Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and web automation: run scrapers, bots and automated workflows on scalable cloud infrastructure, with a marketplace of over 2,000 ready-to-use Actors.

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apify.com
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freemium · Free ($5 of monthly credits included); Starter from $49/month
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Overview

Apify is the cloud platform that solves the most common professional web scraping problems: scalable infrastructure, proxy management, IP rotation, execution queues and a marketplace of ready-made scrapers for the most common sites.

How does Apify work?

Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and web automation, built around the concept of Actors: small scripts (written in Node.js or Python) that perform a specific task — extracting data from a site, automating interactions, monitoring changes. Actors run on Apify's cloud infrastructure, which manages scaling, queues, proxies, headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright) and result storage. The public marketplace includes over 2,000 ready-to-use Actors for the most common sites — Amazon, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Maps, Booking and many others — which anyone can use without writing code. Those wanting custom scrapers can write them using Apify SDKs in JavaScript or Python. Results are saved in datasets or key-value stores and exportable in JSON, CSV and other formats. RESTful APIs allow triggering and managing Actors from any external system. Apify is used by data scientists, researchers, marketing agencies and developers to collect data at scale.

Who is it for?

For developers, data scientists, researchers and marketing teams who need to extract web data at scale, with managed cloud infrastructure and a ready-to-use scraper marketplace.

How much does it cost?

Apify has a free plan with $5 of monthly credits included, sufficient for occasional use and testing. The Starter plan starts at $49 per month with $49 of credits and increases available resources. Scale and Business plans have more credits and enterprise features. Credits are consumed based on execution time, memory used and number of results. Public marketplace Actors have their own separate pricing (many are free, others are pay-per-use).

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