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. Prolific records 77,755 monthly visits with -24% growth and Paid pricing.
Real human data for AI training, evals, and research — in minutes
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | prolific.co |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 77.76K (77,755) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | -24.51K (-24%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (15%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 62.15K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| 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 human data for AI training, evals, and research — in minutes
Access hundreds of thousands of vetted participants across 40+ countries, with demographic screening so you can target the exact population your study or evaluation needs.
Purpose-built workflows for collecting human preference judgments, red-teaming feedback, and benchmark ratings for large language and multimodal models.
Programmatic access that lets engineering teams pipe real human feedback into model evaluation and agent workflows without leaving their own tooling.
Launch a study in minutes, set quotas and reward levels, and scale sample sizes up or down while keeping response quality consistent.
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

Targeted research audiences with AI-verified data quality
Targeted research audiences with AI-verified data quality
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

Free / Open-sourceWeb search API and crawler built for AI agents
Free / Open-sourceThe real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research
Free / Open-sourceThe real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research

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.

The environments frontier AI trains on, and the agents that do the recurring work
The environments frontier AI trains on, and the agents that do the recurring work
The data, evaluations and systems behind AI that has to be right.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.

Turn customer voices into confident decisions

SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.