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Apify vs Scavio AI

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 starts at $29, Scavio AI at $0.01. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

ApifyMarketplace and cloud platform of ready-made scrapers ('Actors') plus infrastructure to run your ownScavio AIUnified scraping API that returns structured data from social, search, and shopping sites.

Side by side

FactApifyScavio AI
CategoryWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionWeb Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$29 month$0.01 credit
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyApify Technologies s.r.o.Scavio
Launched2015—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 1, 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

Scavio AI

Scavio's pitch is one API key instead of thirty separate scrapers, which matters most for teams already juggling multiple site integrations for agent or research pipelines. Coverage is broad rather than deep — worth checking that your specific site and data fields are actually supported before committing.

Pros

  • One API key covers roughly thirty platforms
  • JSON output designed for LLM/agent consumption, not raw HTML
  • Native integrations for LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, and MCP
  • 50 free credits with no card required to start

Cons

  • Pay-as-you-go credits can get expensive at high volume
  • Real-time scraping of third-party sites can break when those sites change layout

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 Scavio AI if you need

  • Developers building agents that need live web data
  • Teams replacing several single-site scrapers with one API
  • LangChain/CrewAI/n8n users wanting a drop-in data node

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