Exa vs Apify vs Olostep

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Exa
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Competitor 1
Apify
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Olostep
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Exa: Tavily85% Parallel Web Systems84% Brave Search API80% You.com74% Firecrawl72% SearchCans70% Perplexity Sonar API70% Jina Reader68%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor Apify
apify.com
Apify is a web scraping and automation platform built around a marketplace of ready-to-run programs called Actors.
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Competitor Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
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27.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 9.9%
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▲ 13.3%
6-month growth
+16.3%
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+269.4%
Global rank web
#55,392
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#1,046,647
Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
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21.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
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42%
Pages / visit
4.3
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2.0
Visit duration
3m 23s
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56s
Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
ExaApifyOlostep
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$19per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeStarter $19/moScale $199/moBusiness $999/mo+1 more
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Output
DataText
Data
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Website crawling
APIs
Web scraping
Webscraping
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AI search
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Search engine
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Events monitoring
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Instagram scraping
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Lead generation
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Maps data scraping
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Markdown conversion
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Research
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Social media scraping
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Web search
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Website monitoring
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Development
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Monitoring
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Process automation
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Website to JSON
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