# Olostep vs Scrapingdog

> Olostep has a score of 63.1 (B) against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E). Both do scraping. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 43 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

Olostep has a score of 63.1 (B) against Scrapingdog's 39.3 (E). Both do scraping. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 43 points.

- Olostep: grade B, 63.1/100, rank #210 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/olostep.json
- Scrapingdog: grade E, 39.3/100, rank #425 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Olostep for schema & documentation (+41), agent ergonomics (+43), security & auth (+23), payments & pricing (+25), maintenance & community (+13).

Pick Scrapingdog for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Olostep | Scrapingdog | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 62 | Scrapingdog +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 43 | Olostep +41 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 44 | Olostep +43 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 5 | Olostep +23 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 65 | 40 | Olostep +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 45 | Olostep +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 57 | Olostep +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **63.1 · B** | **39.3 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Olostep | Scrapingdog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Olostep Technologies, Inc. | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.olostep.com` | `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | MIT | none |
| Tools exposed | 11 | 35 |
| 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.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-07-31 |
| Popularity | 24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |

## 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.

**Scrapingdog.** A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.

## 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

### Scrapingdog

1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says
2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key
3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed
4. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists

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