Tavily vs Exa vs Defapi 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
Exa
Competitor 2
DDefapi
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 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 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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930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
27.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▲ 13.3%
6-month growth
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+16.3%
-86.2%
+269.4%
Global rank web
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#55,392
#4,650,820
#1,046,647
Avg. last 3 months
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844.7K
4.8K
21.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
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38%
36%
42%
Pages / visit
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4.3
1.4
2.0
Visit duration
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3m 23s
7s
56s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
TavilyExaDefapiOlostep
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 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 · 2.4KOlostep · 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 · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Starting price
Free tier
Free tier
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$9per month · free tier available
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API access
Plans
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
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
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
TextWeb pages
TextImagesAudio
TextWeb pages
Output
Text
TextData
ImagesTextAudio
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
11
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APIs
Website crawling
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Web scraping
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Webscraping
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Web search
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Research
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AI search
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Search engine
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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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Markdown conversion
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Searching
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Website monitoring
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Development
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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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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.