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Apify or Stophy? Pick by how much you want to build

Apify runs Actors, programs you pick from its store or write yourself, and bills for compute and results. Stophy is one API with 137 endpoints, and most calls cost $0.0015.

Pick Apify if

  • You need a site Stophy doesn't cover. Pick an Actor from Apify's store, or write your own.
  • You want to run your own code. Actors are programs that take JSON input, and they can call each other.
  • You want free usage every month. Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month, with no card. Stophy gives $5 once.

Pick Stophy if

  • You want one price per call. Apify bills compute at $0.2 per unit on Starter, where a unit is 1 GB of RAM for an hour, plus what each Actor charges. Most Stophy calls cost $0.0015.
  • You'd rather not pick and maintain scrapers. Every Stophy endpoint takes JSON input and returns the same envelope, and the agent can find the right one itself.
  • You compare per call. Apify's Instagram Scraper charges $2.30 for 1,000 results. A Stophy Instagram profile call returns the profile and its posts for $0.0015.
  • Calls fail. A Stophy call that fails or finds nothing costs nothing.

Try it with no key

Terminal
curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"username":"khaby.lame"}'

You get the TikTok profile as JSON, free, up to 50 calls a day. New accounts start with $5.

Switch your calls

ApifyStophy
Instagram Scraperinstagram.profile, instagram.post
Google Trends Scrapergoogle.trends.related, google.trends.interest
Website Content Crawlerweb.crawl
An Actor you wroteNo match. Stophy runs no custom code.

Checked November 2, 2026 on apify.com/pricing, docs.apify.com/platform/actors.

Questions and answers.

Start with $5 in free calls.

No card. A call that fails or finds nothing costs nothing.