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Apify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
👁 4.4M/mo♥ 2.0K
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OpenClaw
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source self-hosted assistant with system access via chat apps; real project.
👁 7.7M/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
Free Plan: $0 one-time
Hobby: $16/month
Standard: $83/month
Growth: $333/month
Auto Recharge Credits: $11/mo for 1000 credits
Credit Pack: $9/mo for 1000 credits
Enterprise Plan: Contact for Pricing
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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
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Web crawling
- ✦Data extraction in Markdown, JSON, and screenshot formats
- ✦Dynamic content handling
- ✦Rotating proxies
- ✦Rate limits management
- ✦Open-source availability
- ✦Media Parsing
- ✦Open-source and Self-Hosted (Infrastructure you control)
- ✦Full System Access (Read/write files, run shell commands, execute scripts)
- ✦Persistent Memory (Remembers context, preferences, and persona 24/7)
- ✦Cross-Platform Chat Integration (Works on WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, etc.)
- ✦Proactive AF (Cron jobs, reminders, background tasks)
- ✦Browser Control (Browse the web, fill forms, extract data)
- ✦AI-powered code autocompletion
- ✦Context-aware code referencing and chat
- ✦Natural language code editing
- ✦Customizable AI code assistants
Use cases
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- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Powering AI assistants with real-time web content
- →Enhancing sales data with web information
- →Adding scraping capabilities to code editors
- →Enabling customers to build AI apps with web data
- →Extracting comprehensive information for in-depth research
- →Automating code tasks (running tests, capturing errors, opening PRs, managing Claude Code sessions).
- →Managing professional life (clearing inboxes, sending emails, managing calendars, doing taxes, content pipelines).
- →Smart home control (discovering and confirming controls for devices like air purifiers).
- →Building custom tools and skills (building a flight querying CLI, automating Todoist, creating custom meditations).
- →Handling personal admin (submitting health reimbursements, finding doctor appointments, fighting insurance companies).
- →Accelerate development with AI-powered autocompletion.
- →Improve code understanding with context-aware chat.
- →Refactor code using natural language instructions.
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