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Why buy an actor instead of building one?

ScraperFleet actor vs. building in-house

A production scraper is more than a script: anti-bot handling, proxies, retries, input validation, dataset schemas, and monitoring. Each ScraperFleet actor ships with that work done and a version history you can point to. You pay per result, and a failing input costs nothing.

ScraperFleet vs. the Apify Store crowd

The Store is full of single-purpose toys that break on real inputs. ScraperFleet actors are built for continuous use: documented inputs, honest failure modes (a no-results run tells you why and charges nothing), and published source on GitHub for every actor.

When to use MCP actors

If your workflow lives in an AI agent, the MCP variants expose each actor's capabilities as tools the agent can call directly, with pay-per-event pricing. If you just want data in bulk, use the plain scrapers.