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
Octoparse
Score6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Octoparse is a no-code web scraping tool offering hundreds of online scraper templates designed for various scraping scenarios, such as e-commerce, social media, lead generation, Google search, financial data, real estate, and job search.
Users can collect desired data points through point-and-click actions. Features like API integration, cloud storage, cloud execution, and task scheduling provide a more flexible scraping experience. For more complex data scraping needs,…
$0
per month per user
Pricing
Apify
Octoparse
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.
Free
$0
per month per user
Standard
$119
per month per user
Professional
$299
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apify
Octoparse
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
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.
System Administrator in Information Technology at Kyndryl (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
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 …
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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 …
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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.
Octoparse is utilized to scratch item information from sites and programming projects that don't give XML or API and import them in web based businessAdditionally, it has solid capabilities to extract data from various types of sites, which is truly splendid. However it is not suitable to be used only in the free version as the features and usecases are limited.The user woould not face issues in implementation in the premium version. Implemetion specificallly in web-crawling does not require octoparse completely,but scrapping data, yes.
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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Other similar products like webautomation.io and webscarpper.io were tried and implemented along with Octoparse. Thier trial versions have much more limited features. The complexity while using Octoparse is relatively low and much more effecient and powerful to implement as compared to other softwares. Also usecases are quick to learn and implement.
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Its more costly than finding free solutions, but the advanced product of Apify will make up for that
No need to worry about multiple different implementations for different products. You only have to care about the Apify implementation which saves you a lot of time
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