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Apify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
4.4M visits/mo2.0K saves
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Browserless
✓ verifiedFreemium
Managed headless-Chrome infrastructure that runs Puppeteer/Playwright scripts at scale with anti-bot bypass, so teams skip browser ops.
242K visits/mo
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)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free: $0 (1k units/mo, 2 browsers)
Prototyping: $25/mo (20k units)
Starter: $140/mo (180k units)
Scale: $350/mo (500k units)
Core features
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- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Data extraction
- ✦Browser automation
- ✦AI agents
- ✦Anti-blocking
- ✦Proxy rotation
- ✦Open-source tools (Crawlee)
- ✦Ready-made tools and code templates
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
- ✦Managed headless browsers (browser-as-a-service)
- ✦Drop-in Puppeteer/Playwright support
- ✦Anti-bot bypass and CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Screenshot, PDF and download APIs
- ✦MCP server for AI agents
- ✦Self-hosted and cloud deployment
- ✦Live debugger and observability
Use cases
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- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
- →Automate browser workflows and tests
- →Give AI agents a reliable browser
- →Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
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