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    "a": {
      "slug": "olostep",
      "name": "Olostep",
      "vendor": "Olostep Technologies, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.olostep.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Scrape, crawl, map, batch and search API that returns markdown, HTML, JSON or screenshots, with JS rendering and residential IPs on every request.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/olostep.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/olostep/olostep-mcp-server",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.olostep.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "olostep"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "olostep"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "olostep-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Bearer key in the Authorization header for the API and the hosted MCP server. The stdio MCP server and the SDKs read OLOSTEP_API_KEY. The /x402/ endpoints take an X-Payment header instead of a key.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free trial of 500 requests with no card and low rate limits. Starter $9 a month for 5,000 requests (150 concurrent), Standard $99 for 200,000 (500 concurrent), Scale $399 for 1 million. Credit packs from $20 for 10,000, valid 6 months. A scrape is 1 credit, parsers 1 to 5, LLM extraction 10, search 5, answers 20, crawl 1 per page, map 1 plus 1 per extra 1,000 URLs (https://www.olostep.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$9 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "partial",
        "evidence": "Documented x402 on POST /v1/scrapes and /v1/maps at $0.01, /v1/answers at $0.05 and /v1/crawls at a dynamic price, USDC on Base, under the /x402/ path prefix (https://docs.olostep.com/x402.md). Our unpaid POST to /x402/v1/scrapes on 2026-09-30 returned 402 with an empty {} body and no PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, so a stock x402 client has no price to sign.",
        "endpoints": [
          {
            "url": "https://api.olostep.com/x402/v1/scrapes",
            "priceUsd": 0.01,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://api.olostep.com/x402/v1/maps",
            "priceUsd": 0.01,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://api.olostep.com/x402/v1/answers",
            "priceUsd": 0.05,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://api.olostep.com/x402/v1/crawls",
            "priceUsd": null,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          }
        ]
      },
      "toolCount": 11,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 24,
        "npmWeekly": 8874,
        "pypiWeekly": 1976,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.olostep.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.olostep.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.olostep.com/openapi/scrapes.json",
      "registryName": "io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.extract",
        "web.crawl",
        "web.search",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot",
        "scraping.serp"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "openapi",
        "x402",
        "free-tier"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 63.1,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 210,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 87,
          "maintenance": 58,
          "payments": 65,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 28,
          "transparency": 60
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "OpenAPI 3.0.3 for every endpoint and a structured error body. The x402 challenge came back with no payment requirements in our probe.",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.0.3 for every endpoint and a structured error body",
          "500 free successful requests with no card, $9 a month after that",
          "x402 documented on scrapes, maps, answers and crawls at $0.01 to $0.05",
          "Batches of up to 100,000 URLs with cursor pagination",
          "All 11 MCP tools carry readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The x402 challenge came back with no payment requirements in our probe",
          "One dashboard key with no documented scopes, rotation or revocation",
          "No 429 or per-minute rate limits documented",
          "No security page, security.txt or prompt-injection guidance",
          "Changelog last updated 18 June 2026"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 63.1
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 58,
          "payments": 65,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 28,
          "transparency": 38
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.olostep.com/v1/scrapes -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OLOSTEP_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url_to_scrape\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http olostep https://mcp.olostep.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $OLOSTEP_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "olostep": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "olostep-mcp"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "OLOSTEP_API_KEY": "${OLOSTEP_API_KEY}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/olostep"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 9,
          "note": "5,000 requests"
        },
        {
          "item": "Standard plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "200,000 requests"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 399,
          "note": "1 million requests"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scrape on Starter",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.8,
          "note": "1 credit per basic scrape"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scrape on Standard",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.495
        },
        {
          "item": "x402 scrape",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "USDC on Base"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Olostep Technologies Inc.",
        "domain": "olostep.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2023-06-04",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.olostep.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.olostep.com/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.olostep.com",
        "changelog": "https://www.olostep.com/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Terms are governed by Delaware law",
          "Status page is hosted on Better Stack"
        ],
        "score": 82
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "olostep",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.olostep.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:51.437678121Z",
          "lastOk": true,
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          "lastMs": 328,
          "authRequired": false,
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              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.olostep.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:17.332165528Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server",
            "version": "1.0.17",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-03T23:29:28.630222764Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:34:58.614176741Z"
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "olostep-mcp",
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:34:59.676179372Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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        ],
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://olostep.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:38.639334332Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.olostep.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:03.986940018Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "olostep.com",
          "registered": "2023-06-04",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/olostep.com",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.olostep.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:34.190651562Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.olostep.com/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.olostep.com/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:51.437678121Z"
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    },
    "b": {
      "slug": "scrapingant",
      "name": "ScrapingAnt",
