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Apify

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

shipped May 26, 2026analyzefreemium
Domain rating80Monthly visits400K/mo
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Stork Quadrant

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

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