Pick Apify if
teams who will burn the Free $5 prepaid usage on a Store Actor or a Crawlee job, then buy Starter at $19/month ($17 billed annually) when they need chat support and 32 concurrent runs.
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Our take
Pick Apify if teams who will burn the Free $5 prepaid usage on a Store Actor or a Crawlee job, then buy Starter at $19/month ($17 billed annually) when they need chat support and 32 concurrent runs. Pick Scrapfly if scraper teams who will burn the Free 1,000 credits at $0 while they open a first Monitoring list, then Discovery at $30/month (200,000 credits) when the quota caps, or Pro at $100 when they need
Best for
Apify Scrapes, browsers, and published Actors metered in prepaid usage
Scrapfly A scrape you inspect at a public $
Free plan
Apify $0 · $5 prepaid usage / month. No card. $0.2/CU. 16 GB max RAM. 5 concurrent runs. Community support. No Store discount. When prepaid is gone, the account blocks until next cycle
Scrapfly $0 · 1,000 API credits on signup. No card. 5 concurrency. Quota cap (no extras)
Lowest paid
Apify Creator $1/mo
Scrapfly Custom $1/mo
Next step up
Apify Proxy (list) $8
Scrapfly Discovery $30/mo
Runs where
Apify Hosted
Scrapfly Hosted
Watch out
Apify Free blocks when the $5 is gone
Scrapfly Free and Discovery hard-cap at quota
Last checked
Apify 2026-10-22 · apify.com/pricing
Scrapfly 2026-10-23 · scrapfly.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Scrapfly if
scraper teams who will burn the Free 1,000 credits at $0 while they open a first Monitoring list, then Discovery at $30/month (200,000 credits) when the quota caps, or Pro at $100 when they need pay-as-you-go overflow.
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