Apify vs ScrapeGraphAI
Apify is a Scraping API, while ScrapeGraphAI is an AI extraction API. 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. ScrapeGraphAI fits best for: Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library.
| Apify | ScrapeGraphAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Scraping API | AI extraction API |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $20/mo |
| Free tier | $5 of platform usage per month, no credit card, 5 concurrent runs | 500 one-time credits, 10 req/min |
| 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. | Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library. |
| Visit Apify | Visit ScrapeGraphAI |
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 ScrapeGraphAI
- Describe what you want in natural language, get JSON
- Open-source Python library (MIT) with graph-based pipelines
- Hosted API v2 with extract, crawl and search
- Official MCP server (mcp.scrapegraphai.com)
Watch out for
- Free credits are one-time, not monthly
- Extraction costs 5 credits per call
- Smaller company than Firecrawl/Apify; anti-bot depth less proven
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