5 Best CoreClaw Alternatives in 2026, Compared

The best CoreClaw alternatives in 2026 are Scrape.ly, Apify, Outscraper, Octoparse and Browse AI. Scrape.ly comes first because it runs the same ready-made-scraper model with more headroom: 560+ maintained scrapers, 32 parallel runs from $19 every 4 weeks, a free $5 credit that renews every month, and an 80% share for the developers who build the scrapers.

CoreClaw sells ready-made scrapers it calls Workers, billed per successful result. That's a good model, and it's the one Scrape.ly and Apify use too. The differences are in the details: how reliable the scrapers are, how many you can run at once, what you can try for free and how much of the money reaches the people who maintain them. Every competitor fact below was checked on 27 October 2026 on the vendor's own site.

Why teams look for CoreClaw alternatives

CoreClaw is run by Apex DataWorks Limited in Hong Kong. Its about page lists "100+ Ready-Made Workers" across "18+ Supported Platforms", and its pricing page has four self-serve plans: Free, Starter, Pro and Business. These are the points teams raise when they compare it with other platforms:

• Published success rates. Each Worker page shows its run stats. On 27 October 2026, CoreClaw's Google Maps Scraper showed 74.3K runs with a success rate of 48.63%, and its Google Search Scraper 72.5K runs at 66.66%. Failed results aren't billed, but a failed run still costs time.
• Parallel runs. The plans allow 2, 5, 10 and 50 Workers at once, from Free to Business. Scheduled jobs and big batches queue behind that limit.
• A one-time free credit. New accounts get "$3 on signup", and "Free users can export up to 700 results."
• A 10% share for developers. CoreClaw's code monetization page pays builders a "10% revenue share on every successful record". The share decides how many developers build and keep scrapers up to date.
• Two entry prices. The pricing page shows Starter at $3 a month, while CoreClaw's own Apify comparison page says plans start at $9 a month. Our CoreClaw pricing breakdown covers every plan and rate.

What to look for in CoreClaw alternatives

1. Maintained scrapers with a visible track record. A scraper that fails half its runs costs you time even when failures are free.
2. Enough parallel runs. If you scrape many cities, keywords or accounts, the number of runs you can start at once sets how fast a job finishes.
3. A free credit that comes back. You should be able to test, and keep a small recurring job running, without paying.
4. Breadth. The sites you need next quarter should already have a scraper.
5. An API and an AI-agent path. The same scrapers should work from code, from a schedule and from Claude or Cursor.
6. A fair deal for the people who build scrapers. More money for builders means more scrapers, and more of them kept working.

CoreClaw alternatives compared

The sources for every cell are the pricing pages linked in each section below.

1. Scrape.ly: the same model, with more room to run

Scrape.ly is a web data platform built around a Store of ready-made scrapers called Actors. You pick one, fill in a form or load a preset, set a maximum cost and run it in the cloud. Most Actors charge a fixed price per result with compute, proxies and browser included, so you can read the price on the Actor page before you start.

Here's how it lines up against CoreClaw on the points above:

What that gives you:

• Maintained Actors. Every Store Actor is maintained by its publisher, and each Store page shows its recent success rate, so you can check the Google Maps Reviews Scraper or the Google Maps Scraper before you rely on it.
• Throughput from the first paid plan. Starter runs 32 Actors at once and Scale 128. A job split into 32 runs, one per city, starts in a single wave; at 5 parallel runs it would take seven.
• Free every month. The Free plan's $5 credit renews monthly. At $0.36 per 1,000, that's about 14,000 Google Maps reviews a month at no cost.
• Breadth. Beyond Google Maps, the Store covers Amazon, LinkedIn, Indeed, Instagram, TikTok, Zillow, Airbnb, search engines and generic crawlers like the Website Content Crawler.
• Code, schedules and agents. Every Actor runs from the REST API, the Python and JavaScript clients, an automation on a schedule, or an AI assistant through Scrape.ly's hosted MCP server.
• Builders keep 80%. If you write scrapers, publish them in the Store and keep 80% of the event fees. The JavaScript and Python SDKs are built on Crawlee and keep the Apify SDK API, so scrapers written with Playwright, Puppeteer or the usual Python libraries fit right in.

Scrape.ly vs CoreClaw, in short: the same pay-per-result idea, with more than six times the parallel runs on the entry plan, a free credit that comes back every month and builders who earn eight times the share.

A real run

Here's a recent run of the Google Maps Reviews Scraper from 26 October 2026: the 5 newest reviews of Apple Fifth Avenue in New York, with reviewer details switched off. It returned 5 reviews in 8 seconds. We replaced reviewer names with [reviewer 1] and so on, because reviewers are private people.

Each item also carries the place's name, rating (4.4), review count (22,765), category, address and place ID, so one run gives you the review and its context.

Best for: teams that want CoreClaw's ready-made convenience with more parallel runs, a renewing free credit, a bigger catalog and an API and MCP path for every scraper.

2. Apify

Apify runs the Apify Store, the model CoreClaw compares itself with on its own pricing page. You run ready-made Actors from a form or the API, or deploy your own.

The Free plan includes $5 to spend each month; Starter costs $19 a month, Scale $199 and Business $999, each with that amount to spend in the Store or on your own Actors. Most Store Actors charge per event. On paid plans, Apify's pricing FAQ says "the excess usage will be added to your next invoice", and "unused usage credits are not rolled over to the next billing cycle."

