There are some smaller providers on Apify offering data at much lower prices than the big players We managed to cut our data costs several times over by using Apify actors https://apify.com/b2bsearch

The ready-made actors just work. We use Google Maps, Google Search, website content, Facebook Ad Library, Google Ads and X/Twitter scrapers in our own products, and they return clean, structured data without us having to manage proxies or rebuild scrapers when sites change. The API is simple to call from our backend, and setting a spending limit on every run keeps our costs predictable. It has saved us months of development and maintenance work.

It reduces the time I spend repeatedly checking websites and collecting information manually. There are ready-made Actors for different websites and tasks, so I can often get started just by configuring an existing solution, which makes it easy to begin. The API also works really well.