Tools and APIs that collect web data and turn pages into structured output for applications and AI pipelines. Listings record credit and concurrency limits, free plans and how usage is billed.
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Cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation built around Actors, which are programs that run on Apify's infrastructure and save structured results. Includes a store of ready-made Actors, proxies and an MCP server.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 17 per month, billed annually
API for searching the web, scraping pages and crawling sites, returning clean Markdown or structured data for AI applications. Offers SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server; plans are credit-based.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 16 per month, billed annually
To evaluate a software free plan, first decide whether it is a permanent plan, a time-limited trial or a credit grant; then convert its caps into your expected usage, check seat limits, find out what happens when you exceed a limit, review history retention and export, read the terms of use, map security features to tiers and price the first paid tier. This guide applies those steps to free plans recorded from official pages on 24 October 2026, including Firecrawl, Apify, Zapier, Supabase, Vercel, Notion, GitHub Copilot and Cursor.
Apify and Firecrawl both collect web data, but they suit different jobs. Apify is a platform for running scrapers ("Actors") in the cloud; Firecrawl is an API that returns page content as Markdown or structured data. This comparison uses each vendor's official documentation and pricing pages, last checked on 24 October 2026; it is research-based and not the result of hands-on testing.