# Olostep vs ScraperAPI (slim)

> Olostep scores 63 (B) to ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Olostep scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do scraping.

- Olostep: B 63, rank #410 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.min.md
- ScraperAPI: D 52.1, rank #739 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.min.md
- Olostep, good for Bulk scraping on a budget and for batch jobs of thousands of URLs. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 45; Schema & documentation, 84 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 87 against 74; Payments & pricing, 65 against 40.
- ScraperAPI, good for Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs.

| Category | Olostep | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 87 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 28 | 29 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 65 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Olostep | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Olostep Technologies, Inc. | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.olostep.com` | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |
| Price for scraping | $0.495 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | MIT | none |
| Tools exposed | 11 | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-08-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-15 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-07-15 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 5 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |