WaterCrawl: Offers an open-source self-hostable web crawling framework, requiring more manual setup than Apify's managed cloud. Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. WaterCrawl records 5,392 monthly visits with +42.7% growth and Freemium pricing.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Open-source web crawling that turns sites into LLM-ready data
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | watercrawl.dev |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 5.39K (5,392) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | +1.61K (+42.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (42.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 2.15K |
| 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.
Open-source web crawling that turns sites into LLM-ready data
Fine-tune crawling scope with depth, domain, and path settings plus a maximum page limit so crawls stay targeted.
Capture dynamic, JS-driven content with configurable wait times and save pages as PDF or JPG.
Run advanced web searches for real-time results and automatically map every URL on a site.
Built-in OpenAI integration transforms raw HTML into structured, meaningful data without manual parsing.
Free / Open-sourceHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Free / Open-sourceHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
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
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-sourceTurn any document into AI-ready context with agentic parsing and extraction
Free / Open-sourceTurn any document into AI-ready context with agentic parsing and extraction
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.
Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data
Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data
No-code AI web scraping that builds, runs, and repairs its own bots
No-code AI web scraping that builds, runs, and repairs its own bots
SpecialistAI agents that automate browser workflows on any website
Scrape Google Maps business leads and export them to CSV, Excel, or JSON
Scrape Google Maps business leads and export them to CSV, Excel, or JSON
