Apify Is for Developers. ScrapeWise Is for Your Team.
Apify is a developer-first platform — 21,000+ community actors, Compute Unit billing, and an active pivot toward AI agents and MCP integrations. If your team isn't writing JavaScript or TypeScript, Apify is never going to feel like a fit.
Apify vs ScrapeWise
Why Teams Leave Apify
Costs You Can't Predict
Compute Units plus per-result fees from marketplace actors make your monthly bill a guessing game. Credits expire monthly, and users report billing disputes that are poorly handled.
Actors Break Without Warning
Community-maintained actors break when target sites update their layout. Quality varies wildly between authors. The scraper that worked last week may throw errors today.
Custom Work Needs Developers
Pre-built actors cover common sites, but anything custom requires JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python development with the Apify SDK. No option for business users.
A Developer Platform Going Deeper Into AI Agents
Apify is actively pivoting — MCP integrations, AI agents, Crawlee — it's building for the developer and AI engineer market. That's a legitimate direction. But it means non-technical teams are increasingly not the audience. ScrapeWise stays focused on no-code infrastructure for business users.
- ✕ Actor quality varies by community author
- ✕ CU + per-result fees = unpredictable monthly bills
- ✕ Credits expire if unused each month
- ✕ Actors break when target sites update
- ✕ Custom scrapers require JS/TS/Python
- ✓ Consistent quality, platform-maintained scrapers
- ✓ Flat monthly pricing, no overage charges
- ✓ Rows don't expire, no use-it-or-lose-it pressure
- ✓ Visual builder adapts to site changes
- ✓ No coding for any extraction task
Pricing Comparison
Apify
- - Free: $5/mo in credits (expire monthly)
- - Starter: $29-39/mo + usage overage
- - Scale: $199/mo for teams
- - Compute Units: $0.40 per CU overage
- - Many actors add per-result fees on top
- - Total cost hard to predict before running
Scrapewise
- ✓ Free Starter: 1,000 rows/mo, no credit card
- ✓ Basic: €99/month for 25,000 rows
- ✓ Pro: €249/month for 150,000 rows
- ✓ Business: €499/month for 500,000 rows
- ✓ No per-result fees, no CU overage charges
- ✓ Full platform access on every plan
Know What You'll Pay Before You Start
No Compute Units, no per-result fees, no expiring credits. ScrapeWise replaces Apify's marketplace with a visual builder and pricing you can actually forecast.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions when comparing Apify and ScrapeWise.
Yes. ScrapeWise can extract data from any public website. Instead of finding and configuring a marketplace actor, you use the visual builder to target exactly the data you need.