// scorecard · 74/100
verified 1mo agoAgent-readiness26/35
Agent registration (auth.md)9/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt3/3
Reliability & performance12/15
Actively maintained8/8
Production-ready4/4
Updated recently—
Pricing10/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial4/4
Free-tier generosity0/3
Docs & DX8/12
Docs quality6/8
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples—
Security & compliance8/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270010/2
GDPR0/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness10/10
Open source6/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity0/3
Company size—
Years operating—
// rankings · cost per standard workload
#19 in Scrapingnot comparable
No per-page rate — compute-unit pricing (1 CU = 1 GB-RAM-hour, $0.13-0.20) + proxy/storage/transfer; cost per page depends on the actor RAM and runtime, not derivable without assumptions.
// overview
Apify is a cloud platform and marketplace for web scraping, browser automation, and AI-agent data tools.
Best for: Growth, sales, marketing, RevOps, data, and AI teams that need scalable web data collection without building and maintaining scraping infrastructure from scratch.
// pricing
Free tier · generosity 0/5
Includes: $5 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors · $0.2 per compute unit · Community support
Limits: No Apify Store discount
Free$0
- $5 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors
- $0.2 per compute unit
- Community support
Starter$29 / month
- $29 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors
- $0.2 per compute unit
- Chat support
- Bronze Apify Store discount
Scale$199 / month
- $199 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors
- $0.16 per compute unit
- Priority chat support
- Silver Apify Store discount
Business$999 / month
- $999 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors
- $0.13 per compute unit
- Account manager
- Gold Apify Store discount
CustomCustom
- Scalable pricing
- SLAs with guaranteed data
- Dedicated team of experts
// security & compliance
✓ SOC 2✗ ISO 27001✗ GDPR✗ HIPAA
// features
- 45,000+ prebuilt Actors in Apify Store
- Build custom Actors in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
- REST API plus official JavaScript and Python clients/SDKs
- Scheduled Actor runs and task automation
- Datasets, key-value stores, and request queues for output/storage
- Residential, datacenter, and SERP proxies with anti-blocking support
- Webhooks for run status and event-driven workflows
- Browser automation support with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Scrapy, and Crawlee
- MCP support for AI agents to discover and use Apify tools
- Actor monetization and publishing marketplace
pros
- Very large marketplace reduces need to build scrapers from scratch
- Flexible for both no-code users and developers
- Built-in scaling, proxies, storage, scheduling, and API access
- Useful for GTM use cases such as lead generation, monitoring, enrichment, and market research
cons
- Usage-based pricing can be hard to predict before testing an Actor
- Scraping reliability depends on target websites and Actor maintenance
- Some useful Actors have separate pricing or may consume significant proxy/compute usage
- Teams still need to manage legal, compliance, and data-quality risks around web scraping