Apify

platform

proprietary(Apify-Cloud,Actor-store,managed)

source

partial(Crawlee SDK published, the platform that runs Actors is not)

oss-sdk

Crawlee(Apache-2.0,OSI, JS+Python)

license

mixed(platform closed, SDK open)

The product proper (Apify platform/Actor store) is proprietary SaaS; Apify also maintains the OSS Crawlee scraping library (Apache-2.0). Crawlee is an adjacent SDK rather than the platform core, so most value stays behind the managed cloud. Class corrected from open_core on 2026-07-30. In this ladder open_core means an OSI core with functionality withheld for a paid tier, and there is no open core here, only an open periphery. A repo that exists while the runtime does not ship is source:partial, which the ladder scores 2/source_available. The score itself was already 2.

• https://apify.com recorded 2026-06-04

  proprietary full-stack scraping platform with 35,000+ Actors; Crawlee called out as their OSS contribution

• https://github.com/apify/crawlee recorded 2026-06-04

  Crawlee Apache-2.0 license (OSI), Apify's open source scraping library