Apify vs Browse AI
Apify is a Scraping API, while Browse AI is a No-code. Apify fits best for: Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own. Browse AI fits best for: Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code.
| Apify | Browse AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Scraping API | No-code |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $19/mo |
| Free tier | $5 of platform usage per month, no credit card, 5 concurrent runs | 50 credits/month, 2 websites, 3 users, unlimited robots |
| Pricing model | usage (compute units) plus per-Actor pay-per-event/pay-per-result pricing | credits |
| AI extraction | ||
| Structured JSON | ||
| JS rendering | ||
| Proxies / anti-bot | ||
| API | ||
| No-code UI | ||
| Open source | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Best for | Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own. | Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code. |
| Visit Apify | Visit Browse AI |
Why choose Apify
- Apify Store with thousands of prebuilt scrapers (Actors)
- Build and deploy your own Actors (Crawlee, JS/Python)
- Built-in proxy, scheduling, storage and webhooks
- Official MCP server exposing Actors to AI agents
Watch out for
- Costs can be hard to predict across compute units and per-Actor fees
- Quality of community Actors varies
- Free plan's proxy usable only inside the platform
Why choose Browse AI
- Point-and-click robot training, no code
- Scheduled monitoring with change alerts
- Prebuilt robots for popular sites
- Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier and Make integrations
Watch out for
- Credits run out fast on the free and Personal plans
- Large price gap between annual and monthly billing
- Not designed for LLM/schema extraction or high-volume crawling
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