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Apify alternatives

The first 12 comparable products for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate. Sorted by the published bill and amount, never by who pays us; the full category route includes every relevant product.

Not comparable12 substitutions priced0 cheaper than ApifyLatest recorded source date 2026-07-26

The datum line

Not comparable hereWhat the rechecked Apify price gives for this job. Older prices do not produce comparative deltas.

The substitution

Pages per month100,000
JavaScript renderingrequired
Assumed success rate95%
Alternatives without a total0

Apify has no exact bill for this workload, so the deltas below are absent rather than estimated. Each alternative still carries its own published figure and state.

Priced alternatives

HasData$99.00cheapest way to buy that: Business, 1,000,000 included = $99.00 per monthOlostep$99.00100,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 50% of what you buyScrape.do$99.00750,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 60% of what you buyScrapeOwl$99.00473,684 of the included allowance goes unused, 47% of what you buyWebScraping.AI$99.00500,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 50% of what you buyBrowserCloud$19.0014,737 of the included allowance goes unused, 12% of what you buyScrappa$50.00 prepaid80,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 44% of what you buyScrapingBot$99.00573,684 of the included allowance goes unused, 52% of what you buyScraping Robot$180.00cheapest way to buy that: Business pay-as-you-go, pay as you go at $0.0018 per unit = $180.00 per monthBrowsable$249.0019,737 of the included allowance goes unused, 16% of what you buyScrapingAnt$249.002,000,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 67% of what you buyDecodo Web Scraping API$49.00Older price; excluded from rankings. 63,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 39% of what you buy

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Apify is compute-priced, while many alternatives are request-priced. The page does not invent a conversion between those units. It prices the standard page job only where the dataset and engine can support it, then keeps non-comparable products visible outside the ranking.

Each alternative carries a sourced reason to switch. Unknown cost is not treated as free or cheap.

The condition that decides it

The deciding variable is whether the job is a page request or an Actor run. Apify can charge compute, storage, transfer, proxy traffic, and Actor-specific events, and failed runs or retries can still consume those resources. Bright Data Web Unlocker instead records one successful standard-page request with JavaScript rendering, residential routing, CAPTCHA handling, and proxy rotation included. If runtime, memory, storage, or Actor events materially vary by run, a request table cannot settle the choice. If the output is just a delivered standard page, a success-only request meter is directly governable. (Apify pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26; Apify usage and resources, retrieved 2026-07-26; Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

Who should stay with Apify

Stay when the workload is genuinely a reusable Actor rather than a uniform fetch endpoint, especially when compute size, storage, data transfer, proxy traffic, or event-priced Actors belong in the same platform. Apify also publishes plan limits for concurrent runs and Actor memory, so a team that already measures those resources can govern the actual workload without inventing a page conversion. (Apify pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26; Apify usage and resources, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

What the alternatives do not replace

A successful-page API does not replace Actor code, resource selection, platform storage, transfer, proxy use, or an Actor-specific event contract. Conversely, the alternatives table does not price those Apify resources, so it cannot show the cost of recreating the workflow elsewhere. Bright Data Web Unlocker is a narrower standard-page service with success-only billing, while Apify remains the broader compute platform. Compare the complete run receipt and the migration scope, not the page row by itself. (Apify pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26; Bright Data Web Unlocker features, retrieved 2026-07-26.)