I like Apify because it handles proxy management behind the scenes, so I don’t have to worry about IP bans or maintaining proxy pools myself. I also value the huge marketplace of prebuilt actors, which means I don’t have to build and maintain custom scrapers. I can just find a ready-made one and have it running immediately. The MCP integration is also a big plus, letting me trigger Apify actors directly from AI assistants like Claude or Cursor. The initial setup was surprisingly quick, and it’s extremely easy for a small team, which was a pleasant surprise.

my experience with Apify, it makes web data extraction very seamless and it is also surprisingly quite affordable to get those data. i love that it provides the option of building your own actors from scratch that you can then tailor to whatsoever task that you want (In my case, Content strategy and research). and it has a whole app store that provides ready to use actors for various tasks. i even saw actors for tasks that I didn't even know were possible to automate even tough I still didn't end up using them because they weren't relevant to my goal. but in essence, it's a well built platform and the experience is amazing.

What I like most is how easy Apify makes it to connect AI agents with real data sources. With the MCP Server and the large number of ready-to-use Actors, we can test new workflows quickly without building a separate integration for every data source.