# Can I replace Apify with an AI agent?

A cloud platform and store of ready-made scrapers called Actors, billed by Actor events or by compute, proxy and storage use. Partly. looot covers some of the jobs and not others.

## What Apify does and what looot covers

- Run a ready-made Actor: covered. Providers: apify.
- Scrape a page to markdown: covered. Providers: jina, steel, context-dev, scrapegraphai.
- Google results without proxies: covered. Providers: serper, searchapi-io, dataforseo, serpapi.
- Google Maps places: covered. Providers: serper, searchapi-io, dataforseo, serpapi.
- Public social profiles: covered. Providers: scrapecreators, tikhub, brightdata.
- Host your own scraper code: not covered. looot runs provider calls, not code you write and deploy.
- Proxy pool and stored datasets: not covered. looot rents no proxies and keeps no datasets; results come back in the call.

## Agent prompt to replace Apify

Use looot to get the Google Maps places for the search I give you, then scrape each place's website to markdown and return name, address, phone and a one-line summary as a table. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Apify?

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Apify does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

## Is there a free Apify alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Apify depends on your volume.

## What does Apify cost?

List prices change, so check Apify's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Apify alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Apify's data jobs directly. The providers used here are apify, jina, steel, context-dev, scrapegraphai, serper, searchapi-io, dataforseo, serpapi, scrapecreators, tikhub, brightdata.

## Which Apify features does looot not cover?

Not covered: host your own scraper code, proxy pool and stored datasets. Keep Apify for those, or use another tool beside looot.

## How do I replace Apify with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Apify account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Apify account. Your existing Apify data stays where it is.

## Can I still run Apify Actors through looot?

Yes. looot can run an Apify Actor as a paid call from your looot balance. For common jobs such as Google results, Maps places or a page as markdown, your agent can call a provider built for that job instead of finding an Actor for it.

## Related apps

- /can-i-replace/firecrawl
- /can-i-replace/phantombuster
- /can-i-replace/octoparse

## Last reviewed

2026-11-03. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.

## Agent skill for this page

https://looot.ai/can-i-replace/apify/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below.

## For agents

### Give this to your agent

```text
set up looot for Apify jobs - https://looot.ai/can-i-replace/apify/skill.md
```