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Best Web Scraping API · head-to-head

Scrapfly vs Apify

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for web scraping api. Scrapfly has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the vendor's own page and the date we captured it.

Scrapfly has the lower entry price — Scrapfly starts at $0/mo, Apify at $0/mo. Free tier: Scrapfly Yes, Apify Yes. HIPAA: Scrapfly Yes, Apify —.

As of 2026-06-14 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

Scrapfly

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forCompliance-sensitive teams needing HIPAA/SOC2/ISO27001

Apify

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)—
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forDevelopers wanting a marketplace of pre-built scrapers

Sources — Scrapfly: scrapfly.io (verified 2026-06-14) · Apify: apify.com (verified 2026-06-14)

Key features

Scrapfly: HIPAA-compliant with BAA available (Custom plan); SOC 2 Type I & II, SOC 3, and ISO 27001 certified; Anti-bot bypass with 94–98% success rates across Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, Imperva, Kasada; Pay-only-for-success model (failed requests not billed); AI Browser Agent with stealth Chromium for autonomous agent loops

Apify: Actor marketplace with 3,000+ ready-made scrapers; Compute Unit billing model — pay per CPU/memory/time used; Scrapy Cloud-compatible cloud spider hosting; Dataset storage and key-value store built-in; Scheduled and event-triggered scraping runs

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