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Olostep pricing and alternatives: web search API

Olostep's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 334 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Trial one of Olostep's 8 plans
Call: POST /v1/searches Olostep's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Olostep's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/searches. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Olostep: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Olostep's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Olostep's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Olostep, $399 monthlyContext.dev, $20 monthlyGeekflare, $50 packLLMLayer, top-upSearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /ask
$ per 1,000 searches$1.995$2.00$2.00$2.00$2.079
Completeness17%17%50%33%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Pay$399$20$50any amount$4,990
Enough for200,000 calls a month10,000 calls a month25,000 callsas many as you pay for200,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority), or 13 or older with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, with the authority to enter the Agreement and not prohibited by law from using the Servicesanyone

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.olostep.com
  2. docs.olostep.com/api-reference/searches/create
  3. docs.olostep.com/features/search
  4. olostep.com/apis/company-data-api
  5. olostep.com/pricing
  6. olostep.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search25
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Create Scrape · Create Batch · Create Crawl · Create Map · Create Answer
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the web with natural language and get structured links — Olostep’s AI search API.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou will use the Services only in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and only for the use cases you have disclosed to us (if applicable). [...] The following are prohibited activities under this Agreement: Use the Services for any commercial purposes except as expressly authorized by Olostep, Reproduce any portion of the Services in any form or by any means, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, Modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Services in any manner, Use the Services for any unlawful activities or in violation of any laws, regulations, or contractual provisions, Use the Services to promote violence, degradation, subjugation, discrimination or hatred against individuals or groups, Access another's account without permission, Decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code of the Services, Use the Services for debt collection purposes, Use the Services for hard background check purposes, Use the Services to determine eligibility for a government license, Use the Services for any purpose prohibited by applicable data privacy and security laws, including the GDPR or CCPA, Use our Services to benefit any government agency operating as an intelligence agency whose purpose is to collect and analyze data on people, Use the Services for any evidentiary purpose related to law enforcement or criminal prosecution without proper authorization, Use or resell Services in connection with any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Scrape websites that explicitly prohibit automated access in their terms of service or robots.txt files, Overload or attempt to disrupt target websites or our infrastructure
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: storage.expires_in, limit, include_domains, exclude_domains, fast_mode, scrape_options.formats, scrape_options.remove_css_selectors, scrape_options.timeout
MethodPOST
Path/v1/searches
About the plan
PlanTrial
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority), or 13 or older with a parent's or guardian's permission
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, created at, metadata, query, credits consumed, page title, URL, snippet, hosted JSON URL, storage expiry, size exceeded, JSON content

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