Apify vs. Skyvia

Apify is a good fit when a website is secured and you need resident proxies plus a real browser, but setting up all that software into a working configuration is difficult or you don’t want to spend time on it. Pre-built actors are suitable for regular, scheduled monitoring and comparing data changes between runs; you can also use external webhooks. It’s suitable for selling a parser as a product because payment and the product listing are handled through the store. The platform doesn’t provide detailed statistics on how end users are using my actors: you can see the statuses of runs, but there are no detailed logs. For static pages that can be handled by a short script run on a schedule, using actors may be overkill.

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Skyvia is easy to use and set up automated backups. It was one of several tools that we vetted for this purpose – and had the most favorable pricing and integrations to suit our needs. We wanted to have multiple CRM instances backed up daily and allow non-technical team members to manage this, as well as restore them in times of need. Skyvia has allowed us to do this with ease.

Incentivized

• 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.

• Skyvia is good at scheduled bidirectional data integration to/from multiple sources
• The mapping is done automatically which saves a lot of time
• I like that all connectors are included in the price, so I don't have to pay for using some new ones additionally

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• If there's something they can improve could be cheaper prices for LaTam
• They can market their services in a larger scale, globally.
• They can market their services in a larger scale, globally.

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.

Reliable, very simple to use, and a range of subscription tiers to suit different needs.

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Incentivized

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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Loved using Skyvia for our projects, it saved time, allowed us to reach the desired outcome quickly and was easy to maintain. When we first used it we weren't sure we would be able achieve the outcome desired but during the trial it was quickly obvious we would be able to achieve what we needed for data connection and reporting.

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.

I think guys have a really good support team, and even from different time zones we managed to get worthy support.

1. Strategy for Anti-Blocking & Proxies 2. Cost Optimization (Compute Units) 3. Data Management & Storage

Incentivized

Simple to setup and maintain

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Apify has a cleaner interface, better documentation, and a lower learning curve for building and scheduling scraping workflows than Bright Data. The Apify Store has thousands of prebuilt Actors that can often be used immediately or customized with minimal effort. I also didn't need the extremely strong anti-bot measures from Bright Data at the time given the purpose.

Compared to similar user-friendly data integration systems like Integrate.io, Stitch, or Azure, Skyvia still wins in the number of connectors and pricing policy. Skyvia is a tool for companies like ours, starving for simple but, at the same time, robust and cost-effective data transfer solutions. It doesn't require additional knowledge for implementation and usage because it's no code. We'd recommend Skyvia as the best solution for non-technical staff.

Incentivized

• 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.

• The core of our business lies in analyzing data from various sources, and while ETL itself is not our primary focus, it is a necessary process to achieve our goals. Thanks to Skyvia, we are able to streamline the ETL process at a reasonable price, allowing us to dedicate our efforts to data analysis without the burden of ETL complexities.

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