The Reliable Alternative to Apify
Apify's marketplace has 21,000+ community scrapers of varying quality. Scrapewise gives you consistent, reliable data extraction with no coding and predictable costs.
Apify vs Scrapewise
Why Teams Look Beyond Apify
Unpredictable Pricing
Compute Units plus per-result fees from marketplace actors make costs impossible to forecast. Teams report scrapers exceeding limits and consuming unexpected resources.
Inconsistent Actor Quality
Community-maintained actors break when platforms update. Quality varies wildly between authors. The TikTok scraper that worked last week may throw errors this week.
Custom Work Needs Developers
Pre-built actors cover common sites, but any custom extraction requires JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python development with the Apify SDK.
Reliable Data, Every Time
Apify's marketplace is powerful for developers. Scrapewise gives the same extraction capabilities with guaranteed consistency, no marketplace dependency, and no coding.
- ✕ Actor quality varies by community author
- ✕ CU billing + per-result fees = unpredictable costs
- ✕ Custom actors require JS/TS/Python
- ✕ Actors break when target sites update
- ✕ Platform lock-in with Actor ecosystem
- ✓ Consistent quality, platform-maintained scrapers
- ✓ Flat monthly pricing, always predictable
- ✓ Visual builder for any custom extraction
- ✓ Self-adjusting scrapers reduce maintenance
- ✓ Export anywhere: CSV, API, integrations
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
Skip the Marketplace, Build What You Need
Scrapewise replaces Apify's actor marketplace with a visual builder that lets you create reliable, custom scrapers without writing a single line of code.
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.