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. BasedTools records 17,641 monthly visits with +73.7% growth and Free pricing.
A curated directory and search engine for discovering AI tools and products
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | basedtools.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 17.64K (17,641) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +156.83K (+3.9%) |
| +7.49K (+73.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (37.5%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 6.9K |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 3.8 |
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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.
A curated directory and search engine for discovering AI tools and products
Thousands of AI products grouped into practical categories such as chatbots, education assistants, legal tools, video generation and design utilities so you can start from a use case.
A dedicated "Launching Today" area rotates freshly added and newly released AI tools, making the directory useful for spotting new products early.
Intent-based search helps you jump straight to a tool instead of paging through category lists.
Founders can submit their own AI tool for consideration, which keeps the catalog growing with indie launches as well as established names.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
#1Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
#2SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue


Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
A curated AI tools directory with 5,000+ listings
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.

A hand-curated directory for discovering AI tools and resources

SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.
Discover AI tools and learn AI fundamentals in one searchable hub

A curated directory of thousands of AI tools, updated daily.
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.
Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
A curated AI tools directory with 5,000+ listings
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.
A hand-curated directory for discovering AI tools and resources
SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.
Discover AI tools and learn AI fundamentals in one searchable hub
A curated directory of thousands of AI tools, updated daily.