Tavily vs CometAPI vs Firecrawl vs Olostep

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

Your tool
Tavily
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Competitor 1
CometAPI
Competitor 2
Firecrawl
Competitor 3
Olostep
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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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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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
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302.3Kvisits/mo
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27.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 9.9%
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▲ 13.3%
6-month growth
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-16.5%
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+269.4%
Global rank web
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#157,147
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#1,046,647
Avg. last 3 months
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295.7K
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21.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
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46%
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42%
Pages / visit
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2.9
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2.0
Visit duration
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38s
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56s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
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● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
TavilyCometAPIFirecrawlOlostep
0208.6K417.2K625.8K834.4KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5K1K10K100K1MCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$4per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
Plans
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
ImagesText
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Output
Text
ImagesTextVideo
DataText
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI 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
Webscraping
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Web scraping
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Website crawling
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Web search
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Developer tools
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Agents
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Website to JSON
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LLM gateway
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API integrations
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Events monitoring
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Markdown conversion
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Searching
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Website interaction
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Website monitoring
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Image generation
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Monitoring
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Real time web analysis
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Research
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Text extraction
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Video generation
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