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. Ducky records 1,966 monthly visits with -8.4% growth and Freemium pricing.

Fully managed AI search and RAG infrastructure for developers
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| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (100%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 774 |
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| 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.

Fully managed AI search and RAG infrastructure for developers
Index and search across text, images and PDFs with one API, so content stays searchable regardless of format.
Ducky splits and optimizes documents for retrieval and applies multi-stage reranking so the strongest matches surface first.
Narrow results precisely by attributes such as date, category or tag to build filtered, product-grade search experiences.
Agents can ask questions and receive synthesized answers that cite their sources, with the whole search-to-synthesis pipeline automated.
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


SpecialistWeb search API and crawler built for AI agents

SpecialistSearch and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data

Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
SpecialistAI search and retrieval platform for modern apps and commerce
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.
SpecialistThe managed vector database and knowledge engine for production AI

Search foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs

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.
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.
SpecialistSearch and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
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.