The best Apify
alternatives.
When your target isn't in the catalog. The tools that work on every URL, not just the ones with a pre-built scraper.
Five ways to get the real data.
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Zenrows
Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract, and browser sessions as one toolkit. The page, the structured data, and the results, in real time.
Best for · production web data, end to end
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Scrapfly
A scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, and extraction.
Best for · a focused scraping API
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Firecrawl
Turns public pages into clean Markdown for LLMs, with crawling.
Best for · LLM-ready text from public sites
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Bright Data
A large proxy network with scraping infrastructure, at enterprise scale.
Best for · massive proxy reach
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Zyte
A scraping platform from the Scrapy team, with smart proxies and AI extraction.
Best for · teams building on Scrapy
Switching from Apify.
Apify runs pre-built Actors per target, each with its own per-run pricing. Migrating means replacing per-target Actors with one call that works on every URL.
- No catalog lookup before starting
- Long-tail targets work the same day
- One pricing model across targets
// before: one Actor per target
const run = await client.actor("apify/web-scraper")
.call({ startUrls: [{ url }] });
// after: the same call on any URL
const { ZenRows } = require("zenrows");
const client = new ZenRows("YOUR_ZENROWS_API_KEY");
const response = await client.get(url, { autoparse: true });How we ranked them.
Reach
Any URL including protected and dynamic pages, or only some targets.
Anti-bot
Bypass built in, or your problem to solve.
Output
Structured data and full pages, or raw HTML.
Scope
One primitive, or a full web-data toolkit.