# Apify: what AI models say (September 2026)

Source: Memetik Index, https://www.memetik.ai/vendors/apify
Website: https://apify.com

Apify was named in 12 of 50 AI answers across 1 category. Best position: Web search and scraping APIs for AI, 24% answer share, ranked #11, named first in 0%.

## What Apify is

Apify is a marketplace of tools for people and teams using AI, apps and agents that need web data or web automation. It offers ready-to-run Actors for tasks including scraping, lead generation and social-media monitoring. Users can also publish Actors free of charge, while customers pay for computing resources.

Actors run in Apify’s cloud and can be built or deployed using code templates and guides. The platform provides monitoring, data processing, proxies and unblocking to support web tasks. MCP connectors let Actors read from, write to and trigger workflows in services including Notion, Slack and GitHub.

Pricing: Publishing an Actor is free of charge; customers pay for computing resources.
(From Apify's own website, read 2026-09-02.)

## By category

| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web search and scraping APIs for AI (https://www.memetik.ai/index/ai-search-apis) | #11 of 17 | 24% | 0% | GPT-5.6 Sol, ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Luna, Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable 5, Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Sonar Reasoning Pro |

## What the models said

> "Building a serious data-collection pipeline: use Bright Data or Apify, often with Browserbase for the hard interactive cases."
> — ChatGPT, Web search and scraping APIs for AI