Exa vs Defapi vs Jina Reader 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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DDefapi
Competitor 2
Jina Reader
Competitor 3
Olostep
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor Jina Reader
jina.ai
Jina Reader converts a web page into clean, LLM-friendly Markdown.
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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
2.4Kvisits/mo
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27.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
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▲ 13.3%
6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
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+269.4%
Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
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#1,046,647
Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
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21.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
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42%
Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
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2.0
Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
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56s
Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
ExaDefapiJina ReaderOlostep
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KOlostep · 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 · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Free
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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Free
$9per month · free tier available
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API access
Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Free Tier FreePaid (Token-based) Custom
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Web pagesImagesDocuments
Web pagesText
Output
TextData
AudioImagesText
Text
TextData
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Document ExtractionAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
Web scraping
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Markdown conversion
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Web search
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AI search
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Search engine
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Webscraping
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API management
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Developer tools
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Events monitoring
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OCR
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Research
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Text extraction
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Website monitoring
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API security
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Development
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Monitoring
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RAG
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Website to JSON
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