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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Olostep vs Scrapewise

Olostep and Scrapewise score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63 (B) and 62.5 (B). Scrapewise leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do scraping.

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OlostepOlostep Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API B63/100#441 of 1098 ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098

Which one, for what

Olostep B

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

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 60 against 45
  • Schema & documentation, 84 against 79
  • Payments & pricing, 65 against 40
  • Transparency & trust, 58 against 53

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

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

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 58 against 28
  • Maintenance & community, 79 against 58

Watch for

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOlostepScrapewiseEdge
Reliability16%206045Olostep +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28479Olostep +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.28786Olostep +1
Security & auth14%17.52858Scrapewise +30
Payments & pricing10%12.56540Olostep +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85879Scrapewise +21
Transparency & trust7%8.85853Olostep +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63/100B 62.5/100

Facts side by side

FactOlostepScrapewise
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOlostep Technologies, Inc.BEBOTECH OÜ
Hosted endpointhttps://api.olostep.comhttps://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
Price for scraping$0.495 per 1,000 requestsnot published
x402payer tooling onlyno
LicenceMITnone
Tools exposed1114
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-serverai.scrapewise/scrapewise
Last release2026-07-152026-10-15
Terms last updated2025-07-152025-10-29
Privacy policy last updated2025-07-152025-10-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (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.

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

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

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Olostep or Scrapewise?

Olostep and Scrapewise score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63 (B) and 62.5 (B). Scrapewise leads on security & auth and maintenance & community.

Do Olostep and Scrapewise need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Olostep and Scrapewise without installing anything?

Yes. Olostep has a hosted endpoint at https://api.olostep.com and Scrapewise at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp.

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