Apify is actor-based scraping + browser automation. ToolCenter is a broader API platform — Scrape endpoint + 34 more under a single bearer token, plus an MCP server for AI agents. Here's how they compare and when to switch.
Every compare page on this site starts the same way: a shipping team hit a billing wall, or outgrew a single-purpose API. Here's what they find on the other side.
ToolCenter's scrape endpoint is flat. No "datacenter proxy" add-on.
Scraping returns clean Markdown (500× fewer tokens than raw HTML).
No actors, no deployments. Just POST /v1/scrape.
We're not pretending otherwise — if these are your core needs, Apify is a great product.
Drop your Apify key, swap the base URL, ship. Our free tier covers 100 calls — enough to evaluate before you commit. No credit card.