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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

ScrapingBee vs Apify

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

Head to head
ScrapingBee compared with Apify (Web Scraping platform) per decision axis
AxisScrapingBeeApify (Web Scraping platform)Edge
Price$0.099 per 1000 requests*$0.5 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
ScrapingBeeCheapest base rate in the field ($0.099/1000 base requests on Startup) and offers AI extraction; simple API with good docs. JS rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits (premium proxy 10, premium+JS 25, stealth proxy 75), so real cost is far higher — hence not comparable; success rate is heavily disputed between benchmarks (84.47% at Proxyway 2025 vs 48% at Scrapeway August 2026), so left null.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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