For developers and data teams who need web data without building scrapers from scratch, Apify is a marketplace of prebuilt scrapers and crawlers (Actors) plus a cloud platform to run, schedule, and scale your own.
Presence & Market Position
#2 of 103
GTM Developer Tools
▲ 19 60-day move
Measures earned, engagement-weighted share of voice across the GTM voices panel. Methodology →
Apify positions itself as infrastructure for the GTM stack: a marketplace of prebuilt web scrapers paired with a cloud platform to run and scale custom ones, sitting at the developer-tools layer where practitioners build their own workflows rather than buy a finished product. It ranks near the top of that category, and the record shows it climbing. Conversation about Apify is dense and practical: it turns up constantly in operators' stack breakdowns and workflow write-ups, named as the scraping layer alongside orchestration tools, CRMs, and outbound platforms, and increasingly paired with coding agents as a lower-cost substitute for traditional data providers. Coverage skews toward how-to and stack assembly rather than launch news or category debate.
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Business Profile
Apify was founded in 2015 by Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada, launched out of Y Combinator before the founders relocated the company to Prague. It has grown into a 116-person independent business that runs closer to product revenue than outside capital: total funding is roughly $3M, last raised in 2024 from J&T Ventures and Reflex Capital, against $13.3M in ARR reported the same year. Apify emphasizes scale in its own materials, citing tens of thousands of Actors in its marketplace and enterprise customers including Microsoft, Samsung, and T-Mobile, while framing continued growth around AI-agent-driven usage rather than only human developers.
Agent Readiness
Measures how easily your agents can build on it — API, MCP, CLI, SDK, docs depth. Methodology →
Apify ships a documented API, SDK, CLI, and an MCP server that lets agents discover, run, and retrieve results from its Actors directly, plus a payment-based entry point built for autonomous agents to transact without setting up an account. The build-out is now oriented around growing the agent-usable side of the marketplace: Apify is recruiting developers to build more agent-ready Actors, from API-fied websites to SaaS API wrappers and open-source MCP servers.
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