Apify is a cloud-based web scraping and automation platform with a marketplace of 25,000+ pre-built Actors (scraping tools) for sites like Google, LinkedIn, Amazon, and TikTok. It offers an MCP server that exposes Actors as tools for AI agents and AI Extract endpoints for natural-language-driven structured data extraction. Apify targets developers, data teams, and AI builders who need reliable, scalable web data pipelines with minimal infrastructure management. Key features: - 25,000+ pre-built Actors for web scraping and automation - AI Extract: natural-language field description returns structured JSON - MCP server exposing Actors as tools for AI agent pipelines - Scheduling, proxies, and cloud storage built in - Integrations with Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier, and Make - REST API and SDK for custom actor development
Free: $0/month with $5 credits. Starter: $29/month. Creator: $1/month + pay-as-you-go. Scale/Business: higher tiers with lower per-CU rates (~$0.13-$0.20/CU).