Apify Scraping API Review
By ProxyGlance Editorial Team · Last reviewed
Our verdict
Marketplace of 86,000+ ready-made scrapers (Actors) plus hosting for your own crawlers, proxies and an Unblocker, billed from prepaid monthly usage credit.
Best for: Teams that want ready-made scrapers for specific sites (Google Maps, social media, e-commerce) or a place to host their own crawlers, rather than a single scraping endpoint.
From
$19.00
per month (Starter plan, $19 usage credit)
Pros
- Free plan with $5 of monthly usage credit, no card required
- Apify Store has 86,000+ ready-made Actors for specific sites
- Datacenter, residential and SERP proxies plus an Unblocker on the same account
Cons
- Costs are hard to predict: compute units, storage, transfer, proxies and per-Actor prices
- Unused prepaid usage credit expires at the end of each billing cycle
- Fees are non-refundable, including on downgrade or cancellation
About Apify
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation built around Actors: serverless scraping programs you write yourself or run from the Apify Store, which lists more than 86,000 ready-made scrapers. It also sells datacenter, residential and Google SERP proxies and an Unblocker as platform add-ons.
Full review in progress
Our hands-on test of Apify scraping API is still running. Until it's published, this page lists the facts from Apify's official pages. See how we test.
Specs
- Starting price
- $19.00 per month (Starter plan, $19 usage credit)
- Free trial
- Free plan ($5 monthly usage credit), no card
- API types
- General web, SERP, E-commerce, Social media, Unblocker
- JavaScript rendering
- Yes
- Parsed JSON output
- Yes
- Pay only for success
- No
Score breakdown
Not scored yet. We publish a score only after hands-on testing. The facts on this page come from Apify's official pages, last checked .
When we score it, these criteria and weights apply:
- Performance · 30%
- Target Coverage · 15%
- Pricing & Value · 20%
- Features · 15%
- Ease of Use · 10%
- Support · 5%
- Trust & Compliance · 5%
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The ProxyGlance Editorial Team researches and reviews proxy networks, scraping APIs and antidetect browsers for developers, data teams and agencies. Every guide follows our published review process: we compare products on the same criteria — performance, coverage, real pricing at common plan sizes, features, ease of use, support and trust — check facts against each vendor's own documentation and pricing pages, and re-check them whenever a vendor changes its plans. We don't accept payment for coverage or rankings.