Octoparse: Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution. Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Octoparse records 184,251 monthly visits with +1.2% growth and Freemium, Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | octoparse.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium, Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 184.25K (184,251) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +2.27K (+1.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (32%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 49.13K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 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.
Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data
Describe the site you want to scrape and let the AI Assistant browse it and assemble a working extraction task for you, then refine the selectors visually.
Start from maintained bundles for Twitter/X, Google Maps, Amazon top lists, TikTok, Google SERPs and more, including search APIs via REST and MCP.
Run tasks on a fleet of real cloud browsers with parallel subtasks and automatic IP rotation, so large jobs complete 24/7 without local hardware.
Navigate pagination, submit forms, authenticate into gated areas and handle CAPTCHAs, returning structured output from JavaScript-heavy sites.
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
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.
SpecialistOffers convenient natural language browser extension scraping, but lacks the deep scheduled server-side monitoring of Octoparse.
SpecialistOffers convenient natural language browser extension scraping, but lacks the deep scheduled server-side monitoring of Octoparse.
SpecialistTurn any document into AI-ready context with agentic parsing and extraction
SpecialistTurn any document into AI-ready context with agentic parsing and extraction
SpecialistExcels at complex AI-driven data workflows and multi-step automation, but is less focused on simple visual scraping tasks.
SpecialistExcels at complex AI-driven data workflows and multi-step automation, but is less focused on simple visual scraping tasks.
SpecialistSpecializes heavily in social media scraping and automated growth workflows, but offers fewer general web extraction features.
SpecialistSpecializes heavily in social media scraping and automated growth workflows, but offers fewer general web extraction features.
Utilizes autonomous AI agents for modern web scraping pipelines, but lacks Octoparse's mature visual desktop application.
Utilizes autonomous AI agents for modern web scraping pipelines, but lacks Octoparse's mature visual desktop application.
SpecialistAI agents that automate browser workflows on any website
Delivers strong enterprise data extraction and OCR capabilities, but has a less intuitive visual point-and-click interface.
Delivers strong enterprise data extraction and OCR capabilities, but has a less intuitive visual point-and-click interface.
Combines web scraping with automated cloud workflows and data enrichment, but has a steeper learning curve for beginners.
Combines web scraping with automated cloud workflows and data enrichment, but has a steeper learning curve for beginners.
