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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Apify vs Browserbase

Apify (Web Scraping platform) vs Browserbase for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Apify (Web Scraping platform) compared with Browserbase per decision axis
AxisApify (Web Scraping platform)BrowserbaseEdge
Price$0.5 per 1000 requests*$0.05 per 1000 requests*—
Success———
LLM-ready✓——
browser✓✓—

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.

Strengths & caveats
ApifyBroadest platform: 61,000+ ready-made Actors, full browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer) and LLM-ready crawlers (Website Content Crawler -> markdown); free tier with $5 credits/month. Price is Compute-Unit-/Actor-dependent and therefore unpredictable (~$0.20/1000 via HTTP up to $0.50-$5.00/1000 with a browser, plus separate proxy and data-transfer fees) — not comparable as a fixed per-request price; no independent aggregate success rate, as results vary per Actor.BrowserbasePure cloud-browser infrastructure built for AI agents: full programmable browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP), per-hour billing and 25 concurrent browsers from $20/month (100 concurrent on the $99 Startup plan). No ready-made unblocking/anti-bot layer or LLM-ready extraction (raw browser output); billing per browser-hour ($0.10-$0.12/hour) + proxy per GB does not convert to per-request — the $0.05/1000 is a rough light estimate and therefore not comparable; no independent success benchmark.
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