{
 "title": "Crawl4AI Cloud vs Apify",
 "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/apify/",
 "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
 "crawl4ai_live_prices": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices",
 "rule": "Apify facts restate Apify's own pages; not_published means their pages say nothing, not that the feature is missing.",
 "short_answer": "Crawl4AI charges by the work each page needs ($0.10 per 1,000 plain pages, $0.50 with a real browser) and nothing for a failed or blocked call; Apify's Web Fetch costs $1.00 to $1.50 per 1,000 for any page, and each other tool sets its own price and failure rule. Google results with ads and AI overview cost $1.00 per 1,000 on Crawl4AI against $9.50 on Apify's Starter plan, and a LinkedIn profile costs 1 credit on a Crawl4AI recipe against $4.00 to $10.00 per 1,000 on third-party Apify tools. Crawl4AI's extra credits never expire and a first payment is refundable within 14 days; Apify's prepaid usage expires every month and its fees are non-refundable. Crawl4AI runs in the EU, Singapore and the US with teams and an audit log from the $99 Builder plan; Apify runs in one US region. Agents set Crawl4AI up from one message, and 17 MCP tools let them price a call first and manage their own budget.",
 "jobs": [
  {
   "job": "One page to Markdown",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.10",
   "apify_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A whole site",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.10",
   "apify_per_1000": "≈ $0.10–$0.16",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A site that blocks bots",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$2.00",
   "apify_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "apify"
  },
  {
   "job": "Google results with ads",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "apify_per_1000": "$6.30–$9.50",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A LinkedIn profile as rows",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "apify_per_1000": "$3.20–$10",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "Structured JSON from a page",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.87",
   "apify_per_1000": "$20–$25",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  }
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SSO (SAML, OIDC)",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "apify": "Named; protocol and plan not published",
   "apify_quote": "Apify provides the controls: two-factor authentication, SSO, scoped tokens, organization roles, and per-resource access rights.",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/security/shared-responsibility.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SCIM user sync",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "apify": "Not published",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Teams, roles and audit log",
   "crawl4ai": "From Builder ($99), no seat limit",
   "apify": "Teams on all plans; audit log not published",
   "apify_quote": "available on all plans",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/account/collaboration/organization.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Zero data retention",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "apify": "Not published",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "IP allowlist and key limits",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "apify": "Scoped tokens; IP allowlist not published",
   "apify_quote": "Apify provides the controls: two-factor authentication, SSO, scoped tokens, organization roles, and per-resource access rights.",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/security/shared-responsibility.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Static exit IPs",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "apify": "Not published for the account",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Where data is processed",
   "crawl4ai": "EU, Singapore or US, your choice",
   "apify": "One US region (AWS us-east-1)",
   "apify_quote": "Apify operates the platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the us-east-1 region",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/security/shared-responsibility.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Deployment",
   "crawl4ai": "Cloud, dedicated fleet, inside your network, managed pipeline; one engine",
   "apify": "Apify cloud; self-hosted platform not published",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "DPA and invoice billing",
   "crawl4ai": "Every Enterprise plan",
   "apify": "Public DPA, with transfer to the US",
   "apify_quote": "Customer appoints Apify to transfer Personal Data to the United States or any other country in which Apify or its Subprocessors operate",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/legal/data-processing-addendum.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "apify": "None",
   "apify_quote": "Fees are non-cancellable, non-refundable, and shall not be subject to any set-off unless stated otherwise.",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/legal/general-terms-and-conditions.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Status page",
   "crawl4ai": "Hourly uptime per service, public",
   "apify": "25 incidents since 31 Dec 2025",
   "apify_quote": "status.apify.com history feed: 25 incidents, 31 Dec 2025 to 11 Nov 2026",
   "apify_source": "https://status.apify.com",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Uptime and response SLA",
   "crawl4ai": "Typical: 99.9% a month; service down: first answer within 1 hour, 24/7; part broken: 4 business hours; a question: 1 business day; 5% of the month's fee back if missed, 10% under 99%",
   "apify": "\"99.9% available\"; terms not published",
   "apify_quote": "Apify is 99.9% available, SOC 2 Type II compliant, and GDPR and CCPA compliant.",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/enterprise",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Support",
   "crawl4ai": "A named engineer",
   "apify": "Dedicated team; times not published",
   "apify_quote": "Dedicated team of experts",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/pricing.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Security assurance",
   "crawl4ai": "Controls monitored every day in Drata, with the evidence kept; dependencies watched for known vulnerabilities; SOC 2 audit by Sensiba under way, report target January 2027. Security pack on request: policies, audit status, DPA, questionnaire answers.",
   "apify": "SOC 2 Type II",
   "apify_quote": "The Apify platform is SOC 2 Type II compliant.",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/security.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "How you pay",
   "crawl4ai": "Credits in every plan: Free, Starter $10, Builder $99, Scale $499",
   "apify": "Free, Starter $19, Scale $199, Business $999; each tool has its own price",
   "apify_quote": "Flexible plans with pay-as-you-go usage on top of the monthly fee",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/pricing.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 plain / browser / hard pages",
