APIFY ALTERNATIVE
Your customers need reliable data. Not a fleet of actors to maintain
Datashake delivers 150+ public social and review sources through one API, one schema, and managed infrastructure – without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining individual actors.
Trusted by global companies
150
+
public data sources
99.9
%
uptime SLA
5
+ yrs
historical data access
What platforms build with Datashake
Review data coverage
Competitive intelligence
Brand monitoring
Trend identification
Sentiment analysis
Multi-market insights
Review data coverage
Competitive intelligence
Brand monitoring
Trend identification
Sentiment analysis
Multi-market insights
Datashake
Bright Data
Review data
✓ 65+ review platforms
✗ No dedicated review product
Social Media API sources
✓ 10+ sources
Actor-by-actor, output varies
Fringe networks
✓ 10+ platforms built-in
✗ Requires custom actor builds
E-commerce data
✓ 50+ sites
✗ No dedicated product
Employer & local sources
✓ Included
✗ Not covered
Historical data
✓ 5+ years
Varies by actor
Keyword/Boolean search
✓ Built-in, 15+ filters
URL-input model, limited discovery
Discovery (no URL needed)
✓ Keyword & topic search
✗ URL required per actor
Normalised schema
✓ Single schema, all sources
✗ Output varies by actor
Managed pipelines
✓ Maintained by Datashake
✗ Each actor self-maintained
Platform change handling
✓ Automatic
✗ Actor-by-actor updates required
Enterprise SLA
✓ 99.9% uptime
✗ Dependent on individual actor
Cost predictability
✓ Fixed monthly
✗ Variable, hard to forecast
Technical onboarding
✓ Dedicated support
✗ Self-serve documentation only
WHY PLATFORMS SWITCH FROM APIFY
Your engineers are maintaining actors. They should be building products.
Apify's actor marketplace is powerful for teams that want to build and customise their own scraping logic. But if you're a product team or data team that needs reliable social and review data delivered consistently at scale – you don't want to maintain a fleet of actors. You want a managed data partner.
Datashake handles collection, normalisation, and pipeline maintenance across 150+ sources. When platforms change, Datashake handles it. Your integration stays stable.
One schema across 150+ sources
No per-actor output variations. Every source – TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, Trustpilot, Google Reviews – normalised to a single JSON schema. Without post-processing.
Platform changes handled automatically
Pipelines maintained by Datashake, not your engineers. Platform changes handled automatically. Your customers see fresh, consistent data.
Review data as a first-class product
Apify has no review product. Datashake covers 65+ review platforms – same API, same schema as social data.
Switch without stress
Review data as a first class product
65+ platforms – Trustpilot, Google Reviews, Glassdoor, and 60+ more – through the same API as your social data.
Platform changes handled before you notice
Platform changes handled by Datashake. Actor updates required by Apify. The difference compounds with every source you cover.
Built for product teams, not just engineers
Datashake is for teams that need reliable delivery without owning the infrastructure. Apify is for engineers who want to build it themselves.
We run your queries. You compare the results. No commitment.
Review Management Services
I’ve been using Datashake for over six years, and it’s been a big part of our business growth during that time. It has really helped improve our operations by providing consistent, reliable data that we can easily plug into our workflows.
Founder & Product Lead
Review Management Services
Partnering with Datashake has been a great experience. Their customer success team is responsive, knowledgeable, and always quick to help. They’re open to evolving the product as our needs grow, and their framework makes scaling up or down extremely easy.
Senior Technical Partner Manager
SaaS Platform Partner
Datashake offers the broadest coverage in the market — it's become a key part of our product data pipeline.
Head of Product
How Datashake powers your platform
Your data lands clean, no cleanup required
99%+ deduplication. Full conversation threads. Standard JSON across all 150+ sources – without per-actor schema translation.
Real time and historical
60-second real-time. Sub-2-second archive queries across 5+ years. Same endpoint, no separate actors for different modes.
Find conversations you don't know exist yet
Keyword and Boolean search across TikTok, Reddit, Trustpilot, Google Reviews, and 146+ more.
Launch comprehensive coverage in weeks
Step 01
POC with full access
Full API access to all 150+ sources. Test with your real queries. We validate coverage, performance, and fit.
Step 02
Define your solution
Configure sources, delivery methods, frequencies, and pricing that supports your margins.
Step 03
Seamless onboarding
Dedicated technical support through integration and go-live. Reliable performance from day one.
RUN A FREE BENCHMARK
See what Apify misses – run a free coverage benchmark
Use your own search parameters. We return real results across 150+ sources. Compare side by side. Zero commitment needed.
Free, no-commitment benchmark test
Use your existing queries or filters
Compare results side-by-side
See how much more you could be capturing
FAQs
Your questions,
answered
What data sources does Datashake cover?
150+ sources including public social platforms, 65+ experience and review platforms, 50+ e-commerce sites, employer review sites, and local sources – all through a single API and one normalised schema.
Does Datashake cover review data as well as social data?
Yes. Review data is a core product alongside the Social Media API. Both are accessible through the same API, same schema, same contract. No separate integration required.
How does compliance work?
Datashake collects only pre-login, publicly available data – no authentication needed, and no private accounts accessed. Five-plus years without a legal or compliance incident. Full audit trails and methodology documentation available on request.
Can we search for conversations we don't have URLs for?
Yes. Datashake supports keyword and Boolean search across sources – not just URL-based retrieval. You can discover relevant public mentions by topic, keyword, or filter without knowing which profiles or pages they appear on.
How quickly can we go live?
Most platforms complete integration and launch within weeks. We provide dedicated technical support through POC, configuration, and go-live.
What does the benchmark trial include?
We run your actual search parameters against our infrastructure and return real results. You can compare coverage directly against your current provider.