Apify review

Apify ranks first because it covers more of the scraping job than any other tool here. Apify Store lists more than 114,000 Actors, so a team that needs Google Maps listings, TikTok posts or ecommerce prices can often start from a scraper someone else maintains and pay per result or per run. When nothing fits, developers can build their own Actors from Python, JavaScript or TypeScript templates, or with Crawlee, Apify's open-source crawling library, then schedule and monitor them on the same platform. Proxies are built in: residential traffic costs $8 per GB on Starter, and an Unblocker and Google SERP proxy are billed per 1,000 requests. The Free plan gives $5 of usage every month, and Starter costs $19 a month, which becomes credit to spend, plus pay as you go. The trade-off is cost forecasting, since compute units, proxy traffic and each Actor's own fee all add up, and heavy parallel work needs the Scale or Business plan.

Who it is for

Data and growth teams that want ready-made scrapers for popular sites plus a place to run their own code at scale.

Price

Free plan with $5 of monthly usage; Starter $19 per month plus pay as you go; Scale $199 and Business $999 per month.

Starter $19 / month + pay as you go $19 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Apify Store with more than 114,000 ready-to-run Actors for sites such as Google Maps and TikTok
• Build, schedule and monitor your own Actors from Python, JavaScript or TypeScript templates
• Residential, datacenter and Google SERP proxies plus an Unblocker billed per 1,000 requests
• Crawlee, an open-source web scraping and crawling library
• MCP server, API, CLI and integrations to feed results into apps and AI agents

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Free plan includes $5 of usage each month with no credit card
• Strength: Ready-made Actors save build time for common targets
• Strength: Higher plans lower compute unit and proxy rates
• Weakness: Total cost depends on compute units, proxies and each Actor's own pricing
• Weakness: Starter allows 32 concurrent runs, so large parallel jobs need Scale or Business
• Weakness: Single sign-on is not listed on the self-serve plans

Key facts

• Free plan: Yes, $5 of usage per month
• Compute unit price: $0.2 on Starter, $0.13 on Business
• Residential proxies: $8 per GB on Starter
• Max concurrent runs: 32 on Starter, 256 on Business

Where it ranks

Apify is No. 1 in our Best Web Scraping Tools verdict.