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Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Olostep vs Spider

Spider has a score of 74.3 (BB) against Olostep's 63.1 (B). Both do scraping. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 31 points. Spider accepts x402. Olostep doesn't.

OlostepOlostep Technologies, Inc. · HTTP API B63.1/100#210 of 452 SpiderSpider (BAGELMEN LLC) · HTTP API BB74.3/100#49 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Olostep for

  • agent ergonomics (+17)

Pick Spider for

  • reliability (+20)
  • security & auth (+14)
  • payments & pricing (+31)
  • maintenance & community (+27)
  • transparency & trust (+9)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOlostepSpiderEdge
Reliability16%206080Spider +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28487Spider +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.28770Olostep +17
Security & auth14%17.52842Spider +14
Payments & pricing10%12.56596Spider +31
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85885Spider +27
Transparency & trust7%8.86069Spider +9
Negative events≤1500
Total63.1 · B74.3 · BB

Facts side by side

FactOlostepSpider
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOlostep Technologies, Inc.Spider (BAGELMEN LLC)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.olostep.comhttps://api.spider.cloud
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
x402payer tooling onlyyes, from $0.0005/call
LicenceMITMIT
Tools exposed1122
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryio.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-servercloud.spider/mcp
Last release2026-07-152026-07-19
Popularity24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (2)3.3/5 (8)

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.

Spider

Keyless /scrape and working x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account. Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy.

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

Spider

  1. Every content route returns a JSON array, even /scrape. The status field is the page's, not the API call's
  2. Leave request on smart and set return_format to markdown for LLM input
  3. Set limit on /crawl. Unset, it caps only at your credit balance
  4. Use /scrape with stealth: true instead of /unblocker, which is deprecated
  5. Honour Retry-After on 429. Keyless use allows 4 requests a minute

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