Apify
Apify is building the world's leading platform for developing and running web data and automation solutions. They help people get more value from the web, letting them automate mundane tasks and spend their time on things that matter.
At a Glance
- AI and machine learning companies
- LLM application developers
- Enterprise companies
- Software developers
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AI Tools by Apify
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Apify
Web Scraping and Automation Platform
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Latest News
Actor schemas updates - introducing schema support for Actor outputs, datasets, web server responses, and key-value stores
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Apify Bets $1M on Independent Developers Building AI's Missing Tools - launching the Apify $1M Challenge running through January 31, 2026
Apify celebrates 10-year anniversary and publishes origin story
Products & Services
A cloud-based platform for web scraping and browser automation that turns any website into an API. The platform provides tools for developing and running web data extraction solutions at scale.
An open marketplace with over 14,318 ready-made Actors (cloud-based programs that can be easily run, shared, integrated, and built upon) for web scraping and automation tasks. Developers can monetize their tools through the marketplace. Last month (as of Nov 2025), the company paid developers over $500,000.
An open-source web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that helps developers build fast and reliable crawlers with a single interface for both HTTP and headless browsers.
An open-source web scraping and browser automation library for Python, expanding Crawlee to the Python ecosystem with the same powerful features.
Market Position
Apify positions itself as the world's largest marketplace for web data and automation tools. They differentiate through: (1) A containerized cloud infrastructure for scalability, (2) The largest marketplace with 14,318+ ready-made Actors, (3) Open-source Crawlee libraries for both Node.js and Python, (4) Developer-first approach with monetization opportunities, (5) Strong integration ecosystem with AI/LLM tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex, (6) Focus on handling dynamic, JavaScript-rendered websites that traditional scrapers can't handle, (7) Ability to scrape 4+ billion web pages monthly. The company has been profitable and cash-flow positive, growing without significant VC funding until 2024.
Leadership
Founders
Jan Čurn
Co-founder and CEO. Met Jakub Balada while studying computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague. Previously worked on a school project called 'najednommiste.cz' (a semantic web analyzer for used car listings), which later inspired Apify. Co-founded Dev tank, a consulting company, before launching Apify. Participated in Y Combinator Fellowship (YC F1) in 2015.
Jakub Balada
Co-founder. Met Jan Čurn while studying computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague. Co-founded Dev tank, a consulting company with Jan before launching Apify. Participated in Y Combinator Fellowship (YC F1) in 2015. Previously worked as a consultant before deciding to build a product-based company.
Executive Team
Jan Čurn
Founder & CEO
Co-founder with software development background, studied computer science at Charles University Prague
Jakub Balada
Co-founder
Co-founder with software development background, studied computer science at Charles University Prague
Founding Story
Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada met while studying computer science at Charles University in Prague. They initially formed Dev tank, a consulting company, but grew dissatisfied with selling their time. In 2014-2015, while working on a client project that required extracting data from real estate websites, they realized existing web scraping tools couldn't handle the dynamic, JavaScript-driven modern web. They decided to build their own tool using PhantomJS, the first headless browser. On October 20, 2015, they launched Apifier (later renamed Apify) on Hacker News from a hacker house. They were accepted into the inaugural Y Combinator Fellowship (YC F1) program in 2015, which provided $12,000 and mentorship. The company moved to Mountain View, California for the program, then returned to Prague in 2016 where they raised seed funding and began building the full-stack platform.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage and subscriptions. The company operates on a pay-as-you-go model with monthly subscription tiers. Revenue also comes from the Apify Store marketplace where developers build and monetize tools (company pays developers a share of revenue, e.g., $500K+ per month as of Nov 2025). Pricing is based on compute units plus add-ons for concurrent runs, Actor RAM, proxy services, and support.
Pricing Tiers
$5 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors, $0.3 per compute unit, community support, no Apify Store discount
$29 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors, $0.3 per compute unit, chat support, Bronze Apify Store discount
$199 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors, $0.25 per compute unit, priority chat support, Silver Apify Store discount
$999 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors, $0.2 per compute unit, account manager, Gold Apify Store discount
Custom scraping solutions, scalable pricing, SLAs with guaranteed data, dedicated team of experts
6-month program for developers building their own Actors and AI agents with $500 worth of free usage plus other benefits
Target Markets
- AI and machine learning companies
- LLM application developers
- Enterprise companies
- Software developers
- Data scientists
- Marketing agencies
- AI training data collection
- LLM application data feeding
- Vector database population
- RAG pipeline integration
- Social media monitoring and analytics
- Competitive intelligence
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