Olostep

Olostep is a developer-focused web data API from Olostep Technologies Inc., a startup founded in 2024 and backed by YC and Sequoia. It turns public web pages into clean output that AI applications can use, including HTML, Markdown, plain text or structured JSON. The product is a set of endpoints. Scrape handles single pages, Crawl and Map cover whole sites, and Batch runs large URL lists in roughly 20-minute windows. Search returns web results and Answers gives cited answers from live sources. Parsers come pre-built or are generated from a prompt, Monitors track page changes, and Agents run multi-step research from natural-language instructions. Requests are JavaScript-rendered and use residential IPs. Python and Node.js SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server let tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf and VS Code call it directly. Pricing is a flat monthly fee per organization, not per seat. Every account gets a free trial of 500 requests. Paid plans run from Starter at 9 USD a month for 5,000 requests to Growth+ at 3,500 USD a month for 10 million credits. Each step up raises the volume, the number of concurrent requests and the batch size. Credit packs from 5 USD are valid for six months, and Enterprise plans are custom. Olostep suits engineering teams building retrieval pipelines, research agents or data products. Its main limitation is how little evidence there is about it: independent user reviews are scarce, it publishes little on security or compliance, and you need to be able to write code to get value from it.