Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Surfer records 249,599 monthly visits with -29.3% growth and Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
AI visibility platform to get your brand cited in AI search
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | surferseo.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 249.6K (249,599) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | -103.59K (-29.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (30.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 145.79K |
| 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.
AI visibility platform to get your brand cited in AI search
Run the prompts your buyers ask across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews, and see a visibility score, mention rate, and average position by brand, topic, and model.
See every domain and URL the AI answers cite, how often they appear, and whether they mention your brand, so you can target the sources that actually shape answers.
Draft and optimize articles in a guided editor built to earn citations in AI answers and rankings in Google, with content audit and topical map support.
Find the questions your audience asks AI and Google, and spot weak pages and content gaps worth fixing or rebuilding.
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.
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.
Provides robust AI search analytics and sentiment tracking in generative assistants, but offers less granular page-level optimization.
Provides robust AI search analytics and sentiment tracking in generative assistants, but offers less granular page-level optimization.
SpecialistAI Search Visibility Platform for GEO & AEO
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.
SpecialistAI SEO agents that rank on Google and get cited by AI chatbots
SpecialistAI SEO agents that rank on Google and get cited by AI chatbots
Stronger dedicated focus on tracking brand mentions across conversational search engines, but lacks Surfer's broader content optimization workflows.
Stronger dedicated focus on tracking brand mentions across conversational search engines, but lacks Surfer's broader content optimization workflows.
Specializes in AEO brand visibility tracking across major AI engines, though with fewer traditional SEO writing assistant features.
Specializes in AEO brand visibility tracking across major AI engines, though with fewer traditional SEO writing assistant features.
