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Apify
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Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
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Vespa
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Open-source AI search and vector database platform for building large-scale search, RAG, and recommendation systems.
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
DEVELOPER: FREE
STARTER: $119 / month
GROWTH: $599 / month
ENTERPRISE: Starting at $1,800 / month
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦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)
- ✦Digital Asset Management (DAM)
- ✦Media Asset Management (MAM)
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments
- ✦Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud, Cinema 4D, Sketch, and more
- ✦Version control
- ✦Fast search
- ✦Custom brand portals
- ✦Analytics
- ✦Developer-first platform for AI-powered integrations
- ✦Secure, isolated sandboxes for running JavaScript/Python code
- ✦Automatic management of npm/PyPI dependencies
- ✦Built-in platform plumbing: secrets, webhooks, scheduling, logs, and audit
- ✦Yep Agent (prompt → runnable processes)
- ✦MCP Server/Tools (convert code into AI agent tools)
- ✦Serverless runtime (YepCode Run) and SDK access
- ✦Combined vector, text, and structured search
- ✦Distributed machine-learned ranking at query time
- ✦Streaming search mode for cost-efficient personal/private data
- ✦Support for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines
- ✦Continuous deployment and automated scaling
- ✦Open-source core with a managed cloud option
Use cases
- →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
- →Managing work-in-progress images, graphics, layouts, and documents.
- →Automating video workflows, including transcoding and archiving.
- →Identifying objects, faces, logos, and scenes in media using AI.
- →Generating speech-to-text for search and closed captioning.
- →Creating rough video cuts instantly with AI.
- →Managing campaign assets and distributing them to various endpoints.
- →Enabling secure collaboration for remote and on-premises teams.
- →Building complex API integrations that require custom code and logic beyond what no-code tools offer.
- →Safely running AI-generated scripts in isolated environments with secrets management.
- →Automating workflows that require large datasets, loops, branching, or custom dependencies.
- →Connecting AI agents to external databases, APIs, and services using MCP tools.
- →Building large-scale enterprise search engines
- →Powering RAG pipelines that need strong retrieval relevance
- →Building recommendation and ad-targeting systems
- →Search over personal/private data at lower indexing cost
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