Olostep vs Exa vs Defapi vs Elicit

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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Competitor 1
Exa
Competitor 2
DDefapi
Competitor 3
Elicit
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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 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 Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
27.5Kvisits/mo
930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 13.3%
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 37.4%
6-month growth
+269.4%
+16.3%
-86.2%
+0.1%
Global rank web
#1,046,647
#55,392
#4,650,820
#2,562,886
Avg. last 3 months
21.6K
844.7K
4.8K
12.3K
Bounce rate lower is better
42%
38%
36%
37%
Pages / visit
2.0
4.3
1.4
1.5
Visit duration
56s
3m 23s
7s
4s
Traffic sources
● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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OlostepExaDefapiElicit
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KExa · 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 · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2K1K10K100K1M10MOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KExa · 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 · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
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$10per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
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
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
Web pagesText
TextImagesAudio
TextDocuments
Output
DataText
TextData
TextImagesAudio
TextData
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Website crawling
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Web scraping
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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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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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Web search
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Website monitoring
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API security
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Development
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Medical research
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Monitoring
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Website to JSON
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