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)

Apify's platform and Actor store are proprietary hosted services, and the runtime that executes Actors is not published. Crawlee, its Apache-2.0 scraping library, has a public repository, but it is an adjacent library rather than the platform core, so the disclosure is partial rather than an open core with a few paid features withheld.

• https://apify.com recorded 2026-09-28

  The homepage presents Apify as a hosted service ("Apify is a marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI", "Rely on Apify infra", with "Pricing" and "Contact sales"), and "Crawlee" is the only project listed under "We love open source". Searched the body for self-host, on-prem, license and download: none, so no self-hosted platform or platform license 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.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/crawlee/master/LICENSE.md recorded 2026-09-28

  Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/crawlee/master/README.md recorded 2026-09-28

  This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0

Named enterprise users such as T-Mobile, Microsoft and Accenture run on the Apify platform, and the open-source Crawlee library draws heavy attention on GitHub. Apify publishes no account, run or API-call count for the platform itself, so adoption here is a judgment made across the platform and Crawlee together rather than one measured figure.

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

  "Browse 59,817 Actors" in the store; T-Mobile and Accenture among named enterprise users; a Discord invite link. NOT on the page: a Discord member count, an account count, a run count or an API-call figure.

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

  25,373 stargazers on the OSS Crawlee library. Corroborating attention signal, not the basis.

Apify's own first-party actors, such as Google Search Results Scraper, call the platform API directly and return organic search results and dataset items, putting search and retrieval on the platform itself rather than only in its marketplace -- third-party actors that the store merely hosts, built by other developers, do not count toward this. That puts Apify level with Firecrawl.

• https://apify.com/apify/google-search-scraper recorded 2026-09-17

  Google Search Results Scraper, `apify/google-search-scraper`: "Developer Apify. Maintained by Apify", "Scrape Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)... extract organic and paid results, AI Mode, AI overviews, ads, queries, People Also Ask", priced from $1.80 per 1,000 scraped search result pages, 17K monthly active users. Establishes a first-party query-driven search surface rather than a hosted third-party one.

• https://docs.apify.com/api/v2 recorded 2026-09-17

  The Apify API v2 reference: Run Actor, "Run Actor synchronously and get dataset items", Get list of runs, and the dataset endpoints. Establishes that the documented interface runs an actor and returns its structured output.