrawl with Claude Code
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.
Sources
- ↗ https://claude.com/marketplace/plugins
- ↗ https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/main/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
- ↗ https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin
- ↗ https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin.git
Bright Data with Claude Code
Web scraping, Google search, structured data extraction, and MCP server integration powered by Bright Data. Includes 7 skills: scrape any webpage as markdown (with bot detection/CAPTCHA bypass), search Google with structured JSON results, extract data from 40+ websites (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more), orchestrate Bright Data's 60+ MCP tools, built-in best practices for Web Unlocker, SERP API, Web Scraper API, and Browser API, Python SDK best practices for the brightda...
Sources
- ↗ https://claude.com/marketplace/plugins
- ↗ https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/main/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
- ↗ https://github.com/brightdata/skills
- ↗ https://docs.brightdata.com
Frequently asked questions
Firecrawl has the stronger Claude Code integration today: Firecrawl (5/5: official Anthropic-marketplace plugin with MCP server + 3 skills), versus Bright Data (4/5: official Anthropic-marketplace plugin with 21 skills (no bundled MCP server)). That doesn’t make it the better product for every team, but your agent will get more official tooling out of the box.