Apify vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)
Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms. Here is how they differ, when to choose which, and where ScrapeField fits.
| Apify | ScrapeCreators | ScrapeField | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties | A social-media API for about 38 platforms | An API for five platforms, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X |
| What it covers | Almost any site, an Actor for each | About 38 platforms, from YouTube to Telegram, five ad libraries and transcripts; not Google Maps | Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X: 45 endpoints |
| How you use it | Start an Actor’s run, wait for it, and read its dataset, from the console or the API | An API, an MCP server and a CLI | From code, an agent or the MCP server: one GET returns the answer |
| How it bills | Compute units or a price per result, set by each Actor; from $19 a month after the free plan | Credits, most calls one: $1.88 per 1,000 on its $47 pack, $0.99 on its $497 pack | Credits per call, in packs from $39; they never expire |
| Free to try | $5 of usage a month on the free plan | The first 100 credits, no card | 2,000 credits once, and a demo with no account at all |
| Needs your login | Each Actor’s author decides: the big LinkedIn Actors need none, a few ask for your cookies | No | Never: no login, cookie or session of yours, for any reason |
| What you get back | Each Actor’s own shape: two Google Maps Actors, two schemas | Each platform’s own JSON, shown by example; no response schema | One documented schema per platform, named after its official API |
Checked 3 October 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page. Rechecked quarterly — tell us if something here is out of date and we will fix it.
Which to choose
Choose Apify if you need a site nobody else covers, an Actor someone has already written, or schedules and storage on one platform.
Choose ScrapeCreators if you need a platform beyond Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X, such as YouTube, Reddit or Threads, or the lowest price per social profile.
Is ScrapeField better?
Only for one job. Choose ScrapeField if you need Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok or X data in your code, at a price per call you can multiply, without lending us an account. For anything else, choose Apify or ScrapeCreators as above.
Each has a full comparison with us, including where it wins: ScrapeField vs Apify and ScrapeField vs ScrapeCreators.
Try it before you decide
Every endpoint has a playground that runs against the live API with no key and no account. If the response shape does not fit your code, you will know in about a minute.