Honest comparisons.
We name what each alternative does well first, then where Ollagraph goes further. No straw men.
Ollagraph vs Firecrawl
Firecrawl popularized clean markdown for LLM workflows. Ollagraph matches that quality and ships a complete intelligence layer, vertical actors, and browser automation alongside.
Ollagraph vs ScraperAPI
ScraperAPI nailed developer ergonomics — a clean API, fast onboarding, simple pricing. Ollagraph matches that simplicity and ships structured output, an intelligence layer, and vertical actors in the same API.
Ollagraph vs Octoparse
Octoparse pioneered no-code visual scraping for non-developers. Ollagraph is the API-first alternative for teams who'd rather call an endpoint than configure a desktop workflow.
Ollagraph vs Diffbot
Diffbot built automatic AI extraction and a web-scale Knowledge Graph. Ollagraph overlaps on automatic extraction and adds scraping control, vertical actors, and agent-native tooling at a developer-friendly entry point.
Ollagraph vs Zyte
Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) is the Scrapy company — managed crawl infrastructure, a smart proxy/unblocker, and automatic extraction for large engineering teams. Ollagraph is the consolidated single-API alternative.
Ollagraph vs ScrapingBee
ScrapingBee is a clean, focused scraping API with JS rendering and proxy rotation. Ollagraph matches the scraping core and adds an intelligence layer, vertical actors, and agent tooling in the same API.
Ollagraph vs Crawlbase
Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) pairs a scraping API with crawling and optional result storage. Ollagraph overlaps on scraping and crawling, adds intelligence and agent tooling — and deliberately does not retain your scraped content.
Ollagraph vs Apify
Apify pioneered the actor marketplace and runs a deep catalog of community and official scrapers. Ollagraph delivers comparable coverage from one curated, in-house catalog — at a fraction of the cost, behind one predictable bill, with failed calls refunded.
Ollagraph vs Tavily
Tavily is a search API tuned for AI agents and RAG — ask a question, get ranked sources and a synthesized answer. Ollagraph is the layer underneath: fetch, render, extract, and enrich the actual pages, behind one key.
Ollagraph vs Jina AI Reader
Jina AI's Reader (r.jina.ai) turns a URL into clean markdown for LLMs — fast, generous, often free. Ollagraph matches the markdown and adds managed anti-bot, structured extraction, intelligence, and vertical actors for production workloads.
Ollagraph vs Browse AI
Browse AI lets non-coders build 'robots' that scrape and monitor sites with point-and-click and change alerts. Ollagraph is the API-first alternative for engineers and AI agents who'd rather call an endpoint.