How Apify Replaced 300 per Month in Data Costs and 10 Hours of Weekly Manual Work.
March 10, 2026
How Apify Replaced 300 per Month in Data Costs and 10 Hours of Weekly Manual Work.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Apify
We use Apify primarily for web scraping and data extraction tasks that feed into our n8n-based automation workflows. Our use case spans a few areas: extracting property listings for clients, enriching lead data for CRM pipelines, and scraping job boards and business directories for outreach campaigns. Apify handles the heavy lifting of bypassing anti-scraping measures and managing large-scale crawls, which would otherwise take significant engineering effort to maintain ourselves.
Pros
- Handling sites that hate scrapers.
- Scaling without managing infrastructure.
- Scheduling and webhooks.
Cons
- Credit based pricing is hard to predict.
- Debugging failed runs.
- Scheduling lacks flexibility
- Time-to-delivery dropped by ~70% on data projects.
- Recovered roughly 8–10 hours per week in manual effort.
- Enabled a new product category.
- Bright Data
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?
No
Did implementation of Apify go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Apify again?
Yes
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