Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. boat records 66,870 monthly visits with +520.8% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Persistent Ubuntu cloud VMs built for AI agent factories
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | boat.dev |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 66.87K (66,870) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +56.1K (+520.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (76.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 37.78K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
Persistent Ubuntu cloud VMs built for AI agent factories
Each sandbox is a complete Ubuntu machine with systemd, Docker, databases, and cron, so anything that runs on Linux runs here.
Clone a configured sandbox from a disk snapshot in seconds to launch large fleets of identical parallel agents.
Connect over SSH and SCP or open a 60fps virtual desktop and browser to inspect web apps, IDEs, and 3D scenes.
Drive everything programmatically through the boat CLI (with --json output), an HTTP API, or Python and TypeScript SDKs.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering
Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
Free / Open-sourceProvides direct LLM-ready markdown conversion via API, but lacks Apify's massive marketplace of pre-built scraping actors.
SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
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.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.
Cloud browsers and web APIs for AI agents
Cloud browsers and web APIs for AI agents
SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.
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.
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.
The low-cost cloud sandbox where AI agents actually live
The low-cost cloud sandbox where AI agents actually live
