Comparison

Apify vs PricesAPI

Apify is a general-purpose actor marketplace (27,000+ scrapers). PricesAPI is two endpoints, focused entirely on shopping data — managed end-to-end, no actor selection or compute-unit math.

TL;DR

Apify gives you a marketplace of 27,000+ pre-built scraping actors plus the platform to build your own. Pricing is compute-unit based: $0.13-$0.20 per unit on top of your monthly plan credit. If your data needs span dozens of sites and you want one platform for all of them, Apify is the right shape. PricesAPI is the opposite: one job (shopping data), two endpoints, predictable per-call pricing. If shopping is your job, you don't need a marketplace — you need an API.

Side by side

PricesAPI pricing from /pricing. Apify pricing from apify.com/pricing. Verified 2026-05-02.

Feature	PricesAPI	Apify
Free tier	1,000 calls/mo, no card	$5 in store credit, no card
Cheapest paid plan	$49/mo · 25,000 calls	$29/mo · $29 in store credit
Pricing model	Per-call, predictable	Per-compute-unit (varies by actor) + monthly plan credit
Shopping data	Yes — primary product, parsed	Pick or build a shopping actor; you maintain it
Merchant offers per product	Yes — /offers endpoint, every seller	Build it yourself or hunt the actor marketplace
Endpoints to learn	2	27,000+ actors, each with own input schema
Concurrent runs (cheapest paid)	60 req/min	25 concurrent actor runs
Use case fit	Shopping data buyers	Multi-site scraping marketplace
Open ecosystem	No — closed product	Yes — publish your own actors, earn revenue

Choose PricesAPI when

✓Shopping is your job — you want a managed API, not a marketplace of scrapers to evaluate.
✓You want predictable per-call pricing, not compute-unit math.
✓You want merchant-offer data per product without building or maintaining your own actor.
✓You'd rather call /search and /offers than learn 27,000 actor input schemas.

Choose Apify when

•Your data needs span many different sites and you want one platform for all of them.
•You want to publish your own scrapers and potentially monetize them on a marketplace.
•You want the option to build custom actors when off-the-shelf doesn't fit.

Response shape

PricesAPI · GET /v1/products/search

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "query": "Sony WH-1000XM5",
    "country": "us",
    "products": [
      {
        "product_id": "100569554",
        "title": "Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Headphones",
        "price": 348.00,
        "currency": "USD",
        "image": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...",
        "source": "Amazon.com",
        "rating": 4.7,
        "reviews": 8523
      }
    ]
  }
}

Apify · POST /v2/acts/<actor>/runs

# 1. Pick or build an actor
# 2. POST run with input schema
# 3. Poll for completion (sync option costs more)
# 4. Fetch dataset items
{
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "actId": "compass~google-shopping-scraper",
    "status": "RUNNING",
    "startedAt": "2026-05-02T...",
    ...
  }
}
# Then GET /v2/datasets/{id}/items
# Then parse merchant-specific schema

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