Automation and integrations
Apify alternatives
3 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
apify/crawleethe vendor’s own source★25,197 GitHub starsApache-2.0 licenceCrawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with PupOpen on GitHub ↗firecrawl/firecrawl★162,487 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceProvides a scalable API for searching, scraping, and interacting with websites.Open on GitHub ↗getmaxun/maxun★17,062 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceNo-code platform converting websites into structured APIs for scraping, crawling, and data extraction.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Large marketplace of pre-built Actors and rented Actor listings
- Managed auto-scaling infrastructure for concurrent runs
- Built-in proxy network and integrated proxy pricing
- Billing, marketplace payouts, and storefront distribution
- Enterprise compliance attestation and SLAs
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Apify, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.