# Agentik vs Apify

Apify is a marketplace of scrapers. Agentik bills curated data per call, no plan.

Agentik wrote this comparison from Apify's public pages (apify.com), read on 10 October 2026. Agentik is not affiliated with Apify. Corrections: info@agentik.cc.

## Which one fits

- Choose Apify if you need a ready-made scraper for a particular site, want to build, run and sell your own Actors, or want your agent to pay over x402 with no account.
- Choose Agentik if your agent needs SEO, social media, ad library and contact data from one prepaid balance, with no plan or compute units to size, or works on your own ad accounts.

## Side by side

Read on 10 October 2026. "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.

### Billing

| | Agentik | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| 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 go |
| 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 out |
| 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 plan |
| 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 account |

### What your agent can use

| | Agentik | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| 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 creators |
| SEO and search data | Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa | Yes. Google Search and Google Trends scrapers, and Google SERP proxies |
| Web search and page reading | Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more | Yes. Website Content Crawler, and page fetching that renders JavaScript past anti-bot protection |
| Social media data | Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more | Yes. TikTok, Instagram and Facebook scrapers, among others |
| Ad libraries | Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO | Yes. A Facebook Ads Library scraper, for ads on Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms |
| People, companies and emails | Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more | Yes. Lead generation Actors, such as Google Maps businesses with names, emails and job titles |
| 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 Zapier |

### How your agent connects

| | Agentik | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| 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 account |
| 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 Codex |
| REST API | Yes. REST API and OpenAPI | Yes. REST API with OpenAPI, and JavaScript and Python clients |
| 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 hosted |

### Control

| | Agentik | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| 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 run |
| Spending caps | Yes. Hourly, daily, lifetime and per-tool caps per key | Yes. A usage limit in billing settings, and a maximum charge per run |
| 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 chart |
| Team workspace | Yes. Invite teammates | Yes. Organizations, with permissions on Actors, runs and storage |

## Where Apify is the better choice

- **A catalog built by a community.** Apify 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.
- **Build, run and sell your own Actors.** Start 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.
- **Agents can pay with no account.** An 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.
- **A free plan that renews.** The 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.

## Where Agentik is different

- **No plan or compute units.** Agentik 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 call.** Your 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 accounts.** 650 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 ad.** Adspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.
- **Jobs ready to run.** 101 playbooks each combine several providers for one job, with the prompt to paste and the most the example can cost.

## Using both

Some teams use both: Apify for a scraper of a site Agentik does not cover, or one they built themselves, and Agentik for SEO, social, ad and contact data from one balance and for their own ad accounts. Both are remote MCP servers; add both to the same client and your agent picks the tool it needs.

## Questions

### Is Agentik an alternative to Apify?

For SEO, social media, ad library and contact data, yes: Agentik serves 2,287 tools from 52 providers from one prepaid balance, with no plan or compute units. For a ready-made scraper of a particular site, or one you build and run yourself, Apify Store’s 84,498 Actors go much further.

### How do Apify and Agentik bill?

Apify sells monthly plans of prepaid usage, from Free ($5 of usage a month) to Business ($999 a month), then pay as you go; each Actor charges per event or for the platform usage it consumes. Agentik bills each call at the provider’s price from a prepaid balance, with 0% markup; top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80.

### Can an agent pay without an account?

On Apify, yes: an agent can pay over x402 or MPP for a temporary token with a spend cap. Agentik takes cards only, by design, so running a tool needs an account. Both let an agent search their catalog without one.

### Can I use Apify and Agentik in the same agent?

Yes. Both are remote MCP servers. Add both to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, and your agent calls each one for its part.

## Sources and method

1. [Apify home page](https://apify.com/), read on 10 October 2026
2. [Apify pricing, with its plans, add-ons and FAQ](https://apify.com/pricing), read on 10 October 2026
3. [Apify llms.txt](https://apify.com/llms.txt), read on 10 October 2026
4. [Apify MCP server documentation](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp), read on 10 October 2026
5. [Facebook Ads Library Scraper in Apify Store](https://apify.com/apify/facebook-ads-scraper), read on 10 October 2026

The Apify column states only what these pages say, in their words; a copy of each page as read is kept. Agentik's column comes from the catalog the site is built from and from the backend's billing terms. Names and logos belong to their owners.

Approved by Gaultier on 11 October 2026.

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- [Agentik vs RapidAPI](/compare/agentik-vs-rapidapi.md): A hub of third-party APIs with a plan for each, or curated data billed per call with no plan.

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