Apify scrapes anything. MiroMiro extracts design.
Apify's flexibility is its product: build or buy an actor for any scraping job. MiroMiro does one thing - resolve a page's CSS into tokens, assets and code. Breadth versus depth, and it matters which you need.
Apify is a platform: maximum flexibility, and you assemble the solution. MiroMiro is an endpoint: one call, design out. If design extraction is what you need, an actor is a lot of work to rebuild something that already exists as an API call.
Pick the right tool
They solve different problems. The honest fork, so you don't waste an afternoon.
Use MiroMiro if…
Your job is not bespoke at all: you want a page's design tokens, its assets, or a section as code. Building an Apify actor to approximate that means reimplementing a CSS cascade resolver - which is the entire product here.
- You want design tokens, assets or component code without building anything
- You are wiring extraction into an AI coding agent via MCP
- You want a predictable per-call price rather than compute-based billing
Use Apify if…
Your scraping job is bespoke - a specific site, a login flow, a custom pagination scheme, structured data nobody else extracts. Apify's actor model exists precisely for that, and no focused API will match it. Use Apify.
- Your scraping is genuinely bespoke and needs custom logic
- You need login flows, complex pagination, or site-specific structured data
- You want a marketplace of pre-built scrapers for common targets
- You are running large, varied scraping workloads across many sites
MiroMiro vs Apify
| Feature | MiroMiro | Apify |
|---|---|---|
Bespoke / custom scraping The actor model is genuinely powerful here. | ||
Actor marketplace | ||
Login / interaction flows | ||
Resolved CSS cascade Rendering semantics, not scraping logic. | ||
Design tokens out of the box | ||
Section → component code | Tailwind, HTML+CSS, JSX, Vue | |
MCP server for coding agents | ||
Predictable per-call cost Ours is a published per-endpoint rate; theirs scales with actor compute. | Compute-based | |
Setup effort | One API call | Pick/build an actor |
Side by side
MiroMiro
- Free€0100 credits/mo · no card
- Developer€19/mo5,000 credits · 60 req/min
- Growth€79/mo30,000 credits · 120 req/min
- Scale€199/mo200,000 credits · 300 req/min
- BusinessCustomVolume pricing
Apify
- Free$0$5 platform credit/mo
- Starter$39/moPlatform credit + actors
- Scale$199/moHigher limits
- Business$999/moEnterprise support
Apify bills platform credit consumed by compute, so cost tracks how heavy your actors are - flexible, but harder to forecast, and a badly-tuned actor can get expensive quietly. MiroMiro bills per extraction at a published rate (assets 1 credit, tokens 10, brand 15, code 25), which makes the bill trivially predictable but only covers the design-extraction job. Apify pricing verified from public tiers; confirm current rates before quoting.
Apify pricing verified 2026-07-14. Check their site for current rates.
Platform versus endpoint
Apify gives you a marketplace of actors plus the tools to write your own, which makes it the most flexible option in the category - and, inevitably, the one with the most surface area to learn. That trade is worth it when your extraction is genuinely bespoke. It is a poor trade when what you want is a standard thing that already has an endpoint.
Why design extraction resists the actor model
You could write an actor that pulls a page's HTML and CSS. What you would then have is HTML and CSS - not a design. Getting to the design means resolving specificity, media queries, inherited resets and nested custom properties to compute what each element actually renders as, then mapping that to a coherent token set. That is not scraping logic; it is a rendering-semantics problem, and it is a strange thing to rebuild inside an actor when /v1/extract already returns the answer.
The AI-agent case
If you are wiring an extraction step into a coding agent, the shape matters as much as the data. MiroMiro exposes an MCP server, so the agent calls the extraction tool natively - "match stripe.com's brand" resolves to a real palette and typeface set, not a guess. Getting an Apify actor into that loop is a lot more assembly for a narrower payoff.
Common questions
Is MiroMiro an Apify alternative?
Only for one specific job. Apify is a general scraping platform; MiroMiro is a design-extraction API. If you need custom scraping logic, login flows or site-specific structured data, Apify is the right tool and MiroMiro will not replace it. If you want a page's design tokens, assets or code, MiroMiro does it in one call rather than an actor you have to build.
Can I build an Apify actor that extracts design tokens?
You can pull the HTML and CSS, certainly. Turning that into an accurate token set is the hard part - it means resolving the CSS cascade (specificity, media queries, inherited resets, nested custom properties) to compute what actually renders. That is a substantial engine to rebuild, and it is what MiroMiro's /v1/extract already returns.
Which is cheaper?
They are not directly comparable. Apify bills platform credit against actor compute, so it depends entirely on your workload and how well-tuned your actors are. MiroMiro bills a published rate per extraction - 1 credit for assets, 10 for tokens, 15 for brand, 25 for code - which is easy to forecast but only covers design extraction.
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