Top Apify Alternatives in 2026

Bright Data is the closest match to Apify in scale and breadth. Instead of one flat plan, you pay per GB for proxies or per 1,000 successful records through its Web Scraper API and SERP API, and Bright Data's own pricing pages show those pay-as-you-go rates dropping once you commit to a $499+/month plan. Like Apify, it ships over 1,000 pre-built scrapers for specific sites, so many jobs need no custom code at all. Its residential, datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxy pools are hard to match, which matters most once you are scraping sites that actively fight back with bot detection. The tradeoff is a familiar one: pricing is split across several separate product pages for proxies, the Web Scraper API, the SERP API, the Scraping Browser, and Datasets, so working out a real monthly bill takes some digging, and full datasets and larger deals are quote-only.

Zyte trades Apify's Actor marketplace for a single API endpoint: send a URL, get back HTML or extracted data, while Zyte handles proxy rotation, headless rendering, and anti-bot blocking behind the scenes. Billing is per successful request rather than per seat or expiring monthly credits, so you never pay for a blocked or failed page, something Apify's credit system does not guarantee. Teams already using the open-source Scrapy framework get a direct path to Zyte's Scrapy Cloud for hosting and monitoring their own spiders, plus a free VS Code extension that writes spiders from plain-language prompts. The catch is that browser-rendered requests can cost up to roughly 13 times a plain HTTP request, so JavaScript-heavy targets get expensive fast, and several Trustpilot reviewers report bills running well above what they expected.

ScrapingBee is a smaller, simpler version of what Apify's Actor-running core does: send a URL, get back rendered HTML or extracted fields, with proxies and a headless browser handled for you. Plans start at $49/month for 250,000 credits, but the credit math is easy to misjudge. JavaScript rendering costs 5 credits per request, premium proxies cost 10 credits (25 if combined with JS rendering), and stealth proxies cost 75, so a plan's headline credit count overstates what you actually get once you turn on the features most real scraping jobs need. One third-party benchmark found a 31% success rate across 13 popular scraping targets, with sites like LinkedIn and Twitter near 0%, so it suits general-purpose scraping better than the most heavily-defended targets. Support is consistently well rated, and the team more than doubled after ScrapingBee joined the Oxylabs group in January 2026.

Firecrawl is not a like-for-like Apify replacement so much as a purpose-built tool for one job Apify also does: turning pages into data your code can use, in this case for AI and RAG pipelines specifically. One API call returns clean markdown or JSON instead of raw HTML, and every plan draws from a single credit pool where scrape, crawl, map, and monitor calls each cost 1 credit per page. It is open source, with over 150,000 GitHub stars by its own count, and can be self-hosted, an option Apify does not offer. The free plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no card required, generous enough for real testing. What it lacks is Apify's Actor marketplace or Bright Data and Zyte's proxy depth, so it fits teams feeding an LLM pipeline more than teams scraping heavily-defended sites at high volume.

Octoparse covers the part of Apify's audience that does not want to write code. You click the fields you want inside its built-in browser and it builds a scraping template, no Actor code or CLI required. The free plan is a real one, not a trial: 10 tasks and up to 50,000 rows of data export a month, forever. Paid plans add cloud scheduling, IP rotation, and automatic CAPTCHA solving, but the jump from free straight to $83/month billed monthly (or $69 billed annually) for Standard, then to $299 for Professional, leaves no middle step. Residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving are billed separately from the plan price, echoing Apify's own layered billing, and the refund window on paid plans is a short 5 days from purchase.

Browse AI is the other no-code option, built more around watching pages for changes than one-off bulk extraction. You train a robot by clicking the data you want, then have it watch a page for changes and send you an alert, or just keep pulling that data on a schedule. Pricing runs on a credit pool, 1 credit equals 10 rows or 1 screenshot, rather than Apify's compute-unit model, starting at $19/month on an annual plan for 12,000 credits a year. It plugs directly into Google Sheets, Airtable, and Zapier, which suits ops teams who want scraped data landing somewhere familiar rather than pulled through an API. It has no code-first SDK or proxy pool of its own to speak of, so developers who need control over headless sessions or want Apify's Actor Store depth should look elsewhere.