Apify: Extensive cloud platform hosting pre-built scrapers, crawlers, and automation actors for data extraction. Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Thor Data records 181,966 monthly visits with -3.5% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | thordata.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 181.97K (181,966) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | -6.55K (-3.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇵🇱 Poland (8.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 70.44K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 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.
Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
Access 100M+ rotating real-user IPs across 190+ countries at from $0.65/GB, with rotation and sticky sessions.
Use real 4G/5G mobile IPs for mobile-specific and hard-to-access targets with carrier-level diversity.
Pull accurate, real-time results from Google, Bing, and more, starting from $0.70 per 1,000 responses.
Deploy 120+ prebuilt scrapers, a stealth Scraping Browser, and web unblocking to collect data at scale.
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-sourceDeveloper-first scraping API that crawls and converts websites into clean LLM-ready markdown or JSON.
Free / Open-sourceDeveloper-first scraping API that crawls and converts websites into clean LLM-ready markdown or JSON.
SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue
Developer API platform providing live web search, content fetching, cloud browsers, and agentic web automation.
SpecialistWeb search and crawling API engineered specifically for AI agents and LLM application integration.
Comprehensive web data infrastructure powerhouse offering extensive proxy networks and advanced scraping APIs.
Comprehensive web data infrastructure powerhouse offering extensive proxy networks and advanced scraping APIs.
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.
SpecialistSearch infrastructure providing URL-to-Markdown document readers, neural embeddings, and web search endpoints.
SpecialistSearch infrastructure providing URL-to-Markdown document readers, neural embeddings, and web search endpoints.
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.
SpecialistManaged cloud headless browser platform supplying HTTP and WebSocket APIs for web automation.
SpecialistManaged cloud headless browser platform supplying HTTP and WebSocket APIs for web automation.
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.
