Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Olostep vs ScrapeGraphAI

ScrapeGraphAI has a score of 68.3 (B) against Olostep's 63.1 (B). Both do scraping. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 25 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Olostep	ScrapeGraphAI	Edge
Reliability	16%20	60	64	ScrapeGraphAI +4
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	84	88	ScrapeGraphAI +4
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	87	72	Olostep +15
Security & auth	14%17.5	28	39	ScrapeGraphAI +11
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	65	90	ScrapeGraphAI +25
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	58	70	ScrapeGraphAI +12
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	60	61	ScrapeGraphAI +1
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		63.1 · B	68.3 · B

Fact	Olostep	ScrapeGraphAI
Kind	HTTP API	HTTP API
Vendor	Olostep Technologies, Inc.	ScrapeGraphAI
Hosted endpoint	`https://api.olostep.com`	`https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com`
Transports	HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio	HTTP, Streamable HTTP
Auth	API key	OAuth or key
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
x402	payer tooling only	payer tooling only
Licence	MIT	none
Tools exposed	11	20
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	yes
MCP registry	`io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server`	`io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp`
Last release	2026-07-15	2026-07-31
Popularity	24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk	2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	3.5/5 (2)	3/5 (2)

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

An agent can mint an account and key over x402 or MPP with no signup. Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages.

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

Use scrape with the markdown format (1 credit) before reaching for extract (5 credits)
Read GET https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/agent/protocols for current packs and prices before paying over x402
MCP tool calls stop at 60 seconds. Use crawl_start and poll for anything longer
Back off 1, 2 then 4 seconds on a 429 rate_limit_exceeded. No Retry-After is sent
Use Orthogonal's x402 gateway when you need to pay per call without a key