Exa vs Olostep vs Firecrawl

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

Your tool
Exa
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Competitor 1
Olostep
Competitor 2
Firecrawl
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Exa: Tavily85% Parallel Web Systems84% Brave Search API80% You.com74% SearchCans70% Perplexity Sonar API70% Jina Reader68% LuminixAI68%
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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 Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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Competitor Firecrawl
firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl is a web data API that gives AI agents and applications clean content from the live web.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
27.5Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▲ 13.3%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
+269.4%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#1,046,647
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
21.6K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
42%
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Pages / visit
4.3
2.0
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Visit duration
3m 23s
56s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
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ExaOlostepFirecrawl
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
$9per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Output
DataText
DataText
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
7
3
2
Website crawling
Web scraping
AI search
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Search engine
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Research
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Website monitoring
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Development
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.