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. finlight records 8,479 monthly visits with +0.5% growth and Freemium pricing.

Real-time financial news API with AI sentiment and a boolean query engine
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | finlight.me |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 8.48K (8,479) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +45 (+0.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (47.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 3.34K |
| 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.

Real-time financial news API with AI sentiment and a boolean query engine
Every article arrives with a sentiment label and confidence score, plus extracted companies carrying ticker, exchange, industry, sector and ISIN identifiers.
Field-level filters, inclusion and exclusion operators, exact phrases, AND/OR/NOT logic and parentheses let you express surgical, low-noise news queries.
Pull data with REST for batch jobs, subscribe to a WebSocket stream for sub-second live updates, or receive webhook pushes to your own endpoint.
Officially supported client libraries for TypeScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java/Kotlin, PHP, Ruby and Rust, with plain cURL always available.
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
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