Apify
Marketplace and platform for production-grade web scraping actors.
Best for
Best for technical ops and engineering teams who need scrapers at scale with proxies and queueing.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $49/mo
- Setup time
- 1 hour to run first marketplace actor
- Learning curve
- medium
- Last verified
- 5/21/2026
What we love
- ✓Largest catalog of ready-made scrapers
- ✓Proper infrastructure for serious volume
- ✓Generous free tier for testing
Where it falls short
- −Pricing varies by actor — budget surprises possible
- −Quality of community actors varies
- −UI overwhelming on first visit
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20264 tiers
Free
per month
- ✓$5 platform credit
- ✓Shared proxies
- ✓Community support
Starter
per month
- ✓$49 platform credit
- ✓Datacenter proxies
- ✓Email support
Scale
per month
- ✓$500 platform credit
- ✓Residential proxies
- ✓Priority support
Business
annual contract
- ✓Custom credits
- ✓SLA
- ✓Dedicated success manager
Why we picked it
Apify is what you graduate to when Browse AI hits a wall. The actor marketplace alone has saved entire engineering quarters.
Overview
Apify is a developer-leaning platform for running web scrapers and automations called Actors. It ships a marketplace of pre-built scrapers for sites like LinkedIn, Google Maps, and Amazon, and a Crawlee SDK for writing your own in Node or Python.
Key features
- ●Marketplace of 4,000+ ready-made Actors
- ●Crawlee SDK in Node and Python
- ●Built-in proxy rotation with residential and datacenter pools
- ●Datasets, key-value stores, and request queues
- ●Webhooks, scheduling, and integrations
- ●Headless browser actors with Playwright
- ●Pay-per-event billing on most actors
Best use cases
Google Maps lead lists
Run the Maps scraper actor with a city and category, get a CSV.
E-commerce monitoring
Schedule Amazon and Shopify scrapers, diff inventory daily.
Custom crawler at scale
Build a Crawlee project, deploy as an actor with proxies and retries.
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