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Overview

What is Apify?

Apify is presented as a full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, AI agents, and automation, offering an ecosystem where developers can build, deploy, and publish web scrapers, AI agents, and automation tools calledActors.Apify Store: Over 4,000 pre-built scrapers and…

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Pricing

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Starter Plan

$39

Cloud
per month

Scale Plan

$199

Cloud
per month

Business Plan

$999

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://apify.com/pricing?utm_source=de…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $39 per month
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Product Demos

How to Scrape YouTube Videos, Channels, and Comments

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How to Scrape Airbnb Data, Listings, Prices and Reviews

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Product Details

What is Apify?

Apify is presented as a full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, AI agents, and automation, offering an ecosystem where developers can build, deploy, and publish web scrapers, AI agents, and automation tools calledActors.


  • Apify Store: Over 4,000 pre-built scrapers and AI agents for web scraping and automation projects. Scrape social media, Google Maps, Google Search, and YouTube.
  • Develop with open-source tools: Crawlee is an open-source library for building scrapers in Node.js and Python.
  • Multiple libraries to choose from: Apify works great with both Python and JavaScript. Use Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright or Puppeteer.
  • Actors plug into any workflow: Connect to hundreds of apps (like Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay) using ready-made integrations, or set them up with webhooks and our API.
  • Code can be turned into an Apify Actor: Actors are serverless micro apps that are easy to develop, run, share, and integrate. The infrastructure, proxies, and storages are ready to go. Published Actors can be monetized on Apify Store.
  • Deploy to the cloud: No configuration required. Use a single CLI command or build directly from GitHub.
  • Runing Actors: Start from Apify Console, CLI, via API, or schedule an Actor to start at any time.
  • Never get blocked: A large pool of datacenter and residential proxies, with smart IP address rotation with human-like browser fingerprints.
  • Store and share crawling results: Use distributed queues of URLs to crawl. Store structured data or binary files. Export datasets in Excel, CSV, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML table.
  • Monitor performance over time: Inspect all Actor runs, their logs, and runtime costs. Listen to events and get custom automated alerts.
  • Publish your Actors: Join hundreds of developers who share their Actors on Apify Store and earn money.
  • Web data to feed LLMs and AI agents: Extract text content from the web to feed AI agents, vector databases, fine-tune or train large language models (LLMs).

Apify Screenshots

Screenshot of the Apify Store, a growing automation marketplace.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 the web scraping templates. Or, users can import existing code from a Git repo and publish a project in the Apify Store and earn passive income.

Apify Videos

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Apify Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUSA, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Global
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Apify starts at $39.

Zyte, Import.io, and ScrapeStorm are common alternatives for Apify.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Apify are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 8)

It is easy to extract data from the web with this tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 07, 2022
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
3 years of experience
Apify is our go-to tool to collect information from a wide variety of sources. Apify, in contrast to other programs, is not constrained by a point-and-click interface; as a result, we are able to scrape any page, regardless of how complicated it may be. Due to Apify's high degree of adaptability, we are able to analyze and convert data even while it is being extracted.
  • To obtain well-structured information from the internet.
  • Providing access to data in a variety of forms via an API.
  • Proxy rotation is already built in.
Cons
  • Managing a big number of people and tasks.
  • Larger scale monitoring system.
  • Allow users to search and replace datasets by enhancing APIs.
It is common practice for developers to search for REST endpoints on other websites in order to retrieve data from other websites in a structured format such as JSON. However, not all websites have built distinct REST APIs; in this situation, Apify is quite beneficial. The majority of the time, the data that an organization collects is what is considered to be of the utmost importance. In comparison to the other systems that are currently accessible, Apify makes it simple to supply clean data.

Apify is simply amazing with scraping

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 02, 2021
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
5 years of experience
Many of my clients use Apify to extract data from various sources. We provide the software that is Apify platform-based and it helps them to create intelligence out of that data really quickly.

Most of the time, it's data that is most important for organizations. Apify makes it easy to deliver clean data compared to other available platforms.
  • Extracting well structured data from web
  • Exposing data as an API and in multiple formats
  • Built in proxy support with rotation
  • Very rich and open source SDK
  • Whole platform available as an API to be connected with your own software
  • Handling small scale to very large scale easily and quickly
  • Scheduling over the cloud is very easy
Cons
  • Organizing tasks/actors at large scale
  • Better monitoring system for larger scale
  • Enhance dataset APIs to provide search and replacements
- Very good at extracting data from web
- When regular/scheduled extraction is required, Apify is good and quick
- Very cost effective and comes with built-in proxies so that rotating proxies is easy and available
- When you want to run any NodeJS script on regular basis, Apify is good
- You can do headless browser puppeteer in no time on Apify.

Best Scrapping Service

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 09, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
3 years of experience
I use APIFY in automations for our business as well as for my clients projects. We use Apify for different use cases like finding businesses on web or from google maps or LinkedIn, scrapping websites and pages, scrapping profiles from different social media profiles, downloading media files and much more based on the actor chosen and used.
  • Google Maps Business Profile Search/scrapping
  • Instgram Profile Search
  • Youtube Channel Search
Cons
  • More in depth example for native integrations
  • Plan based on usage
Based on my usage of Apify which is mostly in lead generation, it serves my purpose of finding leads. I mostly use google maps business profile scrapper and it give me all possible info i need. on top of that i use few more scrappers to enrich the data and all of this in automation so time saving thing, that makes my work easier

Great agents

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 08, 2025
ML
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
2 years of experience
Apify has everything you need to retrieve information from a the internet. The agents are well priced and there is a vast selection to choose from. The APIs they have make it easy to integrate with your database and importantly stay compliant. I recommend this, good support team as well in my opinion.
  • scrape
  • APIs
  • infrastructure
Cons
  • diversity of agents
it is completely suited if you are looking to retrieve data from the internet (of course, always in a data compliant manner and safely). But it is amazing as they have the right infrastructure. I wish it could just have more agents built in or even be faster with some agents available now

Great value for a powerful tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 09, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
1 year of experience
We use Apify to create autonomous scraping agents for our AI agentic platform. We use a variety of agents but mainly the generic web scraper to build knowledge bases on demand.
  • Web scraping
  • Automatic retries
  • Specialized agents for social media
Cons
  • Unified billing
Apify is very well suited for getting web scrapers up and running super quickly. It also excels at providing a wide variety of specialized scrapers for specific websites.
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