Apify vs Firecrawl
Apify is listed under Web scraping APIs, Firecrawl under Web scraping APIs. Shared focus: scraping. Each name links to the product's own site.
| Category | Web scraping APIs | Web scraping APIs |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Public code | No | Yes |
| Tags | scraping, automation, actors, proxies | scraping, llm, markdown, api |
| Website | apify.com | firecrawl.dev |
What Apify does
Apify is a platform for web scraping and browser automation. It hosts ready-made scrapers called Actors in a store, runs custom code in the cloud and provides proxies, storage and an API.
What Firecrawl does
Firecrawl turns websites into clean markdown or structured data for LLMs. It offers scrape, crawl, map and search endpoints through an API and is available as an open-source project.
Other options
See all Web scraping APIs, or alternatives to Apify and Firecrawl.