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Web scraping & data extraction
11 tools compared: how each is priced, where it runs, and what to consider instead.
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apify Hosted crawler platform where scrapers run as cloud 'Actors', with a marketplace of pre-built ones and a proxy add-on. | Subscription | Yes | No |
| Bright Data Proxy network and web-data platform for large-scale scraping, with residential/datacenter IPs and hosted scraper APIs. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Diffbot Extraction API that uses machine-learning models to return structured data (articles, products, discussions) from any page without site-specific rules. | Subscription | Yes | No |
| Firecrawl Hosted fetch API that turns any URL or site crawl into clean Markdown/JSON, built for feeding LLM and RAG pipelines. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Import.io Managed web-data-as-a-service platform combining visual extraction setup with a team that maintains scrapers against defended sites. | Subscription | Yes | No |
| Octoparse No-code visual scraper: point-and-click a desktop or cloud workflow to extract site data without writing code. | Free tier + paid | Yes | No |
| Oxylabs Proxy network provider (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile) with add-on scraper APIs for unblocking and structured extraction. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Playwright Open-source browser-automation library (not a scraping product) that many teams use directly to script and scrape JS-heavy sites. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| ScrapingBee Simple fetch API that renders JavaScript and rotates proxies, returning page HTML or extracted data for a credit per request. | Subscription | No | No |
| Scrapy Open-source Python framework you run yourself to write, schedule and scale web crawlers and spiders. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Zyte Hosted crawler platform and single unblocking API, built by the maintainers of the Scrapy framework. | Usage-based | Yes | No |