Apify

Apify is a web scraping and automation platform for developers, founders, data teams, and AI builders. It lets users run ready-made Actors from the Apify Store or build custom Actors in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python for collecting and automating web data. The platform is useful for AI agents and SaaS products because many workflows require fresh web data: leads, jobs, ecommerce prices, search results, reviews, social profiles, market research, and competitor monitoring. Apify provides infrastructure around proxies, storage, scheduling, queues, APIs, SDKs, and an MCP server so agents and apps can call web automation tools reliably. Apify pricing combines monthly plan credits with pay-as-you-go usage for compute, proxies, storage, and rented Actors. This makes it flexible for small prototypes and larger data pipelines. For FutureStack, Apify is a strong Developer Tools listing because it gives builders practical web data infrastructure for AI products. It is best for developers, SaaS founders, growth teams, and entrepreneurs building agents, enrichment tools, research workflows, and data-driven automation.