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What is Apify?

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.

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Screenshot of the Apify Store, a growing automation marketplace.
Screenshot of Actors, which feature an auto-generated UI for setting their input.
Screenshot of the Actors' scheduling and integration interface, where users can connect them with platforms such as Zapier, the Google Suite, GitHub or feed LLMs through LangChain and LlamaIndex.
Screenshot of the web scraping templates. Or, users can import existing code from a Git repo and publish a project in the Apify Store and earn passive income.

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Screenshot of the Apify Store, a growing automation marketplace.

Who Buys & Uses Apify

Apify Reviews

What users are saying about Apify.
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Pros

  • Efficient web scraping from platforms like Instagram, Google Maps, and LinkedIn (7 of 15 reviewers)
  • Automation capabilities for tasks like content creation and competitor analysis
  • Workflow integration with platforms like Make.com and n8n

Cons

  • Concerns regarding pricing and billing transparency (4 of 15 reviewers)
  • User interface and usability issues (3 of 15 reviewers)
  • Perception of high costs

really happy with Aptify

Clinton WhiteView profile
owner in Sales at leadrevive (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I’ve used Apify extensively to power parts of my lead generation engine, and it’s become a core tool in my tech stack.What makes Apify stand out is how easy it is to go from idea to production. Whether you’re scraping websites, automating data collection, or building scalable agents, Apify makes the process incredibly smooth. The actor system is flexible, reliable, and well-documented — perfect for both technical users and no-code workflows.

Pros

  • web scraping
  • Wide range of ready-made actors
  • API-first design

Cons

  • pricing

Return on Investment

  • positive

Usability

Other Software Used

Render

I wish I knew about Apify earlier

Nicole Martinez
Head of Short Form Video Services in Marketing at Hype (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it every week to pull TikTok creator + profile analytics since I hire lots of creators for my 9-5. I need it to give weekly analytics reports to our clients. Since I hire a mix of UGC creators starting new brand pages and influencer who just post 1 video, I needed to extract data from both complete profiles (by their usernames) and individual links. Apify's TikTok Data Scraper does this.

Pros

  • Web scraping
  • Data extraction
  • Web crawling

Cons

  • Automatically Recurring Runs
  • Would be great if the data can be visually more appealing

Return on Investment

  • It's been positive because I can show our TikTok creator analytics (500k+ views per client) easily

Usability

Creating with Apify has increased productivity.

Incentivized
Ray Eason
Freelancer in Marketing at Ray Eason Consulting (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apify to create Make automations for scraping Upwork job leads, proposals, and connections. I also plan to do the same on Indeed. The platform is simple to use but has many options. There are many automations to choose from on the platform, which makes it nice to use.

Pros

  • Creating Actors
  • Integrating with Make
  • Proxy Configurations

Cons

  • Starter Pricing could be a lower for those learning and getting started.
  • Email notification of new billing cycles.

Return on Investment

  • Still in development but it has the potential to minimize the time it takes searching platforms for data.
  • Has the potential to increase ROI by helping to filter through the good, bad and relevant data.
  • Definitely a consideration use in our lead generation work.

Usability

fabulous scraping tool

Arnau Mallol RosView profile
Automation Architect in Information Technology at IBA (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Apify to scrape data on scale. It integrates super easily to our systems thanks to their API. They have thousands of such called actors that perform tasks for every need. Also it really helps that the pricing is very predictive so we can plan accordingly. We use Apify mainly for lean generation and lead enrichment.

Pros

  • Scrape Data
  • Integrate with our systems
  • Automate lead gen

Cons

  • Expensive sometimes for rent actors
  • Some actor may not work so you have to try them first

Return on Investment

  • I have no idea on the ROI but it is one of the cheapest ways to get leads at scale

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Make and Zapier

Other Software Used

n8n

9.910

Incentivized
Aiden HartmanView profile
Founder in Sales at Reply Factory (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apify all the time when automating sales systems. My top use cases are: scraping lead info from databases, scraping personal info from websites, linkedin profiles, etc. I also use Apify in make.com scenarios, which run daily in my business. I've tried to create webscraping tech before, but it's way easier to pay a few cents in API calls than to build it yourself. Would highly recommend.

Pros

  • comprehensive array of actors. whatever you need, there's an actor for it. I don't have to go on multiple websites with different logins - everything is all in one place.
  • Integrations with make.com and other no-code platforms.
  • Super easy-to-use api endpoints, have not had many issues at all.

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

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

Usability

Other Software Used

Make, Apollo.io, LinkedIn Sales Navigator

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