The 6 Best Apify Alternatives in 2026 (Web Scraping & Data Extraction)
Dušan Jovović
Founder of Tolodora. I hunt for smaller, lesser-known tools that punch above their weight — and I only recommend the ones I'd actually use.
Apify offers a platform for web scraping and automation with ready-made actors, but depending on whether you want enterprise proxies, no-code extraction, or LLM-ready data, another tool may fit. Here are six Apify alternatives I'd consider in 2026.
Bright Data
- Pricing
- 7.0/10
- Functionality
- 9.4/10
- Ease of use
- 7.8/10
- Support
- 8.4/10
What I like
Enterprise-grade proxies and web data at massive scale and reliability.
Best for
Enterprise proxies + data.
Bright Data offers proxies, scrapers and web datasets at enterprise scale. The pick for large, reliable data operations.
Octoparse
- Pricing
- 8.2/10
- Functionality
- 8.6/10
- Ease of use
- 8.8/10
- Support
- 8.0/10
What I like
Visual, no-code scraping that anyone can use to extract web data.
Best for
No-code visual scraping.
Octoparse is a no-code, point-and-click web scraping tool. The pick for non-developers extracting data.
Browse AI
- Pricing
- 8.4/10
- Functionality
- 8.6/10
- Ease of use
- 9.0/10
- Support
- 8.2/10
What I like
Train a scraper by clicking, then monitor sites for changes — no code.
Best for
No-code monitoring + scraping.
Browse AI lets you record scrapers and monitor websites for changes without code. Great for ongoing data extraction.
ScraperAPI
- Pricing
- 8.6/10
- Functionality
- 8.8/10
- Ease of use
- 8.4/10
- Support
- 8.2/10
What I like
A simple API that handles proxies and rendering so you just get the data.
Best for
A simple scraping API.
ScraperAPI handles proxies, browsers and CAPTCHAs behind a simple API. The pick for developers who want data without the plumbing.
Phantombuster
- Pricing
- 8.0/10
- Functionality
- 8.8/10
- Ease of use
- 8.4/10
- Support
- 8.0/10
What I like
Ready-made automations to scrape and act on social and web data.
Best for
No-code automation + scraping.
Phantombuster offers no-code 'phantoms' to scrape and automate across sites and social. Great for growth and lead workflows.
Firecrawl
- Pricing
- 8.8/10
- Functionality
- 9.0/10
- Ease of use
- 8.4/10
- Support
- 8.0/10
What I like
Crawls sites and returns clean, LLM-ready data — perfect for AI projects.
Best for
LLM-ready crawling.
Firecrawl crawls and converts websites into clean, structured data for LLMs. The pick for AI and RAG pipelines.
Want enterprise proxies and data at scale? Bright Data. No-code visual scraping? Octoparse or Browse AI. A simple scraping API? ScraperAPI. No-code automation + scraping? Phantombuster. LLM-ready crawling? Firecrawl. Pick by no-code versus API versus AI.
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