Apify
Pull structured data from any website using 30,000+ ready-made scrapers and managed proxies, without running your own servers. Now has an MCP server so agents can invoke Actors directly.
The verdict on Apify: Teams that need to extract data from websites at scale without building and maintaining scrapers in-house Apify is infrastructure for web data, not a scraper you point at a single site. Pricing: Free $0 ($5 monthly usage) / Starter $19/month (includes $19 prepaid usage) / Excess usage and Actor-specific charges apply.
Best For
Teams that need to extract data from websites at scale without building and maintaining scrapers in-house
Standout Feature
A marketplace of 1,000+ pre-built scrapers covering common targets like Amazon listings and LinkedIn data
TL;DR
The most complete scraping infrastructure available, costs add up fast at high usage volume.
Alternatives
Fit Score: use-case reference
How this is scoredApify scored 1 to 5 on five dimensions for the named use cases below. Part of our catalog-wide use-case reference, not a product-quality review rating.
Extracting structured data from websites at scale without building scrapers in-house
4.0/5- Capability
- 5/5
- Reliability
- 4/5
- Value
- 3/5
- Ease
- 4/5
- Compatibility
- 4/5
Apify's bestFor and standout both describe exactly this use case, a marketplace of pre-built scrapers plus managed proxies for scale, confirmed by pros' 'excellent for large-scale data collection.' Value is capped because cons flags it 'can get expensive for high usage.'
A one-off, small-scale scrape of a single simple page
2.8/5- Capability
- 3/5
- Reliability
- 3/5
- Value
- 2/5
- Ease
- 3/5
- Compatibility
- 3/5
OurTake frames Apify as 'infrastructure for web data, not a scraper you point at a single site,' so a small one-off scrape doesn't unlock the marketplace and proxy-management value that justifies the tool's cost and setup complexity.
Editorial judgment grounded in this tool's own published pricing, features, and our existing pros and cons, not a certification or a measured benchmark. Product quality is assessed separately under our review methodology.
Overview
Not yet reviewedProduct quality is assessed from original evidence. How reviews work.
Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that provides the infrastructure, tools, and marketplace for extracting data from websites at scale, without the operational complexity of building and maintaining scrapers in-house. The Apify Store contains 1,000+ pre-built scrapers (called Actors) for common data extraction needs: Amazon product listings, LinkedIn company data, Google Maps reviews, Booking.com rates, social media profiles, and hundreds more. For custom extraction needs, Apify provides SDKs in JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript for building new Actors, plus cloud infrastructure for running them on a schedule or via API trigger. Apify's browser automation handles JavaScript-heavy sites that traditional HTTP scraping can't access, running real Chrome instances in the cloud.
The Proxy service provides rotating residential and datacenter IP pools to avoid blocking. Extracted data can be saved to Apify's Dataset storage and exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, or pushed directly to Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, or S3. The current pricing page lists Starter at $19/month, including $19 of monthly prepaid usage, or $17/month equivalent billed annually. Free costs $0 with $5 of recurring monthly prepaid usage.
Platform resources and applicable Actor charges draw from the prepaid balance first; excess usage is billed separately, and Actor-specific fees can add to the workload cost. The first $19 of included usage is not charged again on top of Starter. Older help examples still mention Starter at $29/month or $49/month; the current $19/month pricing-page rate is used here. Apify is most valuable for data teams, market intelligence operations, and growth marketers who need structured data from the web at a volume or frequency that makes manual collection impractical, and where building and maintaining custom scrapers in-house would require dedicated engineering time.
The source of the legacy catalog rating and review count has not been substantiated. Neither is presented here as a verified review rating or included in review structured data.
Workflow Fit Scores are separate, use-case-specific editorial judgments, not user-review averages. Read the Fit Score methodology.
- • Largest library of pre-built scrapers anywhere
- • AI can scrape any site without code
- • Reliable proxy rotation
- • Excellent for large-scale data collection
- • Can get expensive for high usage
- • Some sites actively block scraping
- • Setup complexity for custom scrapers
Key Features
- 2,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors)
- AI web scraping from natural language
- Proxy management
- Scheduled runs
- API and webhooks
Trust & Data
Verified 2026-09
- Training on your data
- Not publishedThe privacy policy contains a section titled 'Artificial intelligence and automated processing,' but no explicit training statement could be confirmed from readable text.
- Compliance
- GDPR
- Retention
- Not published
- Export
- Partial export
Source: apify.com
As published by the vendor. Verify independently before purchase decisions.
Our Take
The value is the marketplace of over 1,000 pre-built scrapers combined with managed proxies that handle the operational complexity of scraping at scale. Developers and data teams who would otherwise spend weeks building and maintaining their own scrapers get a significant shortcut. The Free plan's $5 monthly usage allowance goes quickly at real volume. Starter is $19/month with $19 in prepaid usage, not a flat unlimited scraping price: budget for the chosen Actor's charges and resources beyond the included balance. If structured web data is central to your product or research pipeline, this is the most complete option available.
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