Best for: running an Actor that only exists in the Apify Store. Because Scrape.ly keeps the Apify SDK API and its clients are drop-in replacements, most Apify Actors run on Scrape.ly unchanged; see the Scrape.ly vs Apify comparison and our Apify alternatives guide.

3. Outscraper

Outscraper focuses on Google Maps and local business data: places, reviews, photos, emails and contacts. There's no subscription. Each service has a free tier for the first 500 results, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000 results and $1 per 1,000 above that, and the tiers reset every 30 days.

Best for: occasional Google Maps exports that stay under 500 results a month. Past the free tier, Scrape.ly's Google Maps reviews cost $0.36 per 1,000 against Outscraper's $3; see the Scrape.ly vs Outscraper comparison and our Outscraper alternatives list.

4. Octoparse

Octoparse is a point-and-click scraper: you build tasks in a desktop app or start from a template. The Free plan includes 10 tasks that run on your own computer. Cloud runs, scheduling and its 500+ preset templates start with Standard at $83 a month ($69 billed yearly), which allows up to 3 concurrent cloud processes. Professional costs $299 a month ($249 billed yearly) for up to 20.

Best for: people who prefer to build scrapers visually on a desktop. If you'd rather pick a maintained scraper and run 32 jobs at once from $19, Scrape.ly is the shorter path; the Scrape.ly vs Octoparse comparison has the details.

5. Browse AI

Browse AI lets you record a "robot" in your browser or start from a prebuilt one, then run it on a schedule or use it to monitor a page for changes. The Free plan includes 50 credits a month, "up to 50 pages and/or 500 rows of data per month", and 2 domains. Personal costs $48 a month billed monthly or $19 a month billed annually, and Professional $87 a month billed monthly.

Best for: watching a handful of specific pages for changes. For bulk data from common sites, Scrape.ly's ready-made Actors don't count domains, and the best web scraping tools guide covers more options.

How to switch from CoreClaw to Scrape.ly

Moving a CoreClaw job takes about as long as reading this section.

1. Sign up free. No card. Create an API token under Settings → API & Integrations.
2. Find the matching Actor. Search the Store for the site and data, for example "google maps reviews". The Actor page shows the input fields, the output and the price per result.
3. Run it once from the form. Load a preset, change it to one of your CoreClaw inputs, set a maximum cost and click Start. Compare the fields with what your code expects.
4. Swap the API call. CoreClaw's API sits at openapi.coreclaw.com/api/v2 with a Bearer key. On Scrape.ly, a short run fits the synchronous endpoint, which returns the items directly:

curl -X POST "https://api.scrape.ly/v2/actors/cornerledger~google-maps-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCRAPELY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/Apple+Fifth+Avenue+New+York"}], "maxReviews": 5, "reviewsSort": "newest", "personalData": false, "language": "en"}'

Or in Python (pip install scrapely-client-python):

import os
from scrapely_client import ScrapelyClient

client = ScrapelyClient(os.environ["SCRAPELY_TOKEN"], api_url="https://api.scrape.ly")

run = client.actor("cornerledger/google-maps-reviews-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/Apple+Fifth+Avenue+New+York"}],
        "maxReviews": 5,
        "reviewsSort": "newest",
        "personalData": False,
        "language": "en",
    }
)
for review in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(review["stars"], review["publishedAtDate"], review.get("text"))

5. Schedule it. Save the input and create an automation with On a schedule as the trigger, then send each run's results to Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook. Our guide to scheduling web scraping walks through it.
6. Give it to your AI agent. Add the hosted MCP server limited to this Actor, https://mcp.scrape.ly?actors=cornerledger/google-maps-reviews-scraper, for example in Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http scrapely https://mcp.scrape.ly. Then ask: "Get the 20 newest Google reviews of Apple Fifth Avenue and summarize the complaints." Our Google Maps MCP guide covers every client.

If you built your own Workers on CoreClaw, your scraping code can come with you: wrap it as an Actor with the Scrape.ly SDK for Python or JavaScript, publish it in the Store, and keep 80% of the event fees users pay for it.

FAQ

What are the best CoreClaw alternatives?

Scrape.ly, Apify, Outscraper, Octoparse and Browse AI. Scrape.ly is the closest match to CoreClaw's ready-made model and adds 32 parallel runs from $19 every 4 weeks, a $5 credit every month and 560+ maintained scrapers.

Is CoreClaw an Apify alternative?

Yes. CoreClaw follows the Apify model of a marketplace of ready-made scrapers billed per result, and its pricing page compares itself with Apify. Scrape.ly works the same way and runs most Apify Actors unchanged.

Is CoreClaw free?

CoreClaw gives new accounts $3 of credit on signup, and free users can export up to 700 results. Scrape.ly's Free plan gives you $5 of credit every month, with no card.

Is CoreClaw legit?

CoreClaw is operated by Apex DataWorks Limited, a Hong Kong company, lists 100+ Workers and publishes the run count and success rate of each one. Check the stats of the Worker you need before you rely on it.

Which CoreClaw alternative is best for Google Maps reviews?

Scrape.ly. Its Google Maps Reviews Scraper charges $0.36 per 1,000 reviews with platform usage included, against $1.20 to $3.00 on CoreClaw and $3 per 1,000 on Outscraper past its free tier. Our guide to scraping Google Maps reviews has a full walkthrough.