Apify vs. SerpApi

SerpApi

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apify	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Apify is presented as a full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, AI agents, and automation, offering an ecosystem where developers can build, deploy, and publish web scrapers, AI agents, and automation tools calledActors. Apify Store: Over 4,000 pre-built scrapers and AI agents for web scraping and automation projects. Scrape social media, Google Maps, Google Search, and YouTube. Develop with open-source tools: Crawlee is an open-source library for…	$39 per month
SerpApi	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	SerpApi is a real-time API to scrape and extract search results without managing proxies, solving CAPTCHAs, and parsing HTML. Supported search engines: Google Google Scholar Google Jobs Google Reverse Image Google Maps Google Product Google Events Bing Baidu Yahoo! Yandex Ebay	$50 5,000 searches per month; Up to 1,000 successful searches per hour is the guaranteed throughput for this plan.

Pricing

Apify

SerpApi

Editions & Modules

Starter Plan: $39
per month
Scale Plan: $199
per month
Business Plan: $999
per month
Apify for Enterprise: Custom
Fully-customized web scraping and automation solution for any scale.

Developer Plan: $50.00
5,000 searches per month; Up to 1,000 successful searches per hour is the guaranteed throughput for this plan.
Production Plan: $130.00
15,000 per month
Big Data Plan: $250.00
30,000 searches per month
Searcher Plan: $500.00
100,000 searches per month
Volume Plan: $1000.00
250,000 searches per month
Infrastructure Plan: $2500.00
1,000,000 searches per month; Up to 200,000 successful searches per hour is the guaranteed throughput for this plan.

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Apify	SerpApi
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

The lowest-priced plan that has all the features needed and is recommended as a starting point. If users exceed the platform usage credits for a plan, a notification is sent, and the excess usage will be added to the next invoice or the user can upgrade to a higher plan.

Custom plans with more searches or special features are available.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Apify	SerpApi
Considered Both Products	Apify Vansh Arora Co-Founder Chose Apify They are expensive and I have to use multiple platform but in Apify its cheaper and I can do it using one platform Incentivized Helpful? FS Firdavs Shodmanov Founder Chose Apify Because I am a part of big Ai automation community and almsot everyone there recommended i use Apify because of its user friendly interface and integration with other platforms that automaters use such as make.com and n8n Incentivized Helpful? BH Brent Herrig Owner Chose Apify Easy to use and pricing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify I didn't try anything else for the moment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify I prefer Apify because is more easy to use for non-technical people Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify RapidAPI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify The reason we prefer Apify to other alternatives is that it has more functionality and APIs that serve different purposes. In addition, thanks to its libraries prepared for easy integration into many programming languages, it becomes very easy to integrate into every project in … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Panagiotopoulos Co-Founder Chose Apify I've tried many web scrapers but apify provides the lowest barrier to entry to even seeing if there's proof of concept of an idea. many scrapers make promises based on things that don't work or maybe worked once upon a time, but don't work anymore. Apify lets you see what is … Incentivized Helpful? SY Shawn Yang Director of Operation Chose Apify Friendly trial tier. Lower pricing tier is sufficient for small users/ clients for start. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify Apify saves a lot of money compared to buying a subscription to another lead scraping software. It also integrates with automation software, so few data cleaning and lead enrichment steps are required. This saves a lot of time, as run times can be costly after a lot of use. Incentivized Helpful? LP Lucas Perondi Head of Growth Chose Apify Apify stands out because it offers greater flexibility, transparency, and control. Unlike RapidAPI, which mainly connects to third-party APIs, Apify lets me build custom web scrapers and automation tools tailored to my needs. It’s like having a Swiss Army knife for data … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify APIFY is easy to use in automation created on make or zapier. It also has API features so you can connect it directly to any service you want. I mostly use Make for most of my scrapping project or lead generation project and it goes pretty smooth from start to end. Incentivized Helpful? Marie M. Bennett System Administrator Chose Apify Apify is, in my experience, the most successful choice when it comes to web scraping for academic reasons, despite the fact that the goals and purposes of all three applications are very different from one another. In spite of the fact that I have only been web scraping for a … Incentivized Helpful? DB Dhrumil Bhankhar Senior Technical Specialist Chose Apify Apify has been my first choice always. Incentivized Helpful? Fran Hodgens Undergraduate Research Fellow Chose Apify Although the purposes and aims of all three products vary widely, I have found Apify to be the most effective option for web scraping for academic purposes. As someone with only a few months' worths of experience with web scraping, I have found Apify's detailed blog posts and … Incentivized Helpful? MD Miroslav Dzurenko Project Manager Chose Apify It's about people we know and previous references we've got. We've started with a smaller project and we're very satisfied with how the overall process was. From the first contact till the successful delivery. Thus, we decide to continue our collaboration with Apify on further … Incentivized Helpful? Lea Petrášová Chief Executive Officer Chose Apify We tended to use our custom solutions before, but we were never able to reach such scalability as we have with Apify. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify way simpler both in usage and compliance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify Apify stood out mainly for its ease of use. The interface is much more intuitive, and the learning curve is far shorter, especially for those who are not highly technical. Another major advantage is the availability of community-built pre-built actors. While other platforms … Incentivized Helpful? SM Simon Moosbrugger IT Chose Apify Mich cheaper Incentivized Helpful? HL Hamed Latif Founder Chose Apify I use both Incentivized Helpful? SS Sam Sutton Operations Specialist Chose Apify More flexibility, more options, better features, better version control, more customization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify Function is almost same but it is more expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apify so these other services are great for automation, but they're more like processors. Apify is more about getting you the data that you'd feed INTO these processes, so they're more complementary than competing. I don't think there's anything quite like Apify, especially not at … Incentivized Helpful? WC William Cooper Owner Chose Apify Apify is better for hyperspecific tasks. There’s really no platform like it Incentivized Helpful?	SerpApi No answer on this topic

