# Olostep review (2026): is it worth $9 a month? > Scrape, crawl and search API that returns clean web data Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** Olostep Technologies, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.olostep.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: the trial is 500 requests, once. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Olostep is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per month for 5,000 requests. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $9 per month for 5,000 requests | $1.80 per 1,000 requests, 20 concurrent requests, batches of 5,000 URLs in 20 minutes. | | Standard | $99 per month for 200,000 requests | $0.50 per 1,000 requests, 200 concurrent requests, batches of 10,000 URLs in 20 minutes. | | Scale | $399 per month for 1 million requests | $0.40 per 1,000 requests, 500 concurrent, AI browser automations, batches of 100,000 URLs. | | Growth | $1,100 per month for 3 million requests | $0.37 per 1,000 requests, 750 concurrent requests, batches of 200,000 URLs in 20 minutes. | | Growth+ | $3500 per month for 10 million requests | $0.35 per 1,000 requests, 1,000 concurrent requests. Sold through sales. | Read from https://www.olostep.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Olostep before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Developers who want a flat monthly request allowance for scraping - Teams running large batch jobs against many URLs - Small tests on the 500-request trial ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: A.** $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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A trial of 500 successful requests with no card, but it is not a monthly allowance and the page does not say it refills. - **Features: C.** Scrape, crawl, map, batches, search and answer endpoints and people search. AI browser automations start at Scale. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is an API, with keys and code to write. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it lists Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n, LangChain and Slack. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-data-apis ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: A search engine with an AI model behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude Desktop, Cursor and n8n among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n, LangChain, Slack **Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI agents, AI search ## Alternatives - [Firecrawl](https://toolgpa.com/tools/firecrawl): Web search, scrape and crawl API that returns LLM-ready data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firecrawl-vs-olostep) - [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapingbee) - [ZenRows](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zenrows): Web scraping API for protected sites, priced by monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olostep-vs-zenrows) - [Scrapfly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapfly): Web scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, browsers and AI extraction. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapfly) - [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olostep-vs-scraperapi) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.olostep.com/pricing - https://www.olostep.com/about - https://www.olostep.com/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/olostep Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).