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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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Watsonx.data
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IBM's open, hybrid data lakehouse that connects, governs and optimizes enterprise data to make it AI-ready across clouds and on-premises.
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
No public pricing
Unlocker API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Crawl API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
SERP API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Browser API: Starts from $5.88/GB
Scrapers: Starts from $300/mo
Datasets: Starts from $250/mo
Functions: Starts from $2.7/1k req
RetailInsights: Starts from $1,000/mo
Residential Proxies: Starts from $3.53/GB
Datacenter Proxies: Starts from $0.9/IP
ISP Proxies: Starts from $1.3/IP
Mobile Proxies: Starts from $5.88/GB
Custom Scraper: Starts from $300/mo
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
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- ✦Multi-engine support (Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu)
- ✦Real-time structured SERP data
- ✦Pay-per-successful-request pricing
- ✦Full JavaScript support
- ✦Precise geo-location targeting
- ✦Structured data delivery in JSON or HTML
- ✦Open hybrid data lakehouse
- ✦Connects data across clouds and on-prem
- ✦Governance, lineage and access controls
- ✦Business-context enrichment
- ✦AI-ready data for analytics and models
Use cases
- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
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- →Organic keyword tracking
- →Brand protection
- →Price comparison
- →Market research
- →Detect copyright infringements
- →Ad intelligence
- →Unifying fragmented enterprise data
- →Governing data for AI workloads
- →Moving AI pilots to production
- →Powering analytics with trusted data
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