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DimensionMCP Metabase ServerComprehensive Metabase access for AI assistants (70+ tools)Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS59 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability6 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2016 / 20
Documentation15 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Organizations using Metabase that want AI-driven interactions with their BI platform
  • Developers building AI agents that need to interact with Metabase data
  • Teams needing automated Metabase administration and monitoring
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Users not using Metabase
  • Scenarios requiring real-time, low-latency data queries (this server uses API calls)
  • Teams looking to avoid maintaining a Metabase instance
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Requires an API key or username/password for the Metabase instance
  • Tools can read and modify dashboards, cards, databases, collections, and users, depending on API token permissions
  • Schema cache may require local filesystem write access (~/.easecloud/metabase-mcp/)
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • Accidental modification or deletion of Metabase resources if API token permissions are too broad
  • Write tools can cause irreversible changes if misused
  • Unencrypted API keys could be exposed
  • Potential rate limiting or increased load on the Metabase instance due to frequent requests
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude DesktopClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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