What Apify does well
Apify built the category-defining actor marketplace. Thousands of community and official actors, a mature and battle-tested platform, flexible compute, and a large ecosystem of integrations make it genuinely hard to match on raw breadth. If you want the widest possible library of ready-made and customizable scrapers — including long-tail and niche targets — Apify is a powerful, proven choice.
Where Ollagraph goes further
- One predictable bill, not a metered stack. Apify bills across a platform plan, compute units, proxy usage, and often per-result charges. Ollagraph is flat credits — 1 per call, pay-as-you-go from $5, failed calls auto-refunded. For mixed workloads that would otherwise span several actors, the consolidated bill is often well under half the stacked cost.
- A curated, in-house catalog. Every Ollagraph actor is maintained by us to one quality and schema bar, so reliability and response shape stay consistent across the catalog rather than varying by community author.
- A built-in intelligence layer. DNS, WHOIS, SSL, GeoIP/ASN, tech-stack, contacts, and email verification ship in the same API. Apify centers on scraping and automation, so this is typically a second vendor.
- One key across everything. Scrape, crawl, structured extraction, browser automation, intelligence, and an MCP server all draw from the same credits and the same token.
Side by side
| Feature | Apify | Ollagraph |
|---|---|---|
| Ready-made actor / extractor library | Marketplace (community + official) | Curated in-house catalog |
| Clean markdown output for LLMs | Varies by actor | Native |
| Domain intelligence (DNS / WHOIS / SSL) | Not offered | Included |
| Browser automation + sessions | Yes | Included |
| MCP server for AI agents | Yes | Included |
| Pricing model | Platform + compute + proxy + per-result | Flat credits · 1/call · PAYG from $5 · refund on failure |
| Free to start | Free tier | 1,000 credits |
Who each is best for
Choose Apify if: Teams that want the broadest possible library of ready-made and community-built actors — including long-tail and highly customized targets — and are comfortable managing actor selection and metered platform billing.
Choose Ollagraph if: Teams that want a consistently-maintained catalog plus scrape, intelligence, and automation behind one predictable bill — often a fraction of the cost of stitching actors, platform, and proxy together — with failed calls refunded.
Sources & further reading
The standards behind every tool in this comparison, for readers who want the primary sources rather than our summary of them:
- Web scraping (Wikipedia) — the category these tools operate in, with its technical and legal background.
- RFC 9309 — Robots Exclusion Protocol (IETF, 2022) — the robots.txt standard a responsible crawler honors.
- JSON-LD 1.1 (W3C Recommendation) — the structured-data format these tools extract.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Lewis et al., 2020) — the AI pattern most of this web data ultimately feeds.