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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. Apify publishes a starting price ($29); Kadoa does not. Only Apify has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

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$29 month—
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyApify Technologies s.r.o.Kadoa
Launched20152023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 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

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