Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
#1Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Backmesh records 874 monthly visits with +965.9% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Run GitHub Actions on spot VMs in your own AWS, GCP and Azure accounts
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | backmesh.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 874 (874) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) |
| +792 (+965.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇳🇬 Nigeria (100%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 394 |
|---|
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Over one hundred thousand ready-to-run scrapers and automation tools covering social media, maps, e-commerce, real estate, and general web crawling.
Connect Apify Actors directly to AI assistants and agents so they can search the store, run scrapers, and pull structured results as tool calls.
Managed proxy rotation and unblocking are built into the platform, so scrapers keep working when target sites add defenses.
An open-source crawling library plus Python and JavaScript SDKs for building custom Actors with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or Cheerio.
Run GitHub Actions on spot VMs in your own AWS, GCP and Azure accounts
A single Backmesh install receives your GitHub queued jobs and dispatches each to its own spot VM in AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
Cloud connections use roles created from your own CLI session, and Backmesh never receives your code, secrets, caches or logs.
A status command reports runner VMs, queue times, 24-hour and 7-day job stats and month-to-date cost in one place.
Every job log ends with peak memory, OOM kills, CPU and disk usage so you can right-size jobs.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
#1The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering
#2Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
#3SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
One OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control

Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.

SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.
The AI cloud built by the creators of PyTorch Lightning
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
One OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.