# jevcrawl vs Olostep

> jevcrawl and Olostep score within a point of each other for crawling, 63.7 and 63 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-15

jevcrawl and Olostep score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.7 (B) and 63 (B). Olostep leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do crawling.

- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #409 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json
- Olostep: grade B, 63/100, rank #441 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/olostep.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 204 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### jevcrawl (B)

Good for: An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 68 against 60
- Security & auth, 59 against 28
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 58

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer

### Olostep (B)

Good for: Bulk scraping on a budget and for batch jobs of thousands of URLs.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 80
- Payments & pricing, 65 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 45

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: The x402 challenge came back with no payment requirements in our probe


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | Olostep | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 60 | jevcrawl +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 84 | Olostep +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 87 | Olostep +7 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 28 | jevcrawl +31 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 65 | Olostep +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 58 | jevcrawl +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 58 | Olostep +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **63 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | jevcrawl | Olostep |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | Olostep Technologies, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.olostep.com` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 11 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-07-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-07-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**jevcrawl.** Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.

**Olostep.** OpenAPI 3.0.3 for every endpoint and a structured error body. The x402 challenge came back with no payment requirements in our probe.

## Before you call either

### jevcrawl

1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30
2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing
3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key
4. Handle `{"error": code, "message": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected
5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content

### Olostep

1. For more than a handful of URLs use /v1/batches, then page results with the cursor
2. Pass `storage.expires_in` if you need results after about 7 days
3. Don't ask for json output without a `parser` or an `llm_extract` schema
4. Hosted MCP wants `Authorization: Bearer`, stdio wants OLOSTEP_API_KEY. Mixing them up shows 0 tools
5. Check the 402 body before paying over x402. Our probe got an empty one

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or Olostep?

jevcrawl and Olostep score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.7 (B) and 63 (B). Olostep leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do jevcrawl and Olostep need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call jevcrawl and Olostep without installing anything?

jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Olostep has a hosted endpoint at https://api.olostep.com.

### Are jevcrawl and Olostep open source?

jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Olostep.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-olostep.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-olostep.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "jevcrawl", "b": "olostep"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare jevcrawl olostep`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/olostep.json

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