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    Apify

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AApify is a platform for web data extraction and automation. The core component is the Apify Store, a marketplace where developers can publish and monetize serverless cloud programs called Actors. Key Capabilities Serverless Automation Programs: Developers author Actors using JavaScript or Python. The Apify Store provides pre-built programs for tasks such as e-commerce data extraction, map scraping, price monitoring, and social media content aggregation. Web…

    $29

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    Apify
    Editions & Modules
    Starter Plan
    $29
    per month
    Scale Plan
    $199
    per month
    Business Plan
    $999
    per month
    Apify for Enterprise
    Custom
    Fully-customized web scraping and automation solution for any scale.
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    Pricing Offerings
    Apify
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    Additional DetailsThe 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.
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    Community Pulse
    Apify
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    Much more fair priced and more APIs available
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    Apify has been able to provide much better integration with Facebook enabling us to customise how we present our recent Facebook posts on our website.
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    I use mostly social media scrapers and also WhatsApp number verification, which is a feature that is really useful.
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    The difference lies in the price. Apify is very affordable considering what you get.
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    Apify is much better because the data source is much more up to date.
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    I don't have to make workflows for something that my AI agent can do with the help of Apify. It's faster for me nowadays. Love that you can use Apify on social media data.
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    I only used Apify because it was the first one that was recommended to me.
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    Not used much.
    Incentivized
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    Apify is economical and effective
    Incentivized
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    I used local Playwright and Crawlee for building scrapers and automations tools like n8n. For a one-off scraping job, running it locally is perfectly fine. Apify comes into play, when you need that data scheduled or on a regular basis. It combines all the tools in one place, …
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    Larger variety
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    I use Oxylabs and ScraperAPI as paid backup tools; I also have backup parsers on my own VPS, set up to run on a timer. They solve the problem of retrieving data but do not help to present it as a product or find a buyer. I chose Apify because it turns a parser into something …
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    I used RapidAPI and HikerAPI for Instagram-related tasks, but I didn't see them on your list. RapidAPI requires separate subscriptions for different scrapers, which is inconvenient, and finding the right scrapers is a hassle too. There aren't any proper instructions for AI …
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    The clear path for actor usage is a plus. I have tested other providers on more features, such as residential proxies, to run custom functions, but I have not yet tested them on Apify.
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    Apify doesn't necessarily stack up against these, but it integrates perfectly with Claude Code to allow me to build a system where they are all connected together. Apify is the first line of defense and offense, and without it, none of the others are really relevant. Apify is …
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    It gets ip limits and stuff whereas apify doesn’t hit those walls, additionally when claude tries to scrap leads it costs much more as many more tokens are used up compared to Apify and on top of all of that it does a considerably horrible job at finding quality leads compared …
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    no idea, I use Apify only
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    Yes, apollo is worse and more expensive. With Apify I can use all kinds of actors for my mentioned use cases.
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    i haven't tried anything else
    Incentivized
    Chose Apify
    It's way more affordable and does just as good of a job as Apollo.
    Incentivized
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    It compliments Clay I don't think of it as of competitor
    Incentivized
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    Apify is 100% better in every domain. Also, you have the option to choose another actor if this one doesn't work, whereas with Octoparse you are very limited to their provided actors or to creating your own, and it's a learning curve again. It's also way more expensive to use Oc…
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    I dont know any other products like apify, if i want to scrape the web, i usually make my own script, but sometimes that has its limits, so i use apify instead for more complex anti bot like tiktok
    Incentivized
    Chose Apify
    The best thing is the connection via MCP (I use Claude Code for that) and the ease of saying a prompt, searching among thousands of actors, and getting a good number of leads. The free plan to start is also awesome.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    170 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    161 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    170 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    149 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    166 Answers
    User Ratings
    Apify
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (174 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (165 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apify
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apify
    Apify is great when I need to collect data from public websites and get the export in a structured format, such as product catalogs, contacts, and location details, and if that data must be exported on a regular basis, the same actor can be reused again and again. However, when I need just a one-off task or information, Apify is less useful, as writing a script directly is much faster and cheaper. The platform is also less useful, when the website or provider where I need data in a structure format, has already some sort of an API or MCP connection available, then it makes sense just using the API I need, rather then a web scraper.
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    Pros
    Apify
    • They feature a massive actor library, so you don't have to build everything from scratch or maintain it.
    • Scheduling + web hooks makes automating data collection super easy.
    • Easy to scale from small tests to much bigger scraping jobs and fairly cheap to scale.
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    Cons
    Apify
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apify
    It's the best because you can just load in a limited amount of money and limit your financial exposure to using a tool like this. so renewing isn't a big consideration... i know that i'm going to need the tool in the future and i'll load it with money accordingly when im ready.
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    Usability
    Apify
    Extremely easy when connected via MCP with Claude Co-Work. I do not really understand the Apify website itself. It's a bit confusing, but when I use Claude as an operator and translator, it is absolutely a game-changer. Whenever I have an issue, I ask Claude to connect to Apify and ask what the best way for me to do things is. Should I use the Google Maps scraper in this area or this area? Which one has the highest chance of giving me the best results that I need? Claude's code can completely simplify the whole process, which makes the whole thing a lot easier for me to make faster and better decisions. I do not know what I would do now without Apify. My business cannot even be a business without it.
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    Support Rating
    Apify
    We never needed to contact support directly because the platform was always clear and easy to use. The documentation is thorough, there are plenty of how-to guides, and YouTube.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apify
    1. Strategy for Anti-Blocking & Proxies 2. Cost Optimization (Compute Units) 3. Data Management & Storage
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apify
    I use Oxylabs and ScraperAPI as paid backup tools; I also have backup parsers on my own VPS, set up to run on a timer. They solve the problem of retrieving data but do not help to present it as a product or find a buyer. I chose Apify because it turns a parser into something you can sell, and the proxies come as part of the infrastructure. Running your own infrastructure is cheaper—until you factor in the hours spent maintaining it.
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    Return on Investment
    Apify
    • Apify has delivered great ROI from the sheer time saved by not having to do even short-ish tasks manually.
    • By saving us from repetitive data entry, we can focus on much bigger things while Apify runs in the background.
    • The risk-free actor pricing structure lets us test and deploy new automated pipelines with zero upfront commitment.
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    ScreenShots

    Apify Screenshots

    Screenshot of a marketplace of 10,000+ ready-made Actors for scraping Amazon, Google Maps, social media, tracking prices, and generating leads.Screenshot of Actors, which feature an auto-generated UI for setting their input.Screenshot of the Actors' scheduling and integration interface, where users can connect them with platforms such as Zapier, the Google Suite, GitHub or feed LLMs through LangChain and LlamaIndex.Screenshot of web scraping templates that can be used to build Actors. Users can also import existing code from a Git repo and publish a project in the Apify Store and earn passive income.Screenshot of Crawlee, Apify’s open-source web scraping library used to build reliable web scrapers that don’t get blocked. Available in Python and Node.js