This article explains the differences between these Actors in aspects such as ownership, maintenance, features, or support.
All Actors undergo regular checks on their functionality. But similarly to other app stores and their apps, some of our Actors are created and