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 - the Apify platform and its Actor store - is proprietary SaaS. Apify also maintains Crawlee, an Apache-2.0 scraping library, but Crawlee is an adjacent SDK rather than the platform core, so most of the value stays behind the managed cloud. Open core would mean an OSI-licensed core with functionality withheld for a paid tier; there is no open core here, only an open periphery. Publishing a repository while the runtime itself does not ship counts as partial source, which scores 2, source-available.

• https://apify.com recorded 2026-08-13

  Proprietary full-stack platform - Apify Store, Actors ("Build and run serverless programs"), Integrations, an MCP server, Anti-blocking and Proxy - with a single "Open source" navigation heading holding Crawlee alone. The store now advertises 59,817 Actors, up from the 35,000+ this record carried. No self-hosted Actor runtime is offered.

• https://github.com/apify/crawlee recorded 2026-08-13

  Crawlee repo - Apache-2.0 license badge and repo metadata spdxId Apache-2.0, "Apache License 2.0"; LICENSE.md at the root. The library only; it is not the Actor platform.