Updated March 10, 2026
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.
Linkup provides a search API for AI agents with real-time web search results.
What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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Respan lets you trace LLM and agent calls across any model or framework, A/B test prompts on production traffic, and route requests across 500+ models through one gateway.