What Apify does

Apify is a cloud platform for building, running and renting "Actors", serverless cloud programs for web scraping, browser automation and data extraction, with a marketplace of pre-built scrapers. It targets developers and data teams needing structured web data at scale.

What you get: Actor marketplace (thousands of pre-built scrapers), Serverless compute-unit billing, Headless browser automation at scale, Scheduler & webhooks, Dataset/storage API.

Typical jobs: Large-scale web scraping for lead generation or price monitoring; Feeding scraped/structured web data into AI agent pipelines; Scheduled data extraction jobs for market research.

What users complain about: "the monthly credit limit catches us on large batches, so plan your quota" (https://www.trustpilot.com/review/apify.com)

Pricing and plan limits

Verified August 2026

Plan	Monthly	Annual (per mo)	Limits
Free	Free	Free	$5/month platform usage credit, 16GB max RAM, 25 max concurrent runs, community support
Starter	$29	$26	$29/mo platform usage credit, 64GB max RAM, 32 concurrent runs
Scale	$199	$179	$199/mo platform usage credit, 256GB max RAM, 128 concurrent runs
Business	$999	$899	$999/mo platform usage credit, 512GB max RAM, 256 concurrent runs
Enterprise	not disclosed	n/a	Custom

Where it wins

Marketplace of thousands of pre-built Actors means many scraping jobs need zero custom code
Highest third-party satisfaction of the tools reviewed here (4.8/5 on Trustpilot with few substantive complaints)
Compute unit price drops with volume (from $0.20/CU down to $0.13/CU on Business), rewarding scale users

Where it falls short

Monthly credits do not roll over and expire at the end of each billing cycle, penalizing bursty usage
"Costs scale up fast when you're doing serious volume", per-CU billing can surprise teams doing large batch runs
Lead-gen users report the monthly credit limit "catches us on large batches," requiring active quota planning

How we scored it

Full methodology

Criterion	Weight	Score	Contribution
Capability	30%	8.0	2.40
Value for money	25%	6.0	1.50
Ease of use	15%	6.0	0.90
Maturity	15%	8.0	1.20
Support & docs	10%	8.0	0.80
Momentum	5%	7.0	0.35
Weighted total	100%	7.2	7.20

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