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
Longview Plan
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
Longview Plan is a unified data integration solution from insightsoftware, used to consolidate data from ERP, HR, and CRM systems and enhance data quality and traceability with validation algorithms.N/A
SSIS
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
Pricing
ApifyLongview PlanSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
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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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ApifyLongview PlanSSIS
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo 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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Community Pulse
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Features
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Data Source Connection
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Apify
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Ratings
Longview Plan
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Ratings
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
7.0
56 Ratings
17% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings00 Ratings5.043 Ratings
Data Transformations
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Longview Plan
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
6.8
56 Ratings
17% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings4.755 Ratings
Data Modeling
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
7.5
54 Ratings
4% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings00 Ratings6.035 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings00 Ratings7.045 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings00 Ratings6.351 Ratings
Data Governance
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Apify
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Longview Plan
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Ratings
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
5.3
43 Ratings
40% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.038 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings00 Ratings4.538 Ratings
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User Ratings
ApifyLongview PlanSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(72 ratings)
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8.0
(54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
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9.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(63 ratings)
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8.0
(9 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
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8.8
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
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8.0
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
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User Testimonials
ApifyLongview PlanSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
  • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
  • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
  • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
  • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
  • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
  • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
  • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
  • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
  • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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Usability
Apify
I am a coder so I am more technical prone than the average user but I prefer the JSON led approach to making calls and requests -- plus, I like the wide array of available endpoints for running actors or returning dataset items
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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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Performance
Apify
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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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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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Insightsoftware, Inc
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Microsoft
  • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
  • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
  • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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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