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. StackRef records 765 monthly visits with +184.4% growth and Contact for Pricing pricing.
Senior cloud, DevOps and security consulting plus a self-hosted hackathon manager
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | stackref.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 765 (765) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +496 (+184.4%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (100%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 305 |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 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.
Senior cloud, DevOps and security consulting plus a self-hosted hackathon manager
Hands-on architecture, security, and cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and Azure, led by a CISSP-certified architect with 20+ years of experience.
Focused engagements on hardening cloud environments and supporting compliance, with an emphasis on robust, well-governed infrastructure.
Practical work to reduce cloud spend and right-size infrastructure without sacrificing reliability.
A self-designed, self-hosted, end-to-end internal hackathon manager covering sandbox environments and AI scoring to run innovation events.
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.

Free / Open-sourceGoogle's batteries-included framework for scalable web apps
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.

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.

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.

SpecialistAI agents that automate browser workflows on any website

Provides automated data extraction through no-code agents, but features a narrower ecosystem than Apify's cloud platform.
Provides automated data extraction through no-code agents, but features a narrower ecosystem than Apify's cloud platform.

SpecialistNo-code web scraping and AI workflow automation in the cloud
SpecialistNo-code web scraping and AI workflow automation in the cloud