User Ratings
	Apify	SerpApi
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apify	SerpApi
Likelihood to Recommend	Apify is great for web scraping, web crawling, and data extraction. I'm sure it's great for other things I don't use it for, but that's what I can confirm. I use it for pulling weekly analytics of 50+ TikTok UGC creators that I hire for brands. If you want a nice UX platform to share with clients, you would need to vibe code it and feed it the Apify data or use a more costly program. NM Nicole Martinez Head of Short Form Video Services Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	easy-to-use Actor for crawling arbitrary web pages and extracting structured data from them using a few lines of JavaScript code Apify is helping us extract data from many company websites and even mobile apps without having to deal with proxies Apify has built a solid reputation in the scraping community – neutral, diverse, and dependable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	sometimes the devs are working on one of the scrapers when it breaks and you don't really get a notice for that, it just doesn't work. Esp starts to be a problem when it's supposed to be running in the background. Loading cookies into the different actors is kind of a pain. vague pricing models. all the actors are priced differently, and the difference between "usage" "result" and "event" is pretty confusing Incentivized Aiden Hartman Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	It's the best because you can just load in a limited amount of money and limit your financial exposure to using a tool like this. so renewing isn't a big consideration... i know that i'm going to need the tool in the future and i'll load it with money accordingly when im ready. Alex Panagiotopoulos Co-Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	The site is laid out pretty well. There is a learning curve, but it is not steep. Integrations are fairly straightforward using the API and JSON files. Integrates well with Make automations, which is essential for our team and organization. I am pleased with the performance and flexibility of the platform. Incentivized RE Ray Eason Freelancer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I was very happy with the support I received from Apify. They are always ready to answer all your questions and help solve problems you have. Katarína M. Junior Content Marketing Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The reason we prefer Apify to other alternatives is that it has more functionality and APIs that serve different purposes. In addition, thanks to its libraries prepared for easy integration into many programming languages, it becomes very easy to integrate into every project in different languages. In this way, it deserves to be ahead of its competitors. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	results-based pricing is huge - across the whole platform I can try different actors and not have to change payment plans all the time the time saving here is unimaginable - imagine trying to build a scraper for every site that you needed and maintain all of them: disgusting. Instead, we get to use Apify. $39/mo to scrape any data off the internet = crazy ROI Incentivized Aiden Hartman Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
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