Head-to-Head Comparison · 2026
Scrapy vs Apify: Head-to-Head Comparison (2026)
Scrapy or Apify for web scraping in 2026? Compare throughput, anti-bot success, real pricing and the best proxies to pair with each — with a clear verdict.
Verdict
Scrapy is dramatically cheaper at steady volume because you supply the compute and buy proxy bandwidth wholesale. Apify wins on time-to-first-dataset and on operations you would otherwise build yourself — cron, retries, dashboards, dataset export and a store of ready-made actors.
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