Item: Apify
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Apify

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use Apify for some API need to integrated

Pros and Cons

Pros

Serverless “Actors” / containerized tasks + scaling orchestration
Prebuilt “Actors / scrapers” in the Apify Store as starting points
Robust support for crawling, scraping, handling anti-scraping, login flows, dynamic pages

Cons

Cost & pricing transparency / scalability of cost

Return on Investment

Time Savings and Faster Data Delivery
Reduced Infrastructure & DevOps Overhead

Low setup friction

You can run your first scraper within minutes using the Actor Store or code templates.Built-in scheduling, proxy rotation, and monitoring remove much of the operational pain that normally plagues web scraping.

Key Insights

Do you think Apify delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Apify's feature set?

Yes

Did Apify live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Apify go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Apify again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

An e-commerce intelligence firm monitors 50+ competitor websites daily for price, stock, and delivery times. Each site is scraped by a separate Actor, scheduled nightly, and results are exported to S3 or Google Sheets. The team maintains only extraction logic; Apify handles concurrency, failures, and infrastructure.

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