SpecialistA unified API gateway routing requests across hundreds of language models, but lacking dataset hosting.
SpecialistA unified API gateway routing requests across hundreds of language models, but lacking dataset hosting.
Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Hugging Face records 31,232,542 monthly visits with +0.1% growth and Freemium, Paid pricing.

Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | huggingface.co |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 31.23M (31,232,542) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +40.25K (+0.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (19.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 13.4M |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| 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.
The open platform where the machine learning community hosts models, datasets, and AI apps
Search, download, and publish across millions of models and hundreds of thousands of datasets, complete with model cards, versioning, and citations.
Deploy Gradio, Streamlit, or static apps directly from a repository to show off a model, run comparisons, or share a tool with a public link.
Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, Accelerate, PEFT, TRL, and smolagents give you end-to-end tooling for training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Inference Providers route a single API to tens of thousands of models from multiple vendors, while Inference Endpoints spin up dedicated GPU hardware on demand.
SpecialistA unified API gateway routing requests across hundreds of language models, but lacking dataset hosting.
SpecialistA unified API gateway routing requests across hundreds of language models, but lacking dataset hosting.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running and managing open-source LLMs locally on your hardware instead of relying on cloud hosting.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running and managing open-source LLMs locally on your hardware instead of relying on cloud hosting.
SpecialistFocuses strictly on community-driven discovery and sharing of generative image and video models rather than text LLMs.
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

SpecialistOne API for 1,500+ production-ready generative media models
Free / Open-sourceAn alternative open-source model repository and community hub, featuring extensive regional models and online interactive demos.
Free / Open-sourceAn alternative open-source model repository and community hub, featuring extensive regional models and online interactive demos.
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.

Provides robust serverless inference and fine-tuning APIs for open-source models, replacing Hugging Face's hosted endpoints.
Provides robust serverless inference and fine-tuning APIs for open-source models, replacing Hugging Face's hosted endpoints.
SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue

Offers cloud APIs for running and fine-tuning machine learning models with simpler pricing than custom infrastructure.
Offers cloud APIs for running and fine-tuning machine learning models with simpler pricing than custom infrastructure.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local model running
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local model running

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.