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🏆 best overallsemble
🔒 most securesemble
🌱 most activesemble
📦 most adoptedfirecrawl-mcp
metric
#1 semble
pypi
#2 firecrawl-mcp
npm
#3 exa-mcp-server
npm
#4 tavily-mcp
npm
#5 @perplexity-ai/mcp-server
npm
composite score
93
best
93
92
91
91
security
100
best
100
100
100
100
freshness
100
best
100
100
100
100
adoption
90
98
best
88
87
86
quality
100
80
90
90
90
trust
50
50
50
50
50
↓ weekly downloads25k68k17k34k18k
★ github stars6k7k5k2k2k
🔑 secrets found✓ 0✓ 0✓ 0✓ 0✓ 0
📄 license✓ yes✓ yes✓ yes✓ yes✓ yes
🕐 last commit0d ago0d ago0d ago0d ago34d ago
head-to-head comparisons
semble vs firecrawl-mcpsemble vs exa-mcp-serversemble vs tavily-mcpsemble vs @perplexity-ai/mcp-serverfirecrawl-mcp vs exa-mcp-serverfirecrawl-mcp vs tavily-mcpfirecrawl-mcp vs @perplexity-ai/mcp-serverexa-mcp-server vs tavily-mcpexa-mcp-server vs @perplexity-ai/mcp-servertavily-mcp vs @perplexity-ai/mcp-server
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