The 6 Best Apify Alternatives in 2026

Browserless is for teams that already wrote the Playwright script and just do not want to run the browser fleet. You point your existing code at their WebSocket endpoint and keep all of it. Billing is in 'units' of 30 seconds of browser time against a flat tier. Its BrowserQL query language is the newer, more scraping-shaped interface on top of the same infrastructure.

• Keep your existing Puppeteer/Playwright code
• Stealth and CAPTCHA solving included
• Session recording and debugging tools

Firecrawl became the default scraping layer for AI apps by solving the part that actually hurts: it renders JavaScript, rotates proxies, follows sitemaps and hands back clean markdown instead of raw HTML. Pricing is credit-based on top of a flat monthly tier — Hobby at $19 covers 5,000 credits. It is also open source under AGPL, so the whole thing can be self-hosted if you would rather run the proxies yourself.

• Markdown output is genuinely LLM-ready
• Open source and self-hostable (AGPL)
• Handles JS rendering and proxies for you

Oxylabs sits at the heavier end: a very large proxy pool, per-site parsers for the big commerce targets, and a scheduler for recurring jobs. You pay for results rather than requests, so blocked attempts are free. The Micro tier at $49 is the entry point; pay-as-you-go rates fall from $0.50 to $0.25 per 1,000 results as commitment rises.

• You only pay for successful results
• Very large residential proxy pool
• Prebuilt parsers for major commerce sites

Bright Data is the volume player — ready-made scrapers for hundreds of major sites, a very large proxy estate behind them, and pay-per-success billing at around $1.50 per 1,000 records on pay-as-you-go, falling to roughly $0.70 with commitment. The free tier gives 5,000 records a month. Subscription tiers exist at the top end (Scale is $499/month for 384,000 records) but the entry path is metered, which is how it is priced here.

• Pay only for records actually delivered
• Prebuilt scrapers for most major sites
• Enormous proxy network

ScrapingBee is the least ceremonious option in the category: one GET request with your target URL and it returns the rendered page, having dealt with the browser, the proxy and the anti-bot check. Pricing is straight API credits against a flat monthly tier, with JS rendering and premium proxies costing more credits per call. No open-source version, which is the trade for not operating anything.

• Simplest API in the category
• Proxy rotation and CAPTCHAs included
• Predictable credit pricing

Zyte built Scrapy, and Zyte API is the commercial answer to the part Scrapy never solved — getting past anti-bot systems. Its pricing is unusual and deliberately so: every request is priced by the resources it actually took, across five tiers for HTTP and five for browser requests, starting from $2 per 10,000 requests. There is no flat plan; you set a monthly spending limit instead, capped at $100 unless you commit to half of a higher limit up front.

• Only successful responses are billed
• Priced by actual resource use per request
• Made by the Scrapy team