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Apify

Apify

62/100

Marketplace of 'Actors' + a platform to run any scraper.

apify.com

Agent-readiness

auth.md
MCP server
llms.txt
OpenAPI
Auth: api_key

Rankings

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
$0/mo
Starter
$29/mo + usage
Scale
$199/mo + usage
Business
$999/mo + usage
Enterprise
Custom

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

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