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2 Best Open Source Apify Alternatives

A curated collection of the 2 best open source and self-hosted alternatives to Apify in 2026.

Looking for a free, privacy-friendly, or self-hosted replacement for Apify in 2026? The top open-source alternative is Firecrawl — API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page..

Other highly rated open-source Apify alternatives include Crawl4AI.

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API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page.

Firecrawl preview

API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page.

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Open-source web crawler and scraper that produces clean, structured output optimized for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Supports async crawling, CSS/XPath/LLM extraction, and stealth browser control.

Crawl4AI preview

Open-source web crawler and scraper that produces clean, structured output optimized for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Supports async crawling, CSS/XPath/LLM extraction, and stealth browser control.

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