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- Free with no card: playwright-mcp.
- Editor's picks: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl.
- No logged gotchas: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl.
| Field | multicagithub.com | playwright-mcpgithub.com | Firecrawlgithub.com |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Assign issues to coding agents the way you assign them to teammates — agents pick up work, run in their own runtime, report progress and submit for review, with timestamped tool logs and per-run token accounting. Brokers 20 agent CLIs behind one interface. ~46k stars. | Drives a real browser and exposes the page to the model as a structured accessibility snapshot rather than a screenshot — so the agent targets elements deterministically without vision or pixel guessing. Adds network mocking, storage state, tracing, video and PDF generation. ~36k stars. | Turns arbitrary sites into LLM-ready markdown or schema-constrained JSON, handling JS rendering, crawling and cleanup. Scrape, crawl, map, batch, search-with-full-content, browser interaction and autonomous agent modes. Parses web-hosted PDFs and DOCX. Self-hostable (AGPL core). ~128k stars. |
| Category | Agent tools & orchestration | Agent tools & orchestration | Agent tools & orchestration |
| Cost tier | mixed | free | mixed |
| Pricing | Free self-host · cloud trial | Free | Free 1,000 credits · $16–$599/mo |
| Why builders pick it | Overkill for one site, sensible if you are running your build alongside PRO EDU, Endgame Society and other client projects at once. Squads let you mix human and agent assignees. | This is how Claude checks its own work. Have it load the article page, verify the layout at three breakpoints, confirm images lazy-load, and catch the broken nav before you do. The accessibility-tree approach doubles as a free a11y audit on a publication site. | The archive-migration tool. Point it at an existing site and get every back-issue article as clean structured JSON ready for Supabase. Also the competitive-research tool — crawl other publications and extract their section taxonomy. Free tier is 1,000 credits; a typical archive fits inside $16/mo. |
| Watch out for | Custom 'Multica License' — Apache 2.0 plus restrictions on hosted resale and commercial embedding. | not logged | not logged |
| How to wire it up | brew install multica-ai/tap/multica | claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest | npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all |
| Editor's pick | No | Yes | Yes |
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# Tool comparison — multica vs playwright-mcp vs Firecrawl Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects. Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code. ## multica (multica) - URL: https://github.com/multica-ai/multica - Category: Agent tools & orchestration - Cost: mixed — Free self-host · cloud trial - What it is: Assign issues to coding agents the way you assign them to teammates — agents pick up work, run in their own runtime, report progress and submit for review, with timestamped tool logs and per-run token accounting. Brokers 20 agent CLIs behind one interface. ~46k stars. - Why builders pick it: Overkill for one site, sensible if you are running your build alongside PRO EDU, Endgame Society and other client projects at once. Squads let you mix human and agent assignees. - Trap: Custom 'Multica License' — Apache 2.0 plus restrictions on hosted resale and commercial embedding. - Wiring: brew install multica-ai/tap/multica - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/multica ## playwright-mcp (playwright-mcp) - URL: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp - Category: Agent tools & orchestration - Cost: free — Free - What it is: Drives a real browser and exposes the page to the model as a structured accessibility snapshot rather than a screenshot — so the agent targets elements deterministically without vision or pixel guessing. Adds network mocking, storage state, tracing, video and PDF generation. ~36k stars. - Why builders pick it: This is how Claude checks its own work. Have it load the article page, verify the layout at three breakpoints, confirm images lazy-load, and catch the broken nav before you do. The accessibility-tree approach doubles as a free a11y audit on a publication site. - Wiring: claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/playwright-mcp ## Firecrawl (firecrawl) - URL: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl - Category: Agent tools & orchestration - Cost: mixed — Free 1,000 credits · $16–$599/mo - What it is: Turns arbitrary sites into LLM-ready markdown or schema-constrained JSON, handling JS rendering, crawling and cleanup. Scrape, crawl, map, batch, search-with-full-content, browser interaction and autonomous agent modes. Parses web-hosted PDFs and DOCX. Self-hostable (AGPL core). ~128k stars. - Why builders pick it: The archive-migration tool. Point it at an existing site and get every back-issue article as clean structured JSON ready for Supabase. Also the competitive-research tool — crawl other publications and extract their section taxonomy. Free tier is 1,000 credits; a typical archive fits inside $16/mo. - Wiring: npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/firecrawl ## Quick read - Free with no card: playwright-mcp. - Editor's picks: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl. - No logged gotchas: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl. ## Rules 1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is. 2. Read the full dossier before integrating. 3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.
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