Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform that helps anyone get value from the web. At its core is Apify Store, a marketplace where developers build, publish, and monetize automation tools called Actors. Actors are serverless cloud programs that extract data, automate web tasks, and run AI agents. Developers build them using JavaScript, Python, or tools like Crawlee, Apify's open-source web scraping library. Build an Actor once, publish it to Store, and…
$29
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$29
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Scale Plan
$199
per month
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$999
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Apify for Enterprise
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Fully-customized web scraping and automation solution for any scale.
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The lowest-priced plan that has all the features needed and is recommended as a starting point. If users exceed the platform usage credits for a plan, a notification is sent, and the excess usage will be added to the next invoice or the user can upgrade to a higher plan.
If I would not have come across Apify I would have built my own scrapers and extractors but this would have been very time consuming and intense in maintenance so the main advantage was that it was working very quickly, it had all the scrapers I needed and it just kept working …
i tried PhantomBuster and ScraperAPI before but Apify is way better for technical stuff... PhantomBuster is okay for linkedin but too limited with their recipes while Apify lets u customize everything with actors. ScraperAPI is just proxies but Apify is a whole platform with …
Apify is more data heavy than Apollo and can be used to greater effect. Also, Apollo is not a very user friendly service and Apify is much more easily navigable than Apollo.
I don't know the competitors, but why look elsewhere for something that works so well? je ne connais pas les concurrents mais pourquoi aller chercher ailleurs ce qui fonctionne si bien.
Apify stacks up against them because it gives users independence. n8n is a visual platform, but it limits your creativity and is considered a low-hanging or low-code platform. However, Apify is not like this. Apify is developed for programmers with a serverless platform. It …
Apify is in a league of it's own in terms of flexibility and the ability to connect the API into lead generation automations on n8n or Make.com. The variety of actors available is much larger than most other scraping sources and for anyone looking for lead enrichment, it is …
Apify does its own thing and delivers value based on its core features, but I still rate Apify as my number one platform for finding and using web scrapers. In terms of how it stacks, I use Apify alongside Bright Data for web research workflows.
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At least for us, it stacks up favorably against n8n. While n8n is an excellent product, it isn't built for heavy scraping or large-scale automation. On the other hand, Apify is a platform built with the purpose of scaling. It handles the hardest parts out of the box, letting us …
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way simpler both in usage and compliance
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Apify stood out mainly for its ease of use. The interface is much more intuitive, and the learning curve is far shorter, especially for those who are not highly technical.
Another major advantage is the availability of community-built pre-built actors. While other platforms …
Apify excels at mass data tracking, like monitoring e-commerce pricing or scraping dynamic websites cost-effectively. Its pre-built automations are great for plugging data into automation stacks. It is less appropriate for simple, one-time tasks where a basic browser extension is faster, or for pure integration work where you just move data between standard apps without scraping the web.
I love how intuitive the interface is. Even without deep coding knowledge, I can set up workflows quickly. The ready‑made actors are extremely helpful and cover most of my use cases.
Apify makes it incredibly easy to automate repetitive web tasks. The platform is stable, the actors run smoothly, and the logs give me full visibility into every step.
Apify offers impressive flexibility — from custom actors to API integrations and scheduling options. It scales well even with large workloads, and the performance has been consistent.
I think monetization part needs some improvement. Sometimes it stops working.
Second issue is that when you run actor locally on your device using Apify run command, it runs fine and does not show errors. However, when you run on Apify platform, it starts showing error that this python based library is not supported etc. I think, error logging needs to be improved.
Issue support is very slow. If you create an issue it takes a lot of time that somebody reply.
Automated testing also needs to be improved. Testers run simple tests and if extra keys are used or something else, test is failed.
We rate Apify highly because it is easy to use and requires minimal monitoring. The platform offers ready-to-use Actors and workflow templates, enabling our team to launch data collection tasks quickly without extensive development. Once a workflow is configured and scheduled, it runs automatically in the background using Cursor or Claude Cowork, freeing our team to focus on analyzing results rather than managing the scraping process.
It was very easy to set up and remained very easy to use. I set it up once and did not have maintain it at all. It just kept working and it is doing its job which is exactly what I was looking for, a hassle free web data extractor
At first, we were skeptical about how smoothly it would integrate into our workflow, but after running a few tests using Cursor IDE, the results were immediately positive. The setup was straightforward and required minimal effort. Our blog now fully relies on the Apify API to scrape SERPs, which has become a core part of our content and data pipeline.
Apify is in a league of it's own in terms of flexibility and the ability to connect the API into lead generation automations on n8n or Make.com. The variety of actors available is much larger than most other scraping sources and for anyone looking for lead enrichment, it is definitely a great, cost-efficient resource.