Best ScrapingBee alternative

Scraping complex websites requires more than an API. Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform that gives you full control over the creation, deployment, and monitoring of your own web scraping solutions, as well as the ability to customize existing tools. Here's how Apify fits your needs.

Apify and ScrapingBee compared

Apify

Free trial

Program Headless Chrome browsers in JavaScript

Scale up using proxies

API access

Store and manage data in the cloud

Library of pre-built web scrapers

Host code in the cloud

Fetch from repository, push code from local computer, or use our online code editor

Usage-based pricing

Custom scraper development

Export to CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, or RSS Feed

Schedule one-off or repeating extractions

Pricing

From $39/month

Free trial

Program Headless Chrome browsers in JavaScript

Scale up using proxies

API access

Store and manage data in the cloud

Library of pre-built web scrapers

Host code in the cloud

Usage-based pricing

Custom scraper development

Export to CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, or RSS Feed

Schedule one-off or repeating extractions

Pricing

Apify

Fetch from repository, push code from local computer, or use our online code editor

From $39/month

ScrapingBee

You can use a limited API in a declarative manner, but you can't program the browsers fully.

Manage code hosting yourself

JSON only

From $49/month

If Apify disappeared, I’d have to build my own scrapers and handle server hosting myself. Apify’s handling of these aspects is invaluable.

Tom Hall

Tom Hall

Founder

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We looked at several providers both open source and paid solutions, and Apify was the most complete, reliable solution we found. It was miles ahead of everything else we reviewed.

Pranav Singh

Pranav Singh

Engineering Manager

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Apify has helped our organization in building some of the best tools for our customers. Apify services allow for consistency - prior we ran everything on our own infrastructure and it was a nightmare. Thanks to Apify - all of our crawlers run smoothly and we don’t have to worry about the infrastructure or the proxies.

Steven Pignataro

Steven Pignataro

Co-CEO

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We selected Apify because of their vast experience with web data collection. The project has been delivered on a short schedule, and our sales teams are now empowered with fresh, unique leads that drive targeted campaigns and strategic outreach.

Filip Popovic

Filip Popovic

SVP Transformation & Product & HR

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The developer's swiss army knife. What I absolutely love about Apify is the community and ecosystem around it. Apify Store is a treasure trove of pre-built Actors that save you a ton of time. It's like having a team of experts contributing to your project.

Jiri Novak

Jiri Novak

Engineer

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Get more for less

While ScrapingBee gives you access to an API for $49/month, Apify offers a $39/month plan that includes platform credits for unlimited access to thousands of scraping APIs, proxies, and custom scraper hosting — all under one plan.

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SuperScraper API

Apify offers a versatile REST API, our SuperScraper API, that lets you extract fully rendered HTML from any URL using a headless browser. You can access it with any Apify plan, including the free one!

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Thousands of scrapers at your fingertips

Every Apify plan gives you full access to Apify Store, packed with ready-made scrapers for top sites like Instagram, Amazon, Google, and more. From sentiment analysis to lead generation, you can find a scraper for nearly any site — no coding required, with customizations available on request.

Integrate Actors with your favorite apps

With Apify, you can schedule jobs to run automatically and integrate your workflows with 20+ services like Make, n8n, Gmail, Airtable, Make, Zapier, Google Drive, GitHub, Keboola, and more. Connect your Apify tasks with cloud services and web apps to enhance your automation capabilities.

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Build your own solution

If what you need isn't available already on Apify Store, you can build your own custom scraper on the platform. You have full control over the creation, deployment, and monitoring of your tools. With any pricing plan, you can code, host, and run your solutions on Apify servers.

Build with templates

Ready for enterprise

Get a complete end-to-end solution built by Apify for all your web scraping, data extraction, and web automation needs.

Scalable

Process millions of records, integrate Apify into your tech stack, and get the data you need.

Reliable

Data cleansing, Service Level Agreement & support team ensures clean data on time, every time

Trustworthy

With 7+ years of experience supporting enterprise customers, our team ensures project success.

Try Apify now

Our free plan will allow you to try our web scraping tools without the need for a credit card.