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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

ScraperAPI vs Apify

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

Head to head
ScraperAPI compared with Apify (Web Scraping platform) per decision axis
AxisScraperAPIApify (Web Scraping platform)Edge
Price$0.149 per 1000 requests*$0.5 per 1000 requests*—
Success68.95%——
LLM-ready—✓—
browser—✓—

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

Strengths & caveats
ScraperAPILow base rate (~$0.149/1000 credits on Startup) with a simple proxy+rendering API and a generous free tier (1000 credits/month). Lowest independent success rate of the tested set on protected sites (68.95% at Proxyway 2025); credits add up fast (JS 5-10x, anti-bot +10, Google 25, LinkedIn 30) so price is not comparable; barely any LLM-ready output.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.
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