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
Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Defang records 2,043 monthly visits with -49% growth and Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.

Deploy Compose apps and AI agents to your own cloud account
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | defang.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 2.04K (2,043) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | -1.97K (-49%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (80.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 800 |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 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.

Deploy Compose apps and AI agents to your own cloud account
Deploy a Docker Compose file into your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account without managing Kubernetes by hand.
Spin up review environments for changes, including those produced by AI agents, before promoting to production.
Run coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex against your own Anthropic and OpenAI accounts, reachable from any browser.
Work with Defang engineers inside your codebase and cloud accounts to rebuild your delivery workflow.
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
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
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.

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.

SpecialistAI DevOps engineer that deploys and scales your apps
SpecialistAI DevOps engineer that deploys and scales your apps
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

Self-hosted cloud development environments and AI coding agents for enterprise teams

SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.
SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.