Apify

Apify belongs in the catalog because it sits at the intersection of automation, web data, and AI-ready collection infrastructure in a way many newer products still do not. The platform is not only about scraping a single site. It combines hosted execution, schedulers, proxy support, developer tooling, and a marketplace of Actors that teams can run or adapt. That matters for AI stack builders because a lot of retrieval, enrichment, and monitoring workflows still begin with messy public web data. Apify gives those teams a more operationalized layer than stitching together headless browsers and cron jobs alone.

It also deserves inclusion because the commercial model is refreshingly explicit. The official pricing page currently shows Free at $0, Starter at $29/month plus pay-as-you-go, Scale at $199/month plus pay-as-you-go, Business at $999/month plus pay-as-you-go, and Enterprise as custom. The page also explains included monthly spend and compute-unit pricing, which keeps the economics understandable instead of burying everything behind a sales call. That is exactly the kind of transparency a premium tools catalog should preserve.