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DimensionTwelve Data MCP ServerConnect AI assistants to Twelve Data financial market dataFirecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS52 / 100 · D75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions13 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance7 / 2016 / 20
Documentation11 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Individuals or teams with a Twelve Data account who want market data inside their AI assistant
  • Users who want a no-install setup via the hosted cloud connector
  • Developers who prefer to self-host with their own API key
  • 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 without a Twelve Data account who don't want to sign up or authorize access
  • Fully offline scenarios with no third-party data dependency
  • General tasks unrelated to financial market data
  • 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
  • Cloud option: browser-based OAuth login linking your account to the Twelve Data hosted service
  • Local option: reads TWELVE_DATA_API_KEY from a .env file and uses it to call the Twelve Data API
  • Makes outbound network requests to fetch market data (to mcp.twelvedata.com for the cloud option, or directly to the Twelve Data API locally)
  • 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
  • The cloud server is hosted by Twelve Data, requiring account authorization to a third-party service
  • In local mode, the API key is stored in plaintext in the .env file and must be kept secure
  • Data access and rate limits are bound by your Twelve Data subscription plan
  • The repository does not specify an open-source license, leaving usage and redistribution terms unclear
  • 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 Desktop, ChatGPTClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
Tools011