Honest comparison · May 2026
Apify for developers,
Apify for developers,
Livescraper for everyone else.
Apify is a powerful actor marketplace — you write or buy scrapers and run them in their cloud. Livescraper is six pre-built scrapers wrapped in a no-code UI. Most teams want the second.
Apify
$49+ / month per plan
Personal plan · $49/mo + actor compute
- Marketplace of 1,500+ community actors
- Run any custom Node.js / Python actor
- Powerful scheduling + queue infra
- Strong dev community + docs
- Need to pick / configure / debug actors
- Most third-party actors aren't maintained
- Per-actor pricing is opaque (compute units)
- Steep learning curve for non-devs
- No unified UI for Maps + Reviews + SERP
- Free tier credits expire
Livescraper
$0.005 / row
Six built-in scrapers · no code, no actors
- No code · point-and-click scraper UI
- Six first-party scrapers, all maintained by us
- Predictable per-row pricing (not opaque CUs)
- Free tier never expires
- Same auth, same billing, same export — across all six
- Schedule weekly / monthly without YAML
- Built for marketers, not developers