Olostep review (2026): is it worth $9 a month?
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Olostep report card
Good · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for scraping and crawling web pages in large batches
Olostep scrapes, crawls and maps pages, with batch jobs, search and answer endpoints and people and company search. Starter is $9 a month for 5,000 requests, but the free trial is only 500 requests, and AI browser automations need the $399 plan.
Who Olostep is for
- Fits if you need to scrape lots of URLs in batches cheaply
- Works for people testing a scraper before committing
Who Olostep is not for
- Tight if you stay free: the trial is 500 requests, once
- Watch out: AI browser automations are listed from Scale at $399 a month
- Watch out: only monthly prices are shown and no yearly discount is listed
- Pricey if you grow: Growth is $1,100 a month and the top tier $3,500, through sales
Why Olostep gets a 2.6
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for money$9 a month for 5,000 requests, under 60% of the cheapest quarter of this category ($19). The 200,000-request Standard plan is $99.
- CFree plan and trialA trial of 500 successful requests with no card, but it is not a monthly allowance and the page does not say it refills.
- CFeaturesScrape, crawl, map, batches, search and answer endpoints and people search. AI browser automations start at Scale.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. It is an API, with keys and code to write.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, but it lists Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n, LangChain and Slack.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Olostep's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/olostep#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/olostep.svg" alt="Olostep: 2.6 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Olostep stands among SERP and SEO data APIs
Olostep's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 39 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 5.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 44 of 48) and worst on features (C, above 1).
Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 2 of the 33 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 49 SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, cut by the letter each got. Olostep’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 44 of 48, level with 4
- CFree plan and trialAbove 3 of 48, level with 39
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 48, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 48, level with 45
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 12 of 48, level with 36
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 34 SERP and SEO data APIs. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Olostep, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Olostep you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 39 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade. It costs $108 a year.
What you could not
- Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- A search engine with an AI model behind it.
- It plugs into other products, Claude Desktop, Cursor and n8n among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Olostep’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Olostep?
Olostep is an API for pulling data from websites. Its endpoints cover scraping, crawling, URL mapping, batch jobs, search, AI answers, monitoring and people and company search. Plans are monthly request allowances, and every request is JavaScript rendered through residential IP addresses.
Worth knowing
- The pricing page does not say whether the 500 trial requests refill; it is shown as a trial, not a monthly allowance.
- AI browser automations are listed from the Scale plan up.
- Top-up credit packs are valid for 6 months, from $5 for 2,000 credits to $1,000 for 2,000,000.
- Only monthly prices are shown; no annual discount is stated on the pricing page.
Key features
- Scrape, crawl and map
- Separate endpoints fetch a single page, crawl a site, or list a site's URLs.
- Batch processing
- Batch jobs run thousands of URLs together, from 5,000 URLs in 20 minutes on Starter to 1 million on Growth+.
- Search and Answer APIs
- A search endpoint and an AI answers endpoint sit beside the scraping ones, and a Monitor API appears in the endpoint list.
- People and company search
- A dedicated endpoint for looking up people and companies is listed with the other APIs.
- Agents and integrations
- An MCP server and CLI serve agents. The integrations page lists Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n and LangChain.
Olostep pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Olostep is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per month for 5,000 requests.
- Starts at
- $9 per month for 5,000 requests
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial plan: 500 successful requests, no credit card required.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | $0 | 500 successful requests with JavaScript rendering and residential IPs, low rate limits, no card needed. |
| Starter | $9per month for 5,000 requests | $1.80 per 1,000 requests, 20 concurrent requests, batches of 5,000 URLs in 20 minutes. |
| Standard | $99per month for 200,000 requests | $0.50 per 1,000 requests, 200 concurrent requests, batches of 10,000 URLs in 20 minutes. |
| Scale | $399per month for 1 million requests | $0.40 per 1,000 requests, 500 concurrent, AI browser automations, batches of 100,000 URLs. |
| Growth | $1,100per month for 3 million requests | $0.37 per 1,000 requests, 750 concurrent requests, batches of 200,000 URLs in 20 minutes. |
| Growth+ | $3500per month for 10 million requests | $0.35 per 1,000 requests, 1,000 concurrent requests. Sold through sales. |
Read from olostep.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Olostep before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Olostep have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Olostep is listed for Web.
Does Olostep have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Olostep is listed for Web.
Is Olostep open source?
Olostep is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Olostep have an API?
Yes. Olostep offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.