COMPARISON

ZipLead vs Apify.

A developer platform hosting thousands of scrapers, including Google Places crawlers.

	Apify	ZipLead
Starting price	The Google Maps actor bills from $1.50 per 1,000 places on the $999/mo Business tier, $4 per 1,000 on the free tier, with place details, contacts, reviews and images billed as separate add-ons. Platform plans are $0, $19, $199 and $999 a month, and the monthly fee is prepaid usage rather than a license fee (checked on apify.com/pricing and the actor's own pricing tab Sep 27 2026)	Free, then $59/mo
Built for	Developers and technical teams building custom data pipelines	Anyone who sells to small businesses, technical or not
Pricing	Usage-based, roughly $1.50 per 1,000 places plus platform costs	Free tier, $59/mo Operator, $179/mo Command
Data scope	Enormous. Thousands of actors across the whole web	US local businesses, scored for outreach readiness
Time to first list	Fast if you can code. Slower if you cannot	Under 60 seconds, no configuration
Best fit when	Building a custom data product or internal tool	Running outreach today without writing code

WHEN APIFY IS THE RIGHT CALL

If you write code and want control, Apify is the stronger choice and it is not close. The per-place price is low, the API is solid, and you can scrape far more than local business listings. Anyone building a data product on top should look there first.

WHEN ZIPLEAD IS THE RIGHT CALL

If you do not want to configure an actor, parse JSON, or maintain a pipeline, that flexibility is overhead. ZipLead is a finished workflow rather than a building block. Search a ZIP, get a scored list, start contacting people.

WHAT APIFY DOES BETTER

Where Apify beats ZipLead.

Specific, and checkable on their own pages. If one of these is the thing you need, buy theirs.

Worldwide, any search term, any area. Nothing is shaped like a US ZIP code.
Their actor page says it gets past Google Maps showing no more than 120 places for one area. ZipLead has no equivalent claim.
Far cheaper per record above a few thousand rows. $1.50 to $4 per 1,000 places beats any flat monthly fee at volume.
Named-person enrichment ZipLead does not attempt: a business leads add-on for full name, work email, phone, job title and LinkedIn, and a separate social profile add-on.
Email verification, as a paid add-on. ZipLead does not verify an address it finds.
Many more raw fields: reviews and their distribution, images, menus, price bracket, popular times, questions and answers, and closed status.
Real developer control: API, webhooks, scheduling, an MCP server, Make and Zapier, and any of the platform's other tools in the same run.
An AI competitor analysis report and a map visualization, neither of which exists in ZipLead.

THE HONEST GAP

Where Apify leaves you short.

Apify is infrastructure, and that is the point of it. You pick an actor, configure the input, run it, then handle the output yourself. For an agency owner who just wants a list of contractors to call, that is several layers of abstraction above the actual job.

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