Olostep vs Defapi vs Elicit vs Tavily

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

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Olostep
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DDefapi
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Elicit
Competitor 3
Tavily
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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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 Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
27.5Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 13.3%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 37.4%
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6-month growth
+269.4%
-86.2%
+0.1%
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Global rank web
#1,046,647
#4,650,820
#2,562,886
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Avg. last 3 months
21.6K
4.8K
12.3K
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Bounce rate lower is better
42%
36%
37%
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Pages / visit
2.0
1.4
1.5
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Visit duration
56s
7s
4s
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Traffic sources
● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
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OlostepDefapiElicitTavily
06.9K13.8K20.6K27.5KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2K1K10K100KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$9per month · free tier available
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$10per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
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
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Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextImagesAudio
DocumentsText
Web pagesText
Output
DataText
ImagesTextAudio
TextData
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
10
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11
APIs
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Webscraping
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Web scraping
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Web search
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Website crawling
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Research
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Academic research
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Research assistance
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Research papers
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API management
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Agents
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Developer tools
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Events monitoring
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Literature reviews
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Markdown conversion
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Research papers analysis
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Searching
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Website monitoring
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Medical research
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Monitoring
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Real time web analysis
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Text extraction
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Website to JSON
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