| Description | Apify is a cloud platform hosting a marketplace of 69,000+ prebuilt scraping and automation tools called Actors, letting you extract real-time web data, monitor competitors, generate leads, and feed clean data into AI agents, LLMs, and RAG pipelines. It serves developers, data teams, marketers, and businesses who want ready-to-run scrapers (or to build and deploy their own) rather than coding and maintaining scrapers from scratch. Its key differentiator is the sheer breadth of the Actor store combined with managed proxies, scaling, scheduling, and MCP connectors that plug web data directly into AI workflows. | Plaid is the financial infrastructure powering 8,000+ apps and services including Venmo, Robinhood, and Coinbase. From bank account verification to transaction data, Plaid makes it easy for fintechs to connect to user accounts. |