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Apify vs Kadoa

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan
Apify has one; Kadoa prices on request
Public API
Both have one
Higher Trust score
Apify — 94 vs 87 for Kadoa
Best fit
Apify: Teams that would rather rent a maintained scraper than babysit their own · Kadoa: Hedge funds and quant teams tracking alternative data from many changing sources
Status
Both up at our last check (Oct 16, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

ApifyMarketplace and cloud platform of ready-made scrapers ('Actors') plus infrastructure to run your ownKadoaAgent-built web scrapers that self-heal and feed finance data warehouses

Side by side

FactApifyKadoa
CategoryWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionWeb Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing modelFreemiumContact
Starts at$19/mo—
Public APIYesYes
Trust score94 / 10087 / 100
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyApify Technologies s.r.o.Kadoa
Launched20152023
Last verifiedOct 16, 2026Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

Apify

The Actor marketplace is the draw: for most popular sites someone has already built and maintains the scraper, and agent-facing interfaces (API, MCP) are first-class. Costs need watching, since compute units plus per-Actor fees stack on top of the subscription and are hard to predict before you run at volume.

Pros

  • Huge catalog of maintained scrapers for common targets
  • Real free tier with $5 of usage and no card required
  • SDKs, CLI, proxies and scheduling in one platform
  • Published discounts for startups, universities and nonprofits

Cons

  • Two-layer pricing (subscription plus usage plus Actor fees) complicates forecasting
  • Marketplace Actor quality varies by author
  • Large-scale scraping raises site-terms and legal questions the platform leaves to you

Kadoa

Buy it if broken scrapers are costing an investment team real money and self-healing plus audit trails justify enterprise pricing. Solo developers and growth marketers should use Firecrawl or Apify, because Kadoa has repositioned away from them.

Pros

  • Self-healing workflows address the actual failure mode of scraping, which is source drift
  • Native delivery to S3, Snowflake and BigQuery instead of CSV downloads
  • SOC 2 certification and MCP support signal serious enterprise readiness

Cons

  • No published pricing at any tier, so evaluation means a sales call
  • The finance-first repositioning narrows fit for ecommerce or marketing scraping
  • Consumption billing makes costs hard to forecast on volatile sources

Which one fits

Choose Apify if you need

  • Teams that would rather rent a maintained scraper than babysit their own
  • AI builders feeding agents live web data through the API or MCP server
  • Developers monetizing crawlers without running infrastructure

Choose Kadoa if you need

  • Hedge funds and quant teams tracking alternative data from many changing sources
  • Analysts who need a dataset without asking engineering for a scraper
  • Compliance-sensitive pipelines where each field must trace back to a source

Apify vs Kadoa: the questions people ask

Is Apify cheaper than Kadoa?

Apify starts at $19/mo; Kadoa prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Does Apify or Kadoa have a free tier?

Apify has a free tier; Kadoa prices on request.

Which has a public API, Apify or Kadoa?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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