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Apify vs ScrapeGraphAI

A side-by-side comparison of Apify and ScrapeGraphAI, two Data Ops tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

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Apify

Data Ops

Full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform for AI data.

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ScrapeGraphAI

Data Ops

Turn any webpage into structured data with one prompt-driven API call.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Apify and ScrapeGraphAI
AttributeApifyScrapeGraphAI
CategoryData OpsData Ops
PricingFREEMIUMFREEMIUM
License (differs)ProprietaryOpen core
Deployment (differs)CloudHybrid
Platforms (differs)Web, APIAPI, CLI, Web
Model support (differs)Model-agnosticBYO key / model
Vendor (differs)ApifyScrapeGraphAI
Capabilities (differs)
  • Web scraping
  • Browser automation
  • Trigger-action automation
  • Web scraping
  • MCP server
  • Structured extraction
  • Web research agent

The honest brief

Apify

A marketplace of thousands of ready-made serverless scraping 'Actors' you can run or fork, versus building every crawler from scratch.

  • Serverless 'Actors' scale automatically
  • Outputs clean Markdown/JSON for LLMs
  • Maintains open-source Crawlee
  • LangChain/LlamaIndex integrations
  • Usage-based costs add up at scale
  • Learning curve for custom Actors
  • Platform itself is closed/hosted
  • Scraping reliability varies by site

ScrapeGraphAI

Swaps CSS selectors for LLM graph pipelines — describe the data in plain English and run it on any provider or local Ollama.

  • Prompt-driven, selector-free extraction
  • Graph pipelines: single, multi, crawl
  • Runs on any LLM or local Ollama
  • LangChain/LlamaIndex/n8n + MCP
  • LLM cost per extraction page
  • Less precise than handwritten selectors
  • Hosted API credits add up

When to pick which

Both cover Web scraping.

Pick Apify if you need Browser automation and Trigger-action automation.

  • Browser automation (primary capability)
  • Trigger-action automation (secondary capability)

Pick ScrapeGraphAI if you need MCP server, Structured extraction, and Web research agent.

  • MCP server (secondary capability)
  • Structured extraction (primary capability)
  • Web research agent (secondary capability)

They also differ on:

License
Proprietary · Open core
Deployment
Cloud · Hybrid
Platforms
Web, API · API, CLI, Web
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