Apify vs Octoparse
Apify is a Scraping API, while Octoparse 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. Octoparse fits best for: Business users who need recurring, template-driven scraping without code and prefer a visual desktop tool.
| Apify | Octoparse | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Scraping API | No-code |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $69/mo |
| Free tier | $5 of platform usage per month, no credit card, 5 concurrent runs | Free forever: 10 tasks, local runs only, 1 device, up to 50K rows exported/month |
| Pricing model | usage (compute units) plus per-Actor pay-per-event/pay-per-result pricing | subscription tiers by task count and cloud concurrency |
| 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. | Business users who need recurring, template-driven scraping without code and prefer a visual desktop tool. |
| Visit Apify | Visit Octoparse |
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 Octoparse
- Visual point-and-click workflow designer (Windows/Mac app)
- Large library of prebuilt templates
- Cloud extraction with scheduling
- IP rotation and CAPTCHA solving on paid plans
Watch out for
- Desktop app has a learning curve for complex sites
- Cloud runs and proxies require paid plans
- Not an LLM-first tool; limited schema-based AI extraction
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