G2

offerastudio .

Founder & Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/21/2026

"Simple way to build, host and sell data tools as a small team"

4/5

What do you like best about Apify?

Pay-per-event monetization is the biggest win for us. We set a price per result, and Apify handles billing, payments and payouts, so we never had to build a payment system. We publish about 40 data tools on the Store and push updates from the CLI with one command. The API is fast and simple: our own backend calls our Actors (for example sanctions screening and media transcription) and gets results back in a few seconds. The Store also brings real users. A paying customer found our sanctions screening Actor there without any marketing from our side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apify?

Some parts take time to learn. The monetization settings and Insights pages are not very intuitive at first, and account verification steps could be explained more clearly. As a developer I would like more detail when a user's run fails, so I can improve the Actor faster. The free monthly credit is also used up quickly when you maintain many Actors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apify solving and how is that benefiting you?

Apify lets a very small team sell data tools without running its own infrastructure. Before Apify we would have needed servers, proxies, a billing system and a payout process. Now we publish an Actor, set a pay-per-event price, and Apify takes care of hosting, scaling, billing and payouts. We also use Actors as a backend for our own API when a job needs a real browser or heavier processing. The benefit is speed and low cost: we launched dozens of tools in a few weeks without renting a server, and we spend our time building new tools instead of maintaining infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.