A 
Apify
A marketplace of ready-made scrapers plus the cloud to run them.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep paying — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the automation job, so this one still earns its $49/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- AI agents can browse a site without a purpose-built scraper. OpenAI, March 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Browse AI.
- What the call is worth $588/yr
- $49/mo at the entry paid tier — $588 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- March 1, 2025
- List price
- $49/mo
- Per year
- $588
The backstory
An agent browsing one page is not the same as extracting a million rows past anti-bot defences. Apify sells thousands of maintained actors for specific sites and the proxy infrastructure behind them, and has repositioned as an MCP-connected tool layer that agents call rather than replace.
Escape hatches
F 
Firecrawl Simpler for generic crawling.
firecrawl.dev open_in_new B 
Browse AI No-code point-and-click scraping.
browse.ai open_in_new1 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.