Parallel Monitor API vs Olostep vs Context.dev vs BrowserAct

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

Your tool
Parallel Monitor API
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Competitor 1
Olostep
Competitor 2
Context.dev
Competitor 3
BrowserAct
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Parallel Monitor API
docs.parallel.ai
The Monitor API is a tool designed for continuous tracking of web changes relevant to a user-defined
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Competitor Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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Competitor Context.dev
context.dev
Brand.dev is a web scraping API for AI agents and LLM products.
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Competitor BrowserAct
browseract.com
BrowserAct is a no-code web scraping platform that builds a reusable scraper from one prompt.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
24Kvisits/mo
27.5Kvisits/mo
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163.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 13.7%
▲ 13.3%
▲ 26.4%
▲ 12.3%
6-month growth
+18.8%
+269.4%
-68.4%
-5.0%
Global rank web
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#1,046,647
#3,017,624
#275,930
Avg. last 3 months
24.6K
21.6K
4.7K
147.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
49%
42%
0%
42%
Pages / visit
2.3
2.0
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2.5
Visit duration
2m 15s
56s
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1m 07s
Traffic sources
● Direct 69% · ● Referral 31%
● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
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● Direct 76% · ● Referral 23%
Parallel Monitor APIOlostepContext.devBrowserAct
043K86.1K129.1K172.1KParallel Monitor API · 35KParallel Monitor API · 24KParallel Monitor API · 20.4KParallel Monitor API · 20.2KParallel Monitor API · 17KParallel Monitor API · 13.2KParallel Monitor API · 22KParallel Monitor API · 27.8KParallel Monitor API · 24KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5K1K10K100K1MParallel Monitor API · 35KParallel Monitor API · 24KParallel Monitor API · 20.4KParallel Monitor API · 20.2KParallel Monitor API · 17KParallel Monitor API · 13.2KParallel Monitor API · 22KParallel Monitor API · 27.8KParallel Monitor API · 24KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$9.99per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Search API CustomExtract API CustomTask API CustomMonitor API Custom+1 more
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Plan $19.0 $19/moPlan $99.0 $99/moPlan $299.0 $299/moPlan $499.0 $499/mo+1 more
Free FreeBasic $16/moEssential $70/moAdvanced $120/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
TextWeb pages
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TextWeb pages
Output
Data
DataText
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Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI APIAI Monitor
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeResearch & AnalyticsAI APIAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
7
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6
Web scraping
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Website crawling
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Webscraping
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APIs
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Events monitoring
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Website monitoring
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Monitoring
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Website to JSON
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Developer tools
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Markdown conversion
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No-code
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Web search
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Agents
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Competitive analysis
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Executive tracking
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Financial monitoring
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Price search
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Regulation monitoring
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Research
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Text extraction
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Prompts
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