Apify vs. Bright Data

If you're looking for Linkedin data sourcing and for lead generation, Apify is definitely a cost-effective tool. The only issue is that you cannot necessarily bank a long-term process on it as you never know if an Actor is going to change or outright become unusable after a while. This is maybe the biggest downside.

• Social media scraping is phenomenal and allows you to have information practically in real time in seconds, which would otherwise be very laborious.
• Extracting data from a social network like TikTok also makes our data analysis much simpler.
• Extracting ideas from articles is now much easier, thanks to everything that can be achieved with the range of tools offered by Apify.

• sometimes the devs are working on one of the scrapers when it breaks and you don't really get a notice for that, it just doesn't work. Esp starts to be a problem when it's supposed to be running in the background.
• Loading cookies into the different actors is kind of a pain.
• vague pricing models. all the actors are priced differently, and the difference between "usage" "result" and "event" is pretty confusing

Incentivized

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.

Can be better better usage and better guides. For a platform so great, there are so so many ui/ux usage that can actually help in the retention of the platform’s users.

Though with some usage you start getting around as well. But it does require some time to segment the right actors

Incentivized

I was very happy with the support I received from Apify. They are always ready to answer all your questions and help solve problems you have.

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.

• No need to search for high-quality web-scrapers
• Its more costly than finding free solutions, but the advanced product of Apify will make up for that
• No need to worry about multiple different implementations for different products. You only have to care about the Apify implementation which saves you a lot of time

Incentivized