Comparison

ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API vs Apify

ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API and Apify both land on Depends.

ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API

Depends

Confidence: Low

Buy if you regularly pull web data into apps or no-code automations and don't want to run proxies yourself; skip if you need data once.

Depends

Confidence: High

Buy if your team needs recurring web data, lead gen, or scraping APIs feeding apps or AI agents.

ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API versus Apify
Compare	ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API	Apify
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Developers embedding web data in apps	Lead-gen and sales data teams
Who it's not for	One-off scrapes . copy-paste or a cheap scraper wins	One-off scrapes . a freelancer or free tool is cheaper
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^²	SOC 2 Type II compliant with a public trust center, but 2026 CVEs and a reported email-data breach exist.¹⁰
Support quality	No support evidence in sources.	No supporting evidence found
Public sentiment	Only vendor-collected homepage testimonials surfaced; no independent reviews were found in sources reviewed.^²	Users rate Apify very highly, with pricing surprises the most common complaint.^⁴
Biggest gotcha	JS rendering, premium proxies, and anti-bot flags burn credits faster . usage costs are opaque until billed.^²	Usage-based billing can balloon: one developer reported a bill 5x higher than expected^⁶