Apify vs. WebStorm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apify
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
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
per month
WebStorm
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
WebStorm is an integrated development environment (IDE) by JetBrains. Designed for JavaScript and TypeScript development, WebStorm also aims to make it easy to tackle the most challenging tasks. Whether resolving Git merge conflicts or renaming a symbol across multiple files, it takes just a few clicks.
$0
per year
Pricing
ApifyWebStorm
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.
Individual Non-Commercial
$0
per year
Individual
$6.90
per month
Bussiness
$15.90
per month per user
Individual
$69
per year
Business
$159
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ApifyWebStorm
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
ApifyWebStorm
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(72 ratings)
9.3
(31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(63 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
9.4
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ApifyWebStorm
Likelihood to Recommend
Apify
I used other platforms such as n8n and make.com, and Apify seems more reliable because it is built for real developers. It gives much more independence than other platforms. Maybe in terms of storage and processing speed needs to be improvement for AI-generated content.
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JetBrains
Groups that use a [variety] of development environments (.net, python, web), Jebrain's products and Webstorm, in particular, are a great choice for productivity. If your developers are accustom to another IDE it might be better for all to sync on the same one. I wouldn't take the cost aspect as a consideration. A productive developer is far more important.
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Pros
Apify
  • 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.
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JetBrains
  • Includes a built in spell checker to eliminate time wasted searching for small mistakes.
  • Provides a drop down menu of options complete with keyboard shortcuts that allow for streamlined programming.
  • Identifies when variables are named differently, allowing for cohesive work without the scrolling.
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Cons
Apify
  • Some actors are very expensive and offer limited value - $120 / month before event charges? That's insane. The monthly price also isn't listed in the main search screen, so you need to go in manually to each actor to ascertain how much it really costs
  • Some actors often break after a while and you need to start searching for new ones... but I guess that's the price for relying on 3rd party actors in your marketplace
  • The review/quality process isn't great to navigate when looking for a new tool.
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JetBrains
  • The popup file search sometimes frustrates me. It caps the number of results, and sometimes it isn't clear that it simply stopped looking. I also used to have trouble finding string occurrences that I knew were in my project, but I think they've made improvements in this area recently.
  • Being a AAA IDE, WebStorm can be a memory hog. If I don't kill it every few days, it can get really slow. I would love to see performance improvements.
  • Speaking of performance, WebStorm can take a long time to launch. I'd like to see improvements in launch times.
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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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JetBrains
It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.
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Usability
Apify
Very very easy to use, subscriber in a heartbeat. Most of the apps available you may need to explore a bit, but generally you’ll be able to find what you’re looking for and it will get the job done. The ability to choose what you want to do with it and for independent providers being able to place their apps in the marketplace makes it strong
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JetBrains
Great in debugging, testing, developing and maintaining softwares in a number of languages. Great support for many languages and their syntaxes. Great support of many third party extensions and plugins like GIT and html plugins. The RAM usage of WebStorm however could be really improved, it literally takes almost all of the RAM of my machine with 16GB RAM
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Support Rating
Apify
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.
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JetBrains
I gave this rating because I have never needed their customer support, which is the highest level of support I suppose. When a product works just fine out of the box and everything you may need is well documented, it's a paradise for the customer. But I've seen some questions asked on their portal, and I've seen thorough answers given to the questions and the willingness to support the customer with follow-ups and everything else.
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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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JetBrains
Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.
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Alternatives Considered
Apify
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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JetBrains
I think WebStorm is way ahead of open-source editors. Please don't get me wrong, I love open-source. But the other free editors have a lot of configuration which blocks my whole coding experience. Take "Atom" for example. I used it for about 3 months, but in that time I had to update the plugins hundreds of time, and for every little thing (e.g. linter) I had to download a community plugin, and with each plugin atom would get a little slow. Take "Eclipse" for another example, which is very suited for Java, but not so suited for JavaScript. Sublime was good, but WebStorm comes with many exciting features that I did not find in sublime/notepad.
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Return on Investment
Apify
  • Some tools have saved us more than 20 hours of work per week.
  • In some cases, it has allowed us to earn more than $5,000 per client. The results speak for themselves.
  • Para algunas empresas, la compra de bases de datos puede resultar muy costosa, y gracias a Apify, hemos podido crearlas por menos de 300 dólares.
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JetBrains
  • Saves lot of time when we are finding the text or files.
  • Easy to work with for support projects.
  • Nice code completion feature.
  • It's all in one solution for both front end, back end and database solution to work with.
  • Initial learning curve is required to use the workbench.
  • Documentation can be improved better probably adding videos, would be helpful for visual person.
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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

WebStorm Screenshots

Screenshot of Code CompletionScreenshot of JavaScript DebuggingScreenshot of Quick DocumentationScreenshot of Version Control IntegrationScreenshot of the Out-of-the-box Experience