Apify vs. Olostep Comparison


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About Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform helping anyone get value from the web. At its core is Apify Store, a marketplace with over 10,000 Actors where developers build, publish, and monetize automation tools. Actors are serverless cloud programs that extract data, automate web tasks, and run AI agents. Developers build them using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee, Apify's open-source library. Build once, publish to Store, and earn when others use it. Thousands of developers do this - Apify handles infrastructure, billing, and monthly payouts. Apify Store has ready-made Actors for scraping Amazon, Google Maps, social media, tracking prices, lead-gen, and more. Actors handle proxies, CAPTCHAs, JavaScript rendering, headless browsers, and scaling. Everything runs on Apify's cloud with 99.95% uptime. SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Integrate with Zapier, Make, n8n, and LangChain. Apify's MCP server lets AI like Claude dynamically discover and use Actors		About Olostep is a web-data API platform built for AI and developer use, enabling fast, reliable extraction of clean, structured data from public websites. It supports scraping single URLs, crawling an entire site’s pages (even without a sitemap), and submitting batches of up to ~100,000 URLs for large-scale retrieval; responses can include HTML, Markdown, PDF, or JSON, and custom parsers let users pull exactly the schema they need. Features include full JavaScript rendering, use of premium residential IPs/proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling, and built-in mechanisms for handling rate limits or failed requests. It also offers PDF/DOCX parsing and browser-automation capabilities like click, scroll, wait, etc. Olostep handles scale (millions of requests/day), aims to be cost-effective (claiming up to ~90% cheaper than existing solutions), and provides free trial credits so teams can test its APIs first.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported		Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Companies searching for a web scraping and automation solutions		Audience Developers, AI teams and startups in need of a tool to scrape, crawl, or extract structured data from the web at scale
Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported		API Offers API Supported
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Pricing $29 per month Free, Starter, Scale, Business, and Enterprise plans. Free Version Supported Free Trial Supported		Pricing $9 per month Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
		Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros I needed a scalable solution to gather data from 30M webpages and pdfs and I was able to complete my run with Olostep batch endpoint in a few days Cons It took me a few hours to get set up with the batch endpoint
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported		Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Apify Technologies s.r.o. Founded: 2015 Czech Republic www.apify.com		Company Information Olostep Founded: 2025 United States www.olostep.com
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Categories AI Web Scrapers Supported API Monetization Supported Browser Automation Supported Data Extraction Supported Proxy Servers Supported Residential Proxies Supported Web Scraping Supported Web Scraping APIs Supported Web Search APIs Supported		Categories AI Web Scrapers Supported Browser Automation Supported Unstructured Data Analysis Supported
Show More Features Data Extraction Features Disparate Data Collection Supported Document Extraction Supported Email Address Extraction Supported Image Extraction Supported IP Address Extraction Supported Phone Number Extraction Supported Pricing Extraction Supported Web Data Extraction Supported
Integrations Amazon Supported Google Maps Supported Instagram Supported Airbyte Supported Amazon Bedrock Supported Apigene Supported Asana Supported Bing Not Supported Elmo Not Supported Facebook Supported Gemini Not Supported Google Cloud Platform Not Supported Google Sheets Supported Hevo Supported JavaScript Not Supported LangChain Supported Make Supported OpenAI Agents SDK Supported Pinecone Supported Softr Supported Show More Integrations View All 50 Integrations		Integrations Amazon Supported Google Maps Supported Instagram Supported Airbyte Not Supported Amazon Bedrock Not Supported Apigene Not Supported Asana Not Supported Bing Supported Elmo Supported Facebook Not Supported Gemini Supported Google Cloud Platform Supported Google Sheets Not Supported Hevo Not Supported JavaScript Supported LangChain Not Supported Make Not Supported OpenAI Agents SDK Not Supported Pinecone Not Supported Softr Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations
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