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Best Apify alternatives (2026)
8 alternatives to Apify in web scraping api, ranked by entry price. Apify starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Bright Data, Oxylabs, Scrapfly, SerpApi.
- Closest by price: Bright Data ($0/mo), Oxylabs ($0/mo), Scrapfly ($0/mo).
Apify alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright Data | $0/mo | Yes | — | Enterprise-scale data collection across 195+ countries | brightdata.com |
| 2 | Oxylabs STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | No | — | Enterprise teams needing ISO 27001-certified infrastructure | oxylabs.io |
| 3 | Scrapfly | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Compliance-sensitive teams needing HIPAA/SOC2/ISO27001 | scrapfly.io |
| 4 | SerpApi | $0/mo | Yes | — | SEO teams needing structured SERP data across multiple search engines | serpapi.com |
| 5 | ScrapingAnt | $19/mo | No | — | Budget-conscious teams needing proxy-backed scraping from $19/month | scrapingant.com |
| 6 | ScrapingBee | $19/mo | No | — | Teams with SOC 2 compliance requirements | scrapingbee.com |
| 7 | ScraperAPI STALE · 2026-09-03 | $49/mo | No | — | E-commerce price monitoring at scale | scraperapi.com |
| 8 | Zyte STALE · 2026-09-03 | $100/mo | No | — | Python/Scrapy developers needing cloud spider hosting | zyte.com |
Data current through 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 3 of 8 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Web Scraping API index.