Overview
Apify is a cloud platform on which scraping and automation programs, called Actors, are built, run and scheduled. Its public store lists ready-made Actors for common sites alongside custom code, and the company also publishes Crawlee, an open-source web scraping and crawling library.[2] Apify was launched in 2015 by Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada out of the Y Combinator Fellowship, and later moved its team to the Czech Republic; the company states 80,000 customers worldwide and more than 118,000 Actors in its store.[2] Pricing is a monthly subscription that includes a dollar amount of platform usage: a Free plan with US$5 of usage, Starter at US$19, Scale at US$199 and Business at US$999 per month, with annual billing reducing each price by 10%.[1]
Apify strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Free plan without a credit card
- Large catalogue of prebuilt Actors for common sites
- Open-source Crawlee library usable outside the platform
Limitations
- Usage-based consumption makes monthly cost harder to predict than per-request pricing
- Unused included usage expires at the end of each billing cycle
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Apify alternatives and competitors
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Bright Data
Zyte
Oxylabs
Decodo
ScrapingBee
ScraperAPI
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Browse AI
Diffbot
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