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AI Tool Comparison
Activepieces vs Apify
A side-by-side breakdown to help you pick the right tool for your workflow.
Review Score assesses product quality; Fit Score is specific to a use case. Limited reviews do not establish overall product quality. How reviews work.
Activepieces
Build an unlimited number of AI workflows and MCP-connected automations metered by daily and monthly credits rather than per-task fees, self-hostable under an MIT license for full data control and unmetered runs.
Automation
freemium
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.
Automation
freemium
Bottom Line
Catalog updated: August 2026
Activepieces and Apify both compete in Automation, overlapping most directly on automation.
Choose Activepieces if…
Best for teams that want Zapier-style automation but need to keep sensitive data on their own infrastructure, and its edge is fully self-hostable and open-source, so workflow data never has to touch an external server. A genuine privacy-first alternative to Zapier, the app integration library is still noticeably smaller. Lean toward Apify instead if a marketplace of 1,000+ pre-built scrapers covering common targets like Amazon listings and LinkedIn data matters more for your use case.
Choose Apify if…
Best for teams that need to extract data from websites at scale without building and maintaining scrapers in-house, and its edge is a marketplace of 1,000+ pre-built scrapers covering common targets like Amazon listings and LinkedIn data. The most complete scraping infrastructure available, costs add up fast at high usage volume. Lean toward Activepieces instead if fully self-hostable and open-source, so workflow data never has to touch an external server matters more for your use case.
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| Attribute | Activepieces | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Automation | Automation |
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Pricing Detail | Free (100 credits/day, unlimited flows; self-host free) / $16/mo Plus (10K credits/mo, billed annually) / $166/mo Team (50K credits/mo, billed annually) / overage $0.007/credit | Free $0 ($5 monthly usage) / Starter $19/month (includes $19 prepaid usage) / Excess usage and Actor-specific charges apply |
| TWF Review Score | Not yet reviewed | Not yet reviewed |
Key Features
Activepieces
- Visual flow builder
- AI pieces (OpenAI, Claude)
- Self-hosting
- 100+ apps
- Branching and loops
Apify
- 2,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors)
- AI web scraping from natural language
- Proxy management
- Scheduled runs
- API and webhooks
Pros
Activepieces
- •Clean modern interface
- •Open source with active development
- •Good AI integration pieces
- •Better pricing than Zapier
Apify
- •Largest library of pre-built scrapers anywhere
- •AI can scrape any site without code
- •Reliable proxy rotation
- •Excellent for large-scale data collection
Cons
Activepieces
- Smaller app library than Zapier
- Community support only for self-hosted
- Enterprise pricing is steep
Apify
- Can get expensive for high usage
- Some sites actively block scraping
- Setup complexity for custom scrapers