Agentik vs Apify

What Agentik and Apify publish, feature by feature, read on 10 October 2026. Each sign says Yes, Partly, No or Not published.

	Agentik	Apify
Billing
How you pay	A prepaid balance; each call at the provider’s price. No plan	A monthly plan of prepaid usage (Free, Starter $19, Scale $199, Business $999); paid plans then pay as you go2
To start free	$5 of credit for eligible new accounts, for 14 days, for low-cost calls	$5 of usage every month on the Free plan, no card; access pauses when it runs out32
Fees	0% markup on tool calls. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80, added on top; none on a first top-up of $10 or less	Each Actor’s own price per event, or the platform usage it consumes, with compute units at $0.13 to $0.2 by plan2
Agent pays per call over x402	No. Card only, by design	Yes. Agents pay over x402 or MPP for a token with a spend cap, with no account2
What your agent can use
Catalog, as published	2,287 tools that run today, from 52 providers (catalog of 10 October 2026)	84,498 Actors in Apify Store, mostly built, priced and maintained by independent creators13
SEO and search data	Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa	Yes. Google Search and Google Trends scrapers, and Google SERP proxies42
Web search and page reading	Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more	Yes. Website Content Crawler, and page fetching that renders JavaScript past anti-bot protection14
Social media data	Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more	Yes. TikTok, Instagram and Facebook scrapers, among others1
Ad libraries	Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO	Yes. A Facebook Ads Library scraper, for ads on Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms5
People, companies and emails	Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more	Yes. Lead generation Actors, such as Google Maps businesses with names, emails and job titles1
Image, video and audio generation	Yes. 200 models from fal.ai	Not published
Your ad and analytics accounts	Yes. 650 tools on your own ad and analytics accounts, connected once per workspace	Not published
Actions in your own apps (mail, chat, CRM)	No. No mail, chat or CRM actions	Partly. Integrations send Actor results to apps such as Slack, Google Sheets and Zapier31
How your agent connects
Remote MCP server	Yes. One server, OAuth or API key	Yes. A hosted server at mcp.apify.com, with OAuth or an API token; its search tools need no account4
Setup for Claude and ChatGPT	Yes. Guides for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex	Yes. Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and a plugin for Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex34
REST API	Yes. REST API and OpenAPI	Yes. REST API with OpenAPI, and JavaScript and Python clients3
Bring your own provider keys	No. Agentik holds the provider accounts	Not published
Open source	No. Hosted service	Partly. Crawlee and the MCP server are open source; the platform is hosted14
Control
Price shown before each call	Yes. Each tool’s price, and the most a call can reserve	Partly. Each Actor states its pricing, also over MCP; platform usage is gauged with a test run24
Spending caps	Yes. Hourly, daily, lifetime and per-tool caps per key	Yes. A usage limit in billing settings, and a maximum charge per run24
A record of every call	Yes. Price, latency and status of every call	Yes. Each run with its status and log, and a daily usage chart42
Team workspace	Yes. Invite teammates	Yes. Organizations, with permissions on Actors, runs and storage3

“Not published” means the pages we read say nothing about it, not that Apify lacks it. Agentik’s column comes from its catalog of 10 October 2026 and its pricing.

• A catalog built by a communityApify Store lists 84,498 Actors, mostly built and maintained by independent creators, from TikTok and Google Maps scrapers to e-commerce crawlers. Agentik’s catalog is smaller and chosen provider by provider.13
• Build, run and sell your own ActorsStart from Python, JavaScript or TypeScript templates, run on Apify’s infrastructure without managing compute, storage or proxies, and publish in Apify Store to get paid. Apify can also build and maintain one for you.1
• Agents can pay with no accountAn autonomous agent can pay over x402 or MPP, receive a temporary token with a spend cap and run Actors with no sign-up. Agentik takes cards only.2
• A free plan that renewsThe Free plan renews $5 of usage every month with no card, and pauses instead of billing when it runs out. Agentik’s free credit is a one-off for new accounts.3

• No plan or compute unitsAgentik bills each call at the provider’s price from one prepaid balance, with nothing to size in advance: no monthly plan, compute units, memory or proxies. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80.
• A price before every callYour agent reads each tool’s price and quotes the call before it runs. Most tools reserve a guaranteed maximum; tools billed at actual cost say so.
• Your own ad and analytics accounts650 tools read and change your ad accounts, Google Analytics and Search Console, connected once per workspace. Changes are previewed first and applied only when confirmed.
• Ad research with an analysis of each adAdspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.
• Jobs ready to run101 playbooks each combine several providers for one job, with the prompt to paste and the most the example can cost.

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