IN THE FIELD GUIDE
apify
apify.com
Apify is a platform offering thousands of tools to automate business processes by extracting real-time web data, tracking competitors, generating leads, and integrating apps and AI agents. It provides a marketplace of trusted tools for AI and supports running scrapers via API, scheduling, monitoring, and integration with other tools.
THE PRODUCT, BEYOND THE PITCH
Editorially reviewed · Sources checked Sep 10, 2026
A good fit for
- Businesses and developers needing scalable web scraping and automation tools for data extraction and integration with AI workflows.
Know the limitations
- Free plan users have limited access to Apify Proxy restricted to use within the platform and not for external clients.
What you can do
- Automate web data extraction for competitor tracking, lead generation, and social media monitoring.
- Feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines with extracted website content.
Features
- Extract data from TikTok videos, hashtags, and users with options to export data, run via API, schedule and monitor runs, or integrate with other tools.
- Extract data from Google Maps locations and businesses including reviews, images, contact info, opening hours, prices, and more, with export, API, scheduling, monitoring, and integration capabilities.
- Extract Instagram posts, reels, profiles, places, hashtags, carousels, and comments with export, API, scheduling, monitoring, and integration options.
- Crawl websites and extract text content with rich Markdown formatting, HTML cleaning, file downloads, and integration with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and LLM ecosystems.
- Scrape data from e-commerce websites to monitor price details over time or compare offerings across sites.
Integrations
- Supports integration with APIs, AI agents, and other tools for workflow automation and data processing.
Platforms & data export
- Accessible via API, CLI, and web interface with scheduling and monitoring capabilities.
THE COST FOR YOUR TEAM
Go beyond the starting price.
Published plan prices for your team size and usage. Results update as you type. Taxes, currency conversion and unlisted add-ons are excluded, and anything the source did not state is called out rather than guessed.
Cheapest fit for 1 person, all 1 tools
$0.00/month
$0.00 a year on these plans.
| Tool / plan | Monthly | Per year | What this assumes |
|---|---|---|---|
FreeCheapest fit Flat subscription | $0.00 | $0.00 | Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Confirm usage, taxes and terms with the provider. |
A practical workflow
- Start with a free plan, build or select Actors from the Apify Store, run them via API or schedule, and scale with paid plans and add-ons as needed.
- Use prepaid platform usage credits included in plans to pay for services like Actors, proxies, data transfer, and storage; excess usage is billed monthly.
- Upgrade plans anytime to access more prepaid usage, higher concurrency, more RAM, and better support.
Based on the sources below. Editorial review does not imply hands-on product testing.
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