Apify Alternative
HasData is the faster Apify alternative: structured JSON in 1.9s from one REST API, against Apify actors that cold-start for 8 to 60 seconds per run.
HasData vs Apify
Compare request costs, data sources, and the features included in your plan.
| Feature | HasData | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1,000 credits every month, no card | $5 credit renews monthly |
| Starting price | $59/mo 200,000 credits, monthly billing | $29/mo + pay-as-you-go |
| Delivery model | one REST API request in, JSON out | rentable actors containerized batch jobs |
| Median response | 1.9s synchronous API call | 26s actor run, cold start 8–60s |
| Named/dedicated APIs | 50+ first-party, one format | 29k+ actors third-party, format varies by creator |
| No-code scrapers | Yes templates + scheduled jobs | Yes via Store actors |
| Per-scraper fees | none all from one credit balance | varies some actors add monthly rental |
| Max concurrency | 500 | RAM-limited 8 GB on free caps it near 2 runs |
| Residential proxies | 7 providers auto-routed | $8/GB billed on top of actor cost |
| Output formats | JSON · HTML · CSV · Markdown · Plain Text | JSON · CSV · Excel · XML |
| Pay per success | Yes anti-bot stubs not billed | No actor-start and empty runs still charge |
| Support | Live chat, email, Discord | Community chat from $29 Starter |
The real cost per request
Get structured Google Maps data in one API request. Each search costs 10 credits and covers the businesses returned in that response, with no separate compute or proxy charges.
| Configuration | HasData | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| Google SERP structured JSON | $0.83–$2.95 per 1k API requests | $1.80–4.50 per 1k results, plus actor-start fees |
| Google Maps places, ratings, contacts | $0.83–$2.95 per 1k API requests | $1.50–4.00 per 1k results |
| Amazon products price, offers, reviews | $0.83–$2.95 per 1k API requests | $3.00–5.00 per 1k results |
| Instagram profiles, posts | $0.83–$2.95 per 1k API requests | $1.50–2.70 per 1k results |
| Web scraping any URL, JS, residential | $0.08–$4.43 per 1k requests, static HTML to residential + JS | compute units $0.13–0.20 per CU + proxy |
| Paid plans and volume rates subscription terms | from $59/mo larger plans lower the cost per request | $999/mo Gold discount tier |
| Feature | HasData | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 1,000 credits every month | $0 $5 credit, renews monthly |
| Chat support | Included from free tier | 🔒 $29 ↑ Starter, community below |
| Lowest published unit rate | Growth $0.83 per 1k Maps requests, monthly billing | 🔒 $999 ↑ Gold Store discount |
| Account manager | $249 ↑ Growth | 🔒 $999 ↑ Business |
| Annual discount | 2 mo free all plans | 10% off all plans |
Response time by site
Response time per request from 2026 benchmarks. HasData is a synchronous API; Apify figures are wall time of the smallest possible actor run via their sync endpoint.
What developers actually say
The patterns G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot reviewers keep flagging in HasData and Apify.
"HasData delivers exactly what we need: speed and comprehensive search features. It's the fastest API we've used in this space. Plus, their customer support is fantastic."
- –Confusing credit billing 255 reviewsCompute units and per-event charges make spend hard to predict, with reports of unexpected overages
- –Steep learning curve 191 reviewsConfiguring actors, inputs, and the platform takes time before the first clean result
- –Slow or scripted support 102 reviewsBilling disputes and broken actors flagged as slow to resolve
- –Actors break or go stale 46 reviewsCommunity actors get abandoned or stop matching the target site, with no single owner to fix them
- –Synchronous API, no cold startA request returns parsed JSON in about 1.9s. No container to spin up, no run to poll.
- –One vendor, one formatEvery endpoint is first-party and follows the same response conventions. No actor to vet, no creator to chase when it breaks.
- –Predictable request costsEach API has a fixed credit cost per request. Larger plans lower your cost per request. No separate compute or proxy charges for Google Maps searches.
- –Blocked requests cost nothingFailed and anti-bot requests are refunded. Apify charges actor-start and empty runs regardless.
Built for production scraping, not toy demos
Production scraping needs more than an API, and HasData includes the full stack on every plan.
7 proxy providers, auto-routed
Residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies routed automatically by target. No manual pool management, no per-IP billing.
50+ named APIs return structured JSON
Google SERP, Amazon, Zillow, and 50+ more endpoints. Send a URL, get parsed JSON. No CSS selectors, no parser to maintain.
Every scrape saved automatically
Every scraping job is saved automatically, so nothing gets lost. Download results whenever you need them or pipe them straight into your pipeline via webhook.
Connects to Make, Zapier, n8n, MCP, CLI
Webhooks, scheduled jobs, AI agent workflows, and native integrations with the tools your team already uses.
REST API with SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go
Full API reference, SDK for three runtimes, pay-per-success billing. Start with a curl call, scale to production without changing the interface.
Up to 500 concurrent requests
Auto-scaling with no servers to manage and no queue to maintain. Public plans reach 500 concurrent requests, custom plans scale beyond that.
Flexible Pricing
Start for free. Scale as you grow.
Free
Startup
Basic
RecommendedGrowth
Monthly credit allowance
Custom price based on required volume
Past 20M credits a month, or terms the self-serve plans do not cover. We shape the contract around your workload. Past 20M credits a month, or need terms the self-serve plans do not cover? We shape the contract, concurrency, and support around your workload.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from teams considering HasData for production scraping.
HasData gives 1,000 credits every month with no card required, and the allowance renews on the same date each month. Unused credits do not carry over. Apify gives a $5 platform credit that renews each month.
Yes. Start with 1,000 free credits and run HasData against the exact sites you scrape today. For larger stress tests, contact us. We can extend the trial to match your current Apify usage so you can benchmark at real volume before moving.
Apify is a marketplace where you rent actors, containerized jobs built by different creators, each with its own pricing, input schema, and output format. HasData is a single REST API. You send a request and get parsed JSON back in about 1.9s, with no actor to spin up, no run to poll, and one consistent format across every endpoint.
No. Apify's marketplace wins on long-tail reach, but HasData's APIs and available no-code scrapers are first-party and maintained. The Web Scraping API covers pages without a dedicated API.
Yes, by a wide margin on single requests. In our benchmarks a HasData Google search returns in 1.7s while the equivalent Apify actor takes about 8s, and the gap reaches 30× on Indeed and Booking. Apify actors run as batch jobs that cold-start a container for 8 to 60 seconds before returning data. HasData answers synchronously.
Get structured Google Maps data in one API request. Each search costs 10 credits and covers the businesses returned in that response, with no separate compute or proxy charges. That is $0.83–$2.95 per 1,000 API requests on monthly plans with fully used allocations. An API request can return multiple records, so this is not a per-place price comparison.
You don't pay for it. HasData retries on its own and refunds failed or anti-bot requests. Apify charges an actor-start fee and bills compute for runs that return nothing, so empty results still cost money.
Yes. Public plans reach 20M credits a month and 500 concurrent requests, and custom plans scale beyond that. Apify concurrency is bounded by actor memory, and the free plan's 8 GB ceiling caps you near two parallel runs.
Yes. Share the website URL and the exact fields you need, and our team will scope and build the scraper. You get a first-party endpoint with support behind it, instead of renting a community actor that may go unmaintained.
