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. PDF.co records 78,590 monthly visits with -8.2% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
REST API to convert, edit and extract data from PDFs
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| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (12.5%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 31.91K |
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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.
REST API to convert, edit and extract data from PDFs
A low-code, HTTPS REST API handles conversion, merging, splitting, editing and generation of PDFs from any application or script.
Extracts structured data from PDF invoices and returns standardized JSON without building templates for each supplier format.
Pulls data from PDFs, scans, invoices, orders and reports, turning unstructured documents into machine-readable output.
Automatically sorts and organizes incoming PDFs using custom classification rules to streamline document management.
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


Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace.
Chat with any PDF and get cited answers instantly
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.

AI document parsing that turns PDFs and emails into structured data

Generate branded images, videos and PDFs at scale with a template API

OCR and multi-modal document extraction APIs with built-in fraud detection

SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.
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.
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.
AI document parsing that turns PDFs and emails into structured data
SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.