   "crawl4ai": "$0.10 / $0.50 / $2.00",
   "apify": "Web Fetch: $1.50 each on Starter, $1.00 on Business",
   "apify_quote": "from $1.00 / 1,000 fetches",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/apify/web-fetch.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Failed calls",
   "crawl4ai": "Free, blocked pages included",
   "apify": "Each tool sets its own rule",
   "apify_quote": "Charge for inputs that seem valid but lead to errors, such as URLs that return a 404.",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/actors/monetize/pay-per-event.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "A page already cached",
   "crawl4ai": "Half price",
   "apify": "Not published",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Unused credit",
   "crawl4ai": "Extra credits never expire",
   "apify": "Prepaid usage expires every billing cycle",
   "apify_quote": "Note that unused usage credits are not rolled over to the next billing cycle, and they expire at the end of the billing cycle.",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/pricing.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "apify": "Failed runs paid back as usage, not money",
   "apify_quote": "Users receive compensation as platform usage on a gift invoice.",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/actors/monetize/compensation-requests.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Formats",
   "crawl4ai": "Markdown, HTML, links, media, metadata, tables; engine and cache on every answer",
   "apify": "Web Fetch: Markdown, HTML, text, links, raw",
   "apify_quote": "markdown, html, text, links, raw",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/apify/web-fetch.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Whole site",
   "crawl4ai": "/site deep crawl (500 pages a call); /scan up to 50,000 URLs",
   "apify": "Website Content Crawler, priced by compute",
   "apify_quote": "The exact price depends on the crawler type and settings, website complexity, network speed, and random circumstances.",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Google results as data",
   "crawl4ai": "/serp 1 credit; ads, maps and AI overview inside",
   "apify": "$2.50 per 1,000 pages; ads +$5.00, AI overview +$2.00",
   "apify_quote": "Extra cost per page for attempting to extract paid results (ads) ... regardless of whether ads are found on the specific page",
   "apify_source": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~google-search-scraper",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Named sites",
   "crawl4ai": "93 recipes from one team; a LinkedIn profile 1 credit",
   "apify": "114,028 store tools, most by outside creators",
   "apify_quote": "most Actors are built, priced, and maintained by independent creators rather than by Apify",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/llms.txt",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Extraction",
   "crawl4ai": "/extract by schema or plain words; median 1.87 credits",
   "apify": "AI Web Scraper: $25 per 1,000 pages on Starter",
   "apify_quote": "Each successfully processed URL",
   "apify_source": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~ai-web-scraper",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Documents",
   "crawl4ai": "PDF, Word and Excel; a PDF costs one page",
   "apify": "Web Fetch reads PDF text only",
   "apify_quote": "using extracted text (no layout, images, or tables)",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/apify/web-fetch.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Change monitoring",
   "crawl4ai": "Watch (beta)",
   "apify": "Not published as an Apify tool",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Hard sites",
   "row": "Proxies",
   "crawl4ai": "standard and extra levels; country choice; included in the page price",
   "apify": "Residential billed by traffic, $8 a GB on Starter",
   "apify_quote": "$8 / GB",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/pricing.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Hard sites",
   "row": "Bot checks",
   "crawl4ai": "Gets past bot checks and CAPTCHA pages on hard sites; a page we cannot get costs nothing",
   "apify": "Unblocker, $1.50 per 1,000 requests",
   "apify_quote": "$1.5 / 1,000 requests",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/pricing.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "MCP",
   "crawl4ai": "Hosted, no install; key or OAuth; 17 tools",
   "apify": "Hosted and local; OAuth or token",
   "apify_quote": "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/mcp.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Setup",
   "crawl4ai": "One message sets it up in 7 coding agents",
   "apify": "A CLI command per client",
   "apify_quote": "apify mcp install <client>",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/mcp.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Agent budget",
   "crawl4ai": "Estimate, balance, spend cap and top-up as tools; cost on every answer",
   "apify": "A cap the agent sets on each run",
   "apify_quote": "maxTotalChargeUsd caps the run's total charge, and maxItems is no substitute",
   "apify_source": "https://apify.com/agents.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Results",
   "crawl4ai": "In the answer",
   "apify": "Run status first; results by a second tool",
   "apify_quote": "Returns the run status and storage IDs, not the results themselves",
   "apify_source": "https://docs.apify.com/mcp.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "License",
   "crawl4ai": "Apache 2.0, 87,236 GitHub stars",
   "apify": "Crawlee library: Apache-2.0",
   "apify_quote": "Apache-2.0",
   "apify_source": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "Self-host",
   "crawl4ai": "The same engine as the Cloud",
   "apify": "Libraries only; platform self-host not published",
   "apify_quote": null,
   "apify_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  }
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   "name": "Apify pricing",
   "url": "https://apify.com/pricing.md"
  },
  {
   "name": "Apify Web Fetch",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Apify Google Search Results Scraper prices",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Apify AI Web Scraper prices",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Apify Website Content Crawler",
   "url": "https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler.md"
  },
  {
   "name": "Apify terms",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Apify security: shared responsibility",
   "url": "https://docs.apify.com/security/shared-responsibility.md"
  },
  {
   "name": "Apify MCP server",
   "url": "https://docs.apify.com/mcp.md"
  },
  {
   "name": "Apify status",
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  },
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   "name": "Crawl4AI prices",
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  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI legal",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/legal/"
  }
 ]
}