Apify vs. Exa: which gives AI agents better access to web data?
Choose your AI agent’s web tools based on actual evidence. Compare what Apify and Exa returned, what they missed, how long each task took, and how much it cost.
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Parallel’s Extract API vs. Apify’s Web Fetch: how agents read the web
The real choice is not marketplace vs. retrieval API, but whether your agent primarily needs fast, search-oriented web retrieval or direct, controllable extraction from the source.
Moving house, Apify-style, with Martina Bovanova
Somewhere in the middle of building Apify's new office, Martina developed very serious opinions about millimeters, sockets, and which way doors should open. Her story of memories, mishaps, and a miracle she insists was planned.
ChatGPT web scraping guide for 2026
You need the data, but collecting it has become a chore. Let ChatGPT and Apify handle the work for you.
What is Pinecone and why use it with your LLMs?
Pinecone is one of the best-known purpose-built vector databases, and it now positions itself more broadly as an AI knowledge platform. Here's what it does and when it earns its place in your stack.
How to build an AliExpress price monitor
Build a tracker that scrapes a category on a schedule and logs every run into Google Sheets, no code required.
How Adside unified three ad libraries and pulled 133k live ads for under $200
AI agents that run paid ads need to know what the competition is doing. Adside built AdsSpy to pull any competitor's live ads from the Meta, Google, and LinkedIn ad libraries into one view, then pointed the same pipeline at all 6,055 Y Combinator companies in one overnight run.
From hackathon winner to building community in San Francisco
Petros Hong won his first Apify hackathon. Four months later, he joined the team. Now he's building San Francisco's developer community from the ground up, one hackathon and after-party at a time.
Build a live RAG pipeline with Apify, n8n, and Qdrant
Crawl a site with Apify, sync it into Qdrant from n8n, and re-embed only the pages that changed. Step by step, with measured runs and real cost figures.
Top AI data collection tools for building model-ready datasets
Get data that's structured, current, and easy to process with these 8 data collection tools for training, fine-tuning, or enriching AI models.
Real-time product data for AI agents: Claude with and without Apify MCP
A shopping agent is only as good as the data underneath it. This is a side-by-side test of Claude with and without Apify MCP.
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