Apify
a marketplace of ready-made scrapers, priced in ram-hours
the largest library of pre-built scrapers in the category and a first-class mcp server — sold in a compute unit that makes the cost of a page unknowable until after you run it.
Apify's product is not really a scraping api, it is a marketplace. thousands of pre-built Actors — scrapers and agents for specific sites — that you rent and run on its infrastructure, plus the option to publish your own. when the target is a well-known site somebody has already solved, this is the fastest path from problem to working data in the whole ranking.
it is also unusually well set up for agents. the official mcp server at mcp.apify.com lets a model discover and run Actors from the store, reach storages and pull results, and the server component is open source as @apify/actors-mcp-server. Crawlee, the underlying open-source library, carries 25,453 stars under Apache-2.0. this is a company that ships real open source around a closed platform.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- web scraping apis
- pricing
- $29 / month on Starter
- website
- apify.com
the largest library of pre-built scrapers in the category and a first-class mcp server — sold in a compute unit that makes the cost of a page unknowable until after you run it.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.