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Apify

Web scraping and browser automation platform. OpenAPI plus MCP server.

shipped 26 may 2026analyzefreemium

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Becomes the API· 52/100

Replaceable as a UI, but kept alive as the API the agents call.

“Apify's core scraping logic is increasingly writable by an LLM in minutes. What survives is the Actor marketplace — a network of pre-built scrapers with real usage and ratings — plus the managed infrastructure that handles proxies, anti-bot evasion, and scheduling at scale. The MCP server angle is smart: agents need to call scraping as a service, not write it themselves. That coordination layer has legs.”
— Claude Sonnet 4.6, scored 2026-05-27

Defensibility · 33/100

Physical-world coupling
Regulatory moat
Network liquidity
Proprietary refreshing data
High-trust catastrophic workflows
Multi-party coordination
Brand / community / taste

An LLM alone could replace

Write a web scraper script for a specific site
Generate browser automation code using Playwright or Puppeteer
Parse and extract structured data from HTML
Explain how to schedule and run a scraping job

Agent-Readiness · 75/100

Verified MCP— Stork MCP listing: apify-mcp (confirmed)
Listed on agent surfaces— anthropic_directory, cursor + Stork:apify-mcp
Usage-based pricing— pricing page heuristic match: https://apify.com/pricing
Headless agent auth
Public OpenAPI— https://docs.apify.com/api/openapi.json
Active changelog
llms.txt— https://apify.com/llms.txt

Score history · +35 pts over 3 re-scores

How to defend

Double down on the Actor marketplace as a two-sided network — more contributors, more buyers, liquidity that's hard to clone. Become the scraping API that agents call natively, not a UI humans use to configure jobs.

Expose API-key auth with a self-serve sandbox tier; remove sales-call gates (+15).
Publish a public changelog and ship in the last 90 days — silence reads as abandonment (+10).

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