Apify vs Dumpling AI (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Apify if

• Fits if you'd rather run a ready-made Google or Maps scraper than write one
• Works for developers who want their own scrapers hosted, scheduled and monitored

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: each store Actor sets its own price, usually per result or per event, so two jobs that look alike can cost different amounts
• Tight if you're on Free, where Actors stop once the month's $5 of usage is spent
• Watch out: prepaid usage you don't spend expires each billing cycle, and use beyond it lands on the next invoice
• Pricey if you need residential proxies at $7 to $8 per GB or Google SERP proxies at $1.70 to $2.50 per 1,000 searches
• Pricey if you outgrow Starter, since the next plan is Scale at $199 a month

Pick Dumpling AI if

• Fits if you want search, scraping and extraction from one account
• Works for people wiring up n8n or Make flows

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to try it free, since there is no free plan or trial
• Tight if your usage is uneven: subscription credits do not roll over
• Watch out: credits per request go from one to several depending on the action
• Watch out: only yearly-billed prices were readable, and the Starter plan is held to 30 requests a minute

Apify

• Store Actors set their own prices, so the cost of a job depends on which Actor runs it and how many results it returns.
• Use beyond a paid plan's prepaid amount is added to the next invoice; on the free plan, Actors stop until the next month.
• Prepaid usage that is not spent expires at the end of each billing cycle.
• Residential proxies cost $7 to $8 per GB and Google SERP proxies $1.70 to $2.50 per 1,000 searches, depending on plan.

Dumpling AI

• The pricing page opens on yearly billing; the monthly-billed prices were not readable, so only per-month-billed-annually figures are shown.
• Subscription credits do not roll over, while separately bought credit packs never expire.
• Each request costs from one to several credits depending on the action; a separate credit cost list exists.
• The homepage mentions a free tier but gives no allowance, and the pricing page lists no free plan.

Apify

Apify Store

Nearly 97,000 ready-made Actors for sites such as Google, Google Maps, TikTok and Instagram. Each sets its own price, usually per result or per event.

Google Search Results Scraper

Apify's own Actor returns organic and paid results, People Also Ask, related queries, AI Overviews and AI Mode by country and language, from $1.80 per 1,000 pages.

Build and host your own Actors

Start from Python, JavaScript or TypeScript templates, use the open-source Crawlee library, and run, schedule and monitor the Actors on Apify.

Proxies and unblocking

Datacenter and residential proxies, Google SERP proxies priced per 1,000 searches, and an unblocker billed per 1,000 requests.

API, CLI, webhooks and MCP

Run Actors and fetch results over a REST API or CLI, get webhooks when runs finish, chain Actors together, or call them from AI agents through an MCP server.

Automation integrations

Connectors for Make, n8n, Zapier and other automation tools, and setups for coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenAI Codex.

Dumpling AI

Search

Web, news, maps and autocomplete lookups through one API, auto-routed or pinned to Serper, Perplexity or DataForSEO.

Scraping

Fetches static pages, rendered apps and full crawls, with Firecrawl, SpiderCloud and native routes supported.

Document extraction

Turns PDFs and other documents into text or structured data through doc-to-text and extract-document endpoints.

Social and enrichment data

YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google Reviews data, plus email verification and company enrichment.

CLI, MCP and HTTP

The same capabilities are reachable from a command-line tool, an MCP server or plain HTTP calls.

Apify

• Free$0

  $5 of usage a month at $0.20 per compute unit, 16 GB of Actor memory and 5 concurrent runs. Stops when the $5 is spent.

• Starter$19

  per month, billed monthly, with $19 of usage included

  $0.20 per compute unit, 64 GB of Actor memory, 32 concurrent runs, chat support and the Bronze Store discount. Extra usage is billed.

• Scale$199

  per month, billed monthly, with $199 of usage included

  $0.16 per compute unit, 256 GB of memory, 128 concurrent runs, priority chat support, the Silver Store discount and lower proxy rates.

• Business$999

  per month, billed monthly, with $999 of usage included

  $0.13 per compute unit, 512 GB of memory, 256 concurrent runs, an account manager and the Gold Store discount.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom scraping solutions, pricing and limits, with SLAs on data and a dedicated team. Through sales.

Dumpling AI

• Starter$40

  per month, billed annually

  1,200,000 credits per year, 30 requests per minute, basic support.

• Pro$124

  per month, billed annually

  4,200,000 credits per year, 60 requests per minute, standard support.

• Business$249

  per month, billed annually

  9,600,000 credits per year, 120 requests per minute, priority support.

Apify

• Annual discount

  Save 10% with annual billing

  Apify's pricing page shows a 10% discount for billing annually instead of monthly.

• Education

  30% off Starter and Scale for students

  Apify's pricing FAQ says students are eligible for 30% off the Starter and Scale plans.

• Nonprofit

  Personalized discount for nonprofits

  Apify's pricing FAQ says nonprofit organizations can get a personalized discount on paid plans.

• Startups

  30% off the Scale plan for startups

  Apify's pricing FAQ offers startups a 30% discount on the Scale plan.

Dumpling AI

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing: 2 months free

  The pricing toggle marks yearly billing as 2 months free compared with paying monthly.