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Apify
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Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
4.4M visits/mo2.0K saves
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Zapier MCP
✓ verifiedFreemium
Widely used no-code automation platform connecting thousands of apps, now extended with AI agents, chatbots, and an MCP server.
6.0M visits/mo
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Zara
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Data lab providing expert human data, RL environments, and contextual evaluations to train and assess AI models and agents.
6.3M visits/mo45K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo ($5 included usage)
Starter: $29/mo ($26/mo billed annually)
Scale: $199/mo ($179/mo billed annually)
Business: $999/mo ($899/mo billed annually)
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No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Email Marketing
- ✦SMS Marketing
- ✦Mobile Push Notifications
- ✦Customer Data Platform (CDP)
- ✦Product Reviews Collection
- ✦Segmentation
- ✦Automated Flows
- ✦AI-powered content generation
- ✦Predictive Analytics and Benchmarks
- ✦Real-time data activation
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Data extraction
- ✦Browser automation
- ✦AI agents
- ✦Anti-blocking
- ✦Proxy rotation
- ✦Open-source tools (Crawlee)
- ✦Ready-made tools and code templates
- ✦Zap workflows linking triggers and actions across 9,000+ apps
- ✦No-code AI agent builder for task-specific assistants
- ✦Chatbots for answering customer questions with AI
- ✦Canvas for visually planning and mapping workflows
- ✦Tables for storing data that workflows can read and update
- ✦Forms for capturing inputs that trigger automations
- ✦Zapier MCP server to connect AI chat tools to app integrations
- ✦Realm: RL environments and frontier evaluations
- ✦Cortex: contextual evaluation for production AI agents
- ✦Expert-demonstrated robotics training data
- ✦Benchmarks such as LongExtractionBench
- ✦Expert human data partnerships
- ✦Research lab on human data markets
Use cases
- →Sending rich, engaging email campaigns with dynamic content and product recommendations.
- →Reaching VIP customers via SMS for two-way conversations.
- →Boosting engagement and retaining mobile app users with perfectly timed notifications.
- →Consolidating and activating customer data to create comprehensive customer profiles.
- →Collecting and showcasing customer-written reviews to build trust and increase sales.
- →Automating marketing workflows and campaigns for personalized customer journeys.
- →Analyzing campaign performance with accurate attribution and reporting.
- →Guiding marketing strategy with AI, predictive analytics, and peer benchmarks.
- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Teams automating cross-app workflows without engineering resources
- →RevOps/Sales teams routing leads and updating CRMs automatically
- →Support teams deploying AI chatbots for common questions
- →Developers connecting AI coding agents to thousands of apps via MCP
- →Train and evaluate frontier AI models
- →Improve agent performance in production
- →Source expert human data for AI labs
- →Gather demonstration data for robotics
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