Chrome MCP
Shares rank 17 of 21 MCP servers by recommenders
A free Chrome remote debugging server that lets AI coding assistants drive and inspect real browser pages, used for debugging slow front-end code and crawling sites. Critics report occasional crashes.
A free Chrome remote debugging server that lets AI coding assistants drive and inspect real browser pages, used for debugging slow front-end code and crawling sites. Critics report occasional crashes.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Crawls and drives most websites
“I have yet to meet a website I can't crawl with Chrome MCP.”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Websites are closing their doors to AI agents” “drive production sites with Chrome MCP”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack” “I have succeed 8/8 websites with this.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic” Diagnoses and fixes front-end slowness
“Claude was able to identify the slowness and use various react tricks to fix the specific issues”
Comment from 3 Jul 2026 in “The Safari MCP server for web developers”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Tends to crash
“Chrome/Ghidra MCP does have a tendency of crashing”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “MCP Is Dead” Output described as messy
“The Chrome one was making a lot of messy”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27”
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The four most recommended other MCP servers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright MCP | 40 | 22 | 65% | 11 | — | — |
| Context7 | 40 | 7 | 85% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Chrome DevTools MCP | 36 | 22 | 62% | 9 | — | — |
| Serena MCP | 18 | 3 | 86% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Chrome MCPThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I have yet to meet a website I can't crawl with Chrome MCP.”
“The Chrome one was making a lot of messy”
“Claude was able to identify the slowness and use various react tricks to fix the specific issues”
“Chrome/Ghidra MCP does have a tendency of crashing”
“I have succeed 8/8 websites with this.”
“drive production sites with Chrome MCP”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.