# Olostep vs Zyte API (slim)

> Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Olostep's 63 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Olostep leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do scraping. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Olostep's 63 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Olostep leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do scraping.

- Olostep: B 63, rank #370 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #166 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md
- Olostep, good for Bulk scraping on a budget and for batch jobs of thousands of URLs. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 87 against 72; Payments & pricing, 65 against 40. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Zyte API, good for An agent or pipeline that fetches protected pages and wants the service to choose proxy and browser per site and to bill only success, and teams already on Scrapy. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 60; Security & auth, 55 against 28; Maintenance & community, 77 against 58; Transparency & trust, 66 against 58.

| Category | Olostep | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 87 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 28 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 65 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Olostep | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Olostep Technologies, Inc. | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.olostep.com` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for scraping | $0.495 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Zyte's terms of service. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause, and the Agentic Web Data plugin is under Zyte's own end-user licence |
| Tools exposed | 11 | 34 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.olostep/olostep-mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-15 | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-07-15 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 24 stars, 8.9k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |