Compare Apify vs. scrapestack

Apify provides the infrastructure developers need to build, deploy, and monetize web automation tools. The platform centers on Apify Store, a marketplace featuring 10,000+ community-built Actors. These are serverless programs that scrape websites, automate browser tasks, and power AI agents. Developers create Actors using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee (Apify's open-source crawling library), then publish them to the Store. When other users run your Actor, you earn money. Apify manages the infrastructure, handles payments, and processes monthly payouts to thousands of active developers. Apify Store offers ready-to-use solutions for common use cases: extracting data from Amazon, Google Maps, and social platforms; monitoring prices; generating leads; and much more. Under the hood, Actors automatically manage proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, JavaScript-heavy pages, and headless browser orchestration. The platform scales on demand with 99.95% uptime and maintains SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance. For workflow automation, Apify connects to Zapier, Make, n8n, and LangChain. The platform also offers an MCP server, enabling AI assistants like Claude to discover and invoke Actors programmatically.

Leverage our vast network of over 35 million datacenter and residential IP addresses from various global ISPs, featuring real devices, smart retries, and IP rotation. Select from more than 100 global locations for your web scraping API requests, or opt for random geo-targets that cover numerous major cities around the world. The scrapestack API is designed to provide a straightforward REST API interface for large-scale web page scraping, eliminating the need to manually manage geolocations, IP blocks, or CAPTCHAs. It includes a range of essential web scraping functionalities, such as JavaScript rendering, customizable HTTP headers, diverse geo-target options, and support for POST/PUT requests, along with the choice to utilize premium residential proxies as an alternative to datacenter proxies. Additionally, this API is tailored to enhance your web scraping experience by ensuring reliability and efficiency.