Description

️ Tool name: 🖼
Apify

Tool category: 🔖

• Data preparation and cleaning
• Data and analytics
• Automation and smart agents
• Integrations and APIs
• Business and process management
• Programming and development

️ What does this tool offer? ✏
Apify allows you to easily and efficiently collect data from any website using ready-made tools known as Actors, which support serverless operation and data collection for use in AI applications, social media monitoring, marketing research, lead generation, and competitor analysis. The platform also provides an open-source Crawlee library with support for tools such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and Scrapy to create intelligent automation programs, with protection against blocking and automatic IP address changes. Apify also offers ready-made projects such as TikTok Scraper, Google Maps Scraper, Instagram Scraper, Website Content Crawler, Amazon Scraper, and Facebook Posts Scraper, with the ability to export data, run tools via API, schedule tasks, monitor performance, or integrate with other tools such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.

What does it actually offer based on user experience? ⭐
According to user reviews, Apify provides a comprehensive and flexible solution for data collection with the ability to scale according to usage. Users praise the speed and efficiency of Actors, the ease of customizing memory and the number of concurrent operations, and support for integration with residential proxies and data centers to enhance performance. The platform also allows developers to monetize by publishing Actors on the Apify store and reaching thousands of customers directly, with account management, billing, and infrastructure.

Does it include automation? 🤖
Yes, the platform relies on automated Actor execution, task scheduling, data synchronization, and workflow management without the need for traditional code, with advanced automation and database management capabilities.

Pricing model: 💰
🆓 Free plan details:
It offers a limited trial of the platform, with a limited number of Actors, memory, and operations, to try out data collection before moving to paid plans.

Paid plan details: 💳

  • Starter, Scale, and Business: Includes features such as chat support, memory management for Actors, running multiple tasks in parallel, with monthly or pay-as-you-go options based on Compute Units.

  • Enterprise: Designed for large companies with customized plans based on needs, priority technical support, personal training, residential proxies or data centers, and advanced automation capabilities.

  • Add-ons: Run multiple Actors in parallel ($5 per operation), increase Actor memory ($2 per gigabyte), use data center proxies (starting at $0.6 per IP), priority support ($100), personal training ($150/hour).

How to access the tool: 🧭
Apify can be accessed directly through a browser, or you can use the API to run Actors, schedule tasks, monitor performance, and integrate with other systems.

Trial link or official website: 🔗
https://apify.com/pricing

Pricing Details

The Apify platform offers a range of flexible plans and add-ons designed to meet the needs of different users, from individuals and startups to large enterprises. Users can choose plans such as Starter, Scale, Business, and Enterprise, with the option of paying a monthly subscription or paying per use, where the cost of running Actors is calculated in Compute Units based on the amount of memory and resources used. It is also possible to allocate dedicated memory to each Actor, increase the number of concurrent operations, and use residential proxies or data centers to enhance performance, with priority technical support or personal training provided when needed. The platform also offers custom add-ons such as running multiple Actors in parallel for $5 per operation, increasing Actor memory at a rate of $2 per gigabyte, using data center proxies starting at $0.6 per IP, priority technical support for $100, or personal training at $150 per hour. Storage and data are billed based on time-based storage, the number of reads and writes on data sets, key-value stores, and request lists, with specific prices per 1,000 operations or per gigabyte of internal or external data transfer. Apify supports different categories of users; it helps startups leverage data available on the internet to accelerate their growth, encourages universities to teach students how to collect and analyze data, and enables non-profit organizations to access data to support their social goals. The platform provides a flexible and powerful solution for data collection, with the ability to scale according to usage and integrated support for different teams and businesses.