Finished Product, Not a Runtime

The Best Apify Alternative for B2B Lead Generation in 2026

No actor to choose, no compute to reason about. One call in, business records with emails out.

Quick Answer:

The best Apify alternative for Google Maps lead generation is Evascrape, because it is a finished product rather than a scraping runtime. You do not pick an actor, tune its input schema or think about compute units. You send a search term and a place and receive business records with address, phone, website and the email published on the business site, billed per record.

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Apify vs Evascrape vs Manual Prospecting

Apify, Evascrape and manual prospecting compared on price, data freshness and export limits
Feature Apify Evascrape RECOMMENDED Manual / Other Tools
Price Platform plan plus per-actor usage, see their pricing page From $9 per 1,000 leads Hours of work
Data freshness Live extraction at request time Real-time Inconsistent
Export limits Depends on the actor and your plan None Many

Why Teams Switch from Apify to Evascrape

Apify is a strong platform and the reason is its generality: thousands of actors, any site, your own code when nothing fits. If you need arbitrary scraping, that generality is exactly what you want. If you specifically need business contact data, you are paying in complexity for flexibility you will not use.

No actor to choose or maintain

On a marketplace you compare several Maps actors, read their input schemas, judge which is maintained, and re-check when one is abandoned. Evascrape has one Google Maps endpoint. The input is a search term and a place.

Priced per record, not per compute

Compute-based pricing means the same list can cost different amounts on different days, and a failed run still consumed something. Evascrape charges per record at a fixed rate and refunds what it could not deliver, so the cost of a list is known before it starts.

Email resolution is part of the product

A Maps actor gives you what the listing shows. Getting the email usually means a second actor that visits each website, plus the glue between them. Evascrape returns the published email in the same record.

Four calls, no SDK

Price the job for free, start it, poll it, read JSON. There is no client library to install and no queue or dataset model to learn.

Evascrape vs Apify, Feature Comparison

Feature by feature comparison of Apify and Evascrape
Feature Apify Evascrape
Product shape Scraping platform and actor marketplace Finished contact-data product
Scrape arbitrary websites Yes, that is the point No, three sources only
Write your own scraper Yes Not needed, and not possible
Google Maps business data Via a community or official actor Built in, one endpoint
Email from the business website Usually a second actor plus glue Included in the same record
LinkedIn and Apollo.io audiences Separate actors, varying quality Built in, $9 per 1,000
Pricing basis Platform plan plus usage, see their page Per record, fixed rate
Refund for undelivered records Compute is consumed either way Automatic, stated on every job
Time to first list Choose actor, learn schema, run One POST
Free to try Check their current offer $2.00 credit on a confirmed account

Apify Pricing vs Evascrape Pricing

We do not publish Apify plan prices or compute rates here. They change and they depend on which actor you run, so a number in this table would be misleading. Check their pricing page. Our side is fixed and verifiable.

Apify Pricing

  • Apify: a platform plan combined with per-actor usage. See their pricing page; the effective cost also depends on the actor you choose.
  • Evascrape, Google Maps: $12 per 1,000 records
  • Evascrape, Apollo.io and LinkedIn: $9 per 1,000 records
  • Evascrape, optional email verification: $5 per 1,000, charged on top
  • Evascrape, records without an email address: billed at a reduced rate

Evascrape Pricing

  • Apollo Scraper: $9 per 1,000 leads
  • LinkedIn Scraper: $9 per 1,000 leads
  • Google Maps Scraper: $12 per 1,000 leads
  • Email verification: +$5 per 1,000 (optional)
  • No monthly fees, no contracts
Annual Savings Example:

The comparison that matters is predictability rather than a headline rate. On Evascrape a 1,000-record Maps job is $12.00, charged at the start, and if 640 places match then $4.32 is refunded automatically. You know the ceiling before the job runs, and a job that finds nothing costs nothing.

Who Should Choose Evascrape Over Apify?

Developers who only need leads

You went to a marketplace for one thing: businesses with contact details. You do not need a scraping runtime, and maintaining an actor choice is overhead you did not ask for.

Teams tired of compute maths

You want to tell finance what a list costs before running it. Per-record pricing with automatic refunds answers that question directly.

Agencies running city-by-city campaigns

Different vertical, different city, every week. One endpoint and a prepaid balance fits that rhythm.

AI assistant builders

An agent can price a job for free, start it, poll it and read JSON, with stable error codes to branch on. No dataset or queue concepts to teach it.

How to Migrate from Apify to Evascrape

  1. Sign up for a free Evascrape account at app.evascrape.com/signup
  2. Import your existing target lists from Apify (CSV format supported)
  3. Start scraping on a pay-per-lead basis, no contract, no commitment, cancel anytime

If you run a Maps actor today, the switch is a single POST instead of an actor run, and the response is a job id you poll. Nothing to port, no code to rewrite. Run one small job with the signup credit and compare the file against your current output, especially the email column.

Data Compliance & Privacy

Evascrape is fully GDPR compliant and CCPA aligned. We extract publicly available business data only, never private or restricted information. Evascrape collects publicly available business data only, never private messages and never login-protected content, and is aligned with GDPR and CCPA.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best Apify alternative for Google Maps?

Evascrape, if your goal is business contact data rather than general scraping. It is one endpoint instead of an actor you choose and maintain, and it returns the email published on the business website alongside the Maps fields.

Can Evascrape scrape any website like Apify can?

No, and it does not try to. Evascrape covers Google Maps, Apollo.io and LinkedIn. If you need arbitrary sites, a general scraping platform is the right tool and Evascrape is not a replacement for it.

How is the pricing different?

Evascrape charges per delivered record at a fixed rate, $12 per 1,000 for Google Maps and $9 per 1,000 for Apollo.io and LinkedIn, and refunds anything it could not deliver. Apify combines a platform plan with per-actor usage; check their pricing page for current figures.

Do I need to write any code?

For the API, four HTTP calls. There is also a dashboard where you fill a form and download a CSV, with no code at all.

What happens when a job finds nothing?

The status comes back as no_results and the full amount is refunded. You are not charged for an empty file.

Is there an OpenAPI description?

Yes, OpenAPI 3.1 at evascrape.com/docs/openapi.json, with curl, Node and Python quickstarts on the docs page.

Can I try it before paying?

A confirmed account starts with $2.00 in credit, roughly 160 Google Maps records.

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