Apify
Web scraping and automation platform where you run ready-made or custom "Actors" in the cloud and expose them to AI agents through an MCP server.
About Apify
AI agents and data pipelines need fresh data from websites that block bots or need a real browser, and building, hosting and unblocking scrapers yourself takes ongoing work.
Who it’s for
- Developers feeding web data to AI agents, RAG pipelines or apps
- Teams doing lead generation, price monitoring or market research
When to consider it
Consider Apify when you want to pick a scraper from a store of over 100,000 Actors or deploy your own in Python or JavaScript, with proxies, storage, scheduling and an MCP server so agents can find and run Actors.
Tradeoffs & limitations
- The free plan gives $5 of monthly usage, 16 GB of Actor RAM and 5 concurrent runs, and is blocked until the next monthly cycle once the credit is used. Paid plans are $19, $199 and $999 a month plus pay-as-you-go usage ($0.2 to $0.13 per compute unit).
- Each Store Actor sets its own pricing (pay per event or per usage) on top of platform usage; residential proxies cost $7 to $8 per GB, and SSO is not part of the Free, Starter, Scale or Business plans.
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Documentation-based assessment · Nov 1, 2026 · Prepared with AI assistance; not a hands-on benchmark.
Checked by SOTA · AI-assisted documentation review. Selection advice is our assessment; verify current requirements for your deployment.
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Web scraping and automation platform where you run ready-made or custom "Actors" in the cloud and expose them to AI agents through an MCP server.
Based on official pages and announcements checked on 2026-11-01. No hands-on test, performance benchmark or popularity ranking is claimed.