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13 Best Apify Alternatives & Competitors (2026)
The top alternatives to Apify in the Web Scraping space, compared on features, pricing, and what they're best at.
Updated March 9, 2026
Why look beyond Apify?
Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform with a marketplace of 6,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors). It provides managed browser infrastructure, proxy rotation, and data storage for large-scale web data extraction. Apify is widely used for feeding web data into AI applications and RAG pipelines.
Top alternatives to Apify
Firecrawl
Web scraping optimized for LLMs
Crawl4AI
Exa
Jina AI
Neural search and embeddings
Proxyon
Residential, datacenter, and IPv6 proxies
Spider
Diffbot
Parallel AI
Deep Research API for multi-hop tasks
ScrapeGraphAI
Context.dev
Unified API for scraping (Markdown/HTML), crawling, and structured extraction
AlterLab
LLM-ready structured JSON output
Linkup
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