Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
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Run and scale durable AI agents on your own infrastructure
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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.

Run and scale durable AI agents on your own infrastructure
Every Actor gets a SQLite database and a filesystem, so an agent's memory and progress survive restarts and idle periods without a separate database.
Run untrusted or AI-generated code on your own infrastructure with fine-grained control over network access, filesystem permissions, and resource limits.
A node failure reschedules its Actors elsewhere with state intact, and multi-step work replays after a crash — with no checkpointing harness to build yourself.
Address an Actor directly over HTTP or hold a live WebSocket, and use the React SDK to subscribe components to an Actor's state in real time.
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.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.

Free / Open-sourceThe TypeScript framework for building, deploying, and observing AI agents

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.
The low-cost cloud sandbox where AI agents actually live

Self-hosted cloud development environments and AI coding agents for enterprise teams

SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.

Persistent Ubuntu cloud VMs built for AI agent factories
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.
The low-cost cloud sandbox where AI agents actually live
SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.