      "vendor": "ScrapingAnt (DATAANT)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://scrapingant.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Scraping API that runs each request in headless Chrome behind rotating datacenter or residential proxies, with markdown and AI extraction endpoints, a 3-tool hosted MCP server and standalone proxies billed by the GB.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "scrapingant-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@scrapingant/scrapingant-client"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "API key as an x-api-key header or an x-api-key query parameter. The docs' examples use the query form. The hosted MCP takes the same key in an x-api-key header. The usage endpoint only documents the query form.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "10,000 free credits a month, no card, one concurrent request. Enthusiast $19 a month (100,000 credits), Startup $49 (500,000), Business $249 (3M), Business Pro $599 (8M), Custom from $699 (10M+). A plain request on a datacenter proxy costs 1 credit, headless Chrome with JS rendering 10 (the default), Chrome plus residential proxy 125, and the AI extractor adds 1 credit per 30 characters. Failed requests aren't charged. Residential proxies $3 to $6 a GB and datacenter $0.42 to $0.60 a GB, billed separately (https://scrapingant.com/#pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$19 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 or other agent payment rail in the docs, pricing or API responses (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 3,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": 90,
        "pypiWeekly": 1969,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.scrapingant.com",
      "capabilities": [
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        "web.extract",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot"
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        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "proxies",
        "closed-source",
        "python",
        "typescript"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2024-07-16",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 35.9,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 440,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 14,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 30,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 10,
          "transparency": 57
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        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.",
        "strengths": [
          "10,000 free credits a month with no card",
          "No concurrency cap on paid plans",
          "Failed requests cost nothing, and the Ant-credits-cost header reports spend per call",
          "3-tool hosted MCP with header auth, cheap to load into context",
          "Named Polish entity with processors and hosting locations listed"
        ],
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          "No status page, changelog, security.txt, llms.txt or OpenAPI spec",
          "SDKs are stale. JavaScript last released 2022-05-06, Python 2024-07-16",
          "No prompt-injection guidance for the pages it returns",
          "Privacy policy last updated 3 November 2020"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string",
          "Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10",
          "Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits",
          "On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish",
          "Google, Bing and Yandex result pages come back as raw HTML through `/v2/general`, so you parse them yourself"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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            "score": 35.9
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 30,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 10,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "provenanceScore": 66
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl 'https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/markdown?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com' -H \"x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add scrapingant --transport http https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp -H \"x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "scrapingant": {
              "headers": {
                "x-api-key": "${SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY}"
              },
              "url": "https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingant"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
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        {
          "item": "Enthusiast plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 19,
          "note": "100,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Startup plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "500,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Business plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 249,
          "note": "3,000,000 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Default browser request on Enthusiast",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.9,
          "note": "10 credits each, headless Chrome and datacenter proxy"
        },
        {
          "item": "Plain request on Enthusiast",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.19,
          "note": "1 credit each, no browser, datacenter proxy"
        },
        {
          "item": "Residential proxy",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 6,
          "note": "Micro plan, 5 GB for $30 a month. Falls to $3 at volume"
        },
        {
          "item": "Datacenter proxy",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 0.6,
          "note": "Micro plan, 50 GB for $30 a month"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "DATAANT SP. Z O.O.",
        "domain": "scrapingant.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2020-03-31",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://scrapingant.com/legal/terms-of-use",
        "privacy": "https://scrapingant.com/legal/privacy-policy",
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        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
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          "Registered in Poland, KRS 0000848755, per the terms and privacy policy",
          "The privacy policy was last updated 3 November 2020 and predates the MCP server and AI extractor",
          "The site footer links no status page, changelog or security page"
        ],
        "score": 66
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "scrapingant",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general",
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          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:54.147120957Z",
          "lastOk": true,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
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            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
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            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingant.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingant.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Olostep for reliability (+30), schema \u0026 documentation (+41), agent ergonomics (+21), security \u0026 auth (+18), payments \u0026 pricing (+25), maintenance \u0026 community (+53).\n\nPick ScrapingAnt for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Olostep | ScrapingAnt | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 30 | Olostep +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 43 | Olostep +41 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 66 | Olostep +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 10 | Olostep +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 65 | 40 | Olostep +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 5 | Olostep +53 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 57 | Olostep +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.1 · B** | **35.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Olostep | ScrapingAnt |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Olostep Technologies, Inc. | ScrapingAnt (DATAANT) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.olostep.com` | `https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | no |\n| Licence | MIT | none |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | 3 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2024-07-16 |\n| Popularity | 24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 90 npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**ScrapingAnt.** 10,000 free credits a month with no card. API Basics puts the key in the query string, so it lands in logs.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Olostep\n\n1. For more than a handful of URLs use /v1/batches, then page results with the cursor\n2. Pass `storage.expires_in` if you need results after about 7 days\n3. Don't ask for json output without a `parser` or an `llm_extract` schema\n4. Hosted MCP wants `Authorization: Bearer`, stdio wants OLOSTEP_API_KEY. Mixing them up shows 0 tools\n5. Check the 402 body before paying over x402. Our probe got an empty one\n\n### ScrapingAnt\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header rather than the query string\n2. Use `/v2/markdown` for LLM input, and set `browser=false` on static pages to pay 1 credit instead of 10\n3. Switch to `proxy_type=residential` only after a 423 (anti-bot) response. It raises a browser request from 10 to 125 credits\n4. On the free plan a second concurrent request gets 409. Wait for the first to finish\n5. 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