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. SharpAPI records 3,053 monthly visits with +158.1% growth and Free Trial, Contact for Pricing pricing.

Pre-built AI API endpoints that return clean JSON
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | sharpapi.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 3.05K (3,053) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +1.87K (+158.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (58.4%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 1.2K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| 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.

Pre-built AI API endpoints that return clean JSON
More than 30 endpoints span resume parsing, job matching, invoice extraction, translation, SEO tags, content summarization, sentiment and product description generation.
Test real endpoints in the browser on bundled sample documents and text, and see the same JSON your application would receive.
Turn any AI prompt into your own production REST API endpoint when the standard catalog does not cover a bespoke need.
Each subscription holds at least one credit that grants a monthly word quota; credits can be added or removed as volume changes.
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-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Free / Open-sourceBuild, train, and deploy computer vision for the physical world
Free / Open-sourceBuild, train, and deploy computer vision for the physical world
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.
SpecialistAI search and retrieval platform for modern apps and commerce
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.

Search foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs

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.
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.

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