# Olostep vs ScrapeAtlas

> Olostep and ScrapeAtlas score within a point of each other for extraction, 63.1 and 63 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-30

Olostep and ScrapeAtlas score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.1 (B) and 63 (B). ScrapeAtlas leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do extraction.

- Olostep: grade B, 63.1/100, rank #474 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/olostep.json
- ScrapeAtlas: grade B, 63/100, rank #481 of 1226. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeatlas.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapeatlas.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 242 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Olostep (B)

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

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 60 against 42
- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 76
- Payments & pricing, 65 against 55

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

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

### ScrapeAtlas (B)

Good for: Agents that need structured public data from a named social, video, forum, marketplace or prediction-market platform, such as a creator's profile and recent posts, a thread's comments, a product's reviews or a market's order book, paid per successful request without a subscription.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 55 against 28
- Maintenance & community, 70 against 58

Watch for: No status page or incident history was found, and the terms promise no uptime, throughput or continued availability of an endpoint


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Olostep | ScrapeAtlas | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 42 | Olostep +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 88 | ScrapeAtlas +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 76 | Olostep +11 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 55 | ScrapeAtlas +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 65 | 55 | Olostep +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 70 | ScrapeAtlas +12 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 61 | ScrapeAtlas +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.1 · B** | **63 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Olostep | ScrapeAtlas |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Olostep Technologies, Inc. | OD. Media & Technology LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.olostep.com` | `https://api.scrapeatlas.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repository |
| Tools exposed | 11 | 373 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server` | `io.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlas` |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-15 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 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 | 24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**ScrapeAtlas.** An OpenAPI 3.1 file with 386 operations, typed parameters and a uniform failure object, published limits of 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent, and 1 credit per successful request with failed calls free. No status page, security.txt or SDKs, the MCP server is a preview with 373 tools, and the product is five weeks old.

## Before you call either

### 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

### ScrapeAtlas

1. Send the key as `x-api-key` on https://api.scrapeatlas.com and check `status` on every HTTP 200; `partial` is usable data with `coverage.warnings`, `failed` and `challenged` carry `failure.code`.
2. Retry only on `upstream_rate_limited`, `timeout` and `busy`, after the `retry-after` on a 429. Stay under 120 requests a minute and 4 concurrent per account.
3. Pass the returned `cursor` back unchanged for the next page, and use `since` and `until` (ISO 8601 or Unix seconds) where listed; each page costs another credit.
4. Each platform has its own response schema, so read the endpoint's response fields before mapping; unknown values are `null`, never 0.
5. For MCP, connect to https://api.scrapeatlas.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP with `Authorization: Bearer` and expect 373 tools; the two account tools and failed calls cost 0 credits.

## Questions

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

Olostep and ScrapeAtlas score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.1 (B) and 63 (B). ScrapeAtlas leads on security & auth and maintenance & community.

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

Olostep needs an API key. ScrapeAtlas takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

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

Yes. Olostep has a hosted endpoint at https://api.olostep.com and ScrapeAtlas at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.


## For agents

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

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