Apify vs BrowserAct vs SearchCans vs Olostep

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Apify
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Competitor 1
BrowserAct
Competitor 2
SearchCans
Competitor 3
Olostep
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Apify
apify.com
Apify is a web scraping and automation platform built around a marketplace of ready-to-run programs called Actors.
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Competitor BrowserAct
browseract.com
BrowserAct is a no-code web scraping platform that builds a reusable scraper from one prompt.
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Competitor SearchCans
searchcans.com
SearchCans is a search and content-extraction API service for AI workflows.
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Competitor Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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163.5Kvisits/mo
8.8Kvisits/mo
27.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 12.3%
▼ 9.6%
▲ 13.3%
6-month growth
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-5.0%
+487.2%
+269.4%
Global rank web
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#275,930
#2,433,686
#1,046,647
Avg. last 3 months
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147.7K
7.4K
21.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
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42%
40%
42%
Pages / visit
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2.5
1.5
2.0
Visit duration
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1m 07s
3s
56s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 76% · ● Referral 23%
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● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
ApifyBrowserActSearchCansOlostep
043K86.1K129.1K172.1KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KSearchCans · 1.7KSearchCans · 1.5KSearchCans · 2.5KSearchCans · 2.2KSearchCans · 3.8KSearchCans · 9.8KSearchCans · 8.8KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5K1K10K100K1MBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KSearchCans · 1.7KSearchCans · 1.5KSearchCans · 2.5KSearchCans · 2.2KSearchCans · 3.8KSearchCans · 9.8KSearchCans · 8.8KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$19per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
$18per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
Plans
Free FreeStarter $19/moScale $199/moBusiness $999/mo+1 more
Free FreeBasic $16/moEssential $70/moAdvanced $120/mo
Standard $18Starter $99
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
DocumentsTextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Output
Data
Data
DataText
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
5
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3
Web scraping
Website crawling
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Maps data scraping
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Social media scraping
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Website monitoring
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Lead generation
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.