Crawlee Cloud
open-source platform alternative to Apify.
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About
What is Crawlee Cloud?
Crawlee Cloud is an open-source, MIT-licensed platform for running and
scaling web scraping actors on your own infrastructure. It's a drop-in
replacement for Apify's hosted platform — same SDK, same actor model —
but self-hosted, so your data never leaves your servers and your costs
scale with your hardware, not a per-usage bill.
- Drop-in Apify SDK compatibility — existing Apify actors run unmodified
- Autoscaling runners — Docker-isolated, deployed on your own cloud (DigitalOcean, bare metal, wherever)
- Full data ownership — no third party ever touches your scraped data
- 3–3.3x lower compute cost in production, measured against equivalent Apify usage
Why fund this?
Crawlee Cloud is currently maintained by a single developer. Funds raised
here go directly toward:
- Hosting the public demo environment (autoscaling droplets, S3/MinIO storage)
- CI/CD infrastructure for automated testing across releases
- Documentation hosting and tooling
- Sustaining active maintenance so this stays a viable alternative to
commercial scraping platforms
Get involved
- ⭐ Star and use the project: github.com/crawlee-cloud/crawlee-cloud
- 💬 Join discussions, report bugs, or contribute code
- 💸 Back us here to help fund infrastructure and keep development sustainable
Our team
Amine Mbarki
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