Apify
Actor platform for scraping and agents, with Crawlee as the open-source core
Overall in browser apis
11of 14 · score 65.6
Data coverage
88%
23 of 26 fields sourced
Best for
- •Scheduled crawls that need storage, queues and monitoring
- •Reusing an existing Actor instead of writing a scraper
- •Teams standardising on Crawlee
Strong on
- +GitHub stars 17,000 3/10
Weak on
- −CDP endpoint No 13/14Better: Browserbase: Yes
- −Session replay No 11/14Better: Browserbase: Yes
- −Max concurrency 5 sessions 13/13Better: Browserbase: 250 sessions
- −Human handoff No 9/14Better: Browserless: Yes
vs Bright Data Browser API
- •Ahead on Agent API: Partial vs No
- •Ahead on Open-source core: Partial vs No
- •Behind on CDP endpoint: No vs Yes
- •Behind on Max concurrency: 5 sessions vs Unlimited
How Apify scores among 14 browser apis23 of 26 fields known
Reliability & anti-bot5
Anti-bot pass rate
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CAPTCHA solving
Partial
9/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Cold start
—
Features10
CDP endpoint
No
13/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Session persistence
Partial
9/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Live view1st
Yes
1/14
Session replay
No
11/14
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
File downloads1st
Yes
1/14
Chrome extensions
Partial
8/12
Leader: Browserbase · Yes
Browser regions
us-east, eu-central
5/12
Leader: Hyperbrowser · us-central, us-east, us-west, europe-west, asia-south
Agentic3
Agent API
Partial
4/14
Leader: Hyperbrowser · Yes
Human handoff
No
9/14
Leader: Browserless · Yes
Pricing3
Pricing model
per-credit
10/14
Leader: Browserbase · per-hour
Per browser-hour
—
Traction3
GitHub stars3rd
17,000
3/10
Leader: Browser Use · 120,216
Funding stage
series-a
7/14
Leader: Cloudflare Browser Rendering · public
Open-source core
Partial
5/14
Leader: Browserless · Yes
Positioning2
Positioning
Cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation Actors
Launched
2015
14/14
Leader: Browserbase · 2024
Airtop
Anchor Browser
Bright Data Browser API
Browser Use
Browserbase
Browserless
Cloudflare Browser Rendering
