Why it comes up: Web scrape API if you want pages as markdown more than 650 social sources.
Stands out: Directory searches across 240M+ professional profiles cost no credits, so a recruiter can explore and refine a candidate search in ChatGPT or Claude and spend credits only when pulling full profile and work contact details. Every account gets 1,000 free credits a month with no card, shared with the scrape, crawl and search API.
Watch out: Hobby is 5,000 credits a month. Search costs 2 credits per 10 results, Directory profile and contact lookups also draw on credits, and extra credits come in $5 increments. Directory finds and researches people; it has no outreach sequencing or ATS of its own.
Best for
- Recruiters sourcing candidates by title, company and location from inside ChatGPT or Claude
- Builders who need markdown or JSON from URLs
- Agents that call Firecrawl over MCP
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Why it comes up: Actor marketplace if you need custom crawlers rather than a hosted MCP.
Stands out: Hosted MCP at mcp.apify.com plus a Store of ready-made Actors, on a prepaid usage meter with overage billed on paid plans.
Watch out: Unused prepaid usage expires each cycle. Usage beyond Starter's $19 is billed on the next invoice, and residential proxy costs extra per GB.
Best for
- Builders running scrapers and agents in the cloud
- GTM teams buying ready-made Store Actors
- Desks that want MCP to search and run Actors
4.8 on Capterra from 538 reviews
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$4/1k searches Free tier MCP API
Why it comes up: Neural web search if search, not social-source MCP, is the job.
Stands out: Hosted MCP server on the free plan, with people and company indexes alongside the web index.
Watch out: Pay-as-you-go has no monthly floor, but Deep Search, Agent runs and phone lookups are billed separately. Free is a small monthly credit, not unlimited.
Best for
- Builders putting web search inside coding or research agents
- GTM teams enriching people and companies through an API
- Teams that want search inside Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT
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$69/mo Free tier 14 day free trial MCP API
Why it comes up: Cloud bots if you want prebuilt LinkedIn and web phantoms.
Stands out: Hosted MCP at mcp.phantombuster.com plus 100+ Phantoms that run without your browser open.
Watch out: You act through your own social accounts, so limits and bans are on you. Execution hours, slots, and email credits all cap out. Exports on the trial are 10 rows.
Best for
- Growth teams automating LinkedIn and Sales Nav lists
- Agencies running several Phantoms in parallel
- Builders wiring HubSpot, n8n, Zapier, Make, or MCP
4.5 on Capterra from 64 reviews
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