Apify alternatives: Scrapezy as an alternative to Apify

Ready-made Actors or your own schema

Apify's store lists Actors built for specific websites and tasks. When one exists for your target, you configure its inputs and receive its dataset, so the output fields are decided by the Actor's author.

Scrapezy starts from the fields you need. You create a schema such as company name, location and job title, or pick one of the starter templates, then run it on any URL list, sitemap or crawl. This suits targets with no dedicated Actor and projects where every source must return the same columns.

Custom scrapers without writing an Actor

Building a custom Apify Actor gives full control, but it is a software project: you write, deploy and maintain the code that navigates and parses each site.

With Scrapezy, AI-assisted extraction reads each page against your schema, so a new source usually means adding URLs rather than writing parsing code. Test unusual layouts, pagination and missing values on a sample before relying on it.

Comparing cost models

Apify combines plan credits, platform usage and, for some Actors, Actor-specific charges. Total cost depends on which Actors you run and how long they run.

Scrapezy charges tokens, which scale with page size and output. One-time packs start at $29 for 400,000 tokens, and the token calculator helps you estimate a batch. Run the same URLs through both and compare the cost of usable records.

Moving an Apify workflow to Scrapezy

Export a recent Apify dataset as your baseline, then recreate its fields and types in a Scrapezy schema. Run 20 to 50 representative URLs and compare completeness and accuracy field by field.

Point the output at JSON, CSV or Google Sheets, or call the API from your own code. Keep the Apify run active until Scrapezy's records pass your checks, then schedule the Scrapezy scraper to take over.

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