Head-to-head
Apify vs Firecrawl
Dead heat: Apify and Firecrawl split 2 shared leaderboards. Based on how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok rank both across 2 shared leaderboards — re-polled on demand, reasoning shown verbatim.
| Leaderboard | Apify | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Best AI web scraping API | #2 / 9 | #1 / 9 |
| Best Web Scraping API for JavaScript Developers | #1 / 11 | #2 / 11 |
Why the models rank Apify — on best ai web scraping api
“Near-tie for first and stronger for heterogeneous or difficult jobs: a vast Actor ecosystem, custom Crawlee-based scrapers, proxies, scheduling, datasets, API clients, and native MCP/agent integration provide exceptional breadth.”
Why the models rank Firecrawl — on best ai web scraping api
“Best default for AI applications: clean Markdown, structured extraction, crawling, search, browser actions, SDKs, MCP support, and self-hostable open-source code in one developer-friendly API; ranked for teams prioritizing retrieval-ready content over bespoke scraping control.”
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Ranks from the merged 4-model leaderboards · re-polled on demand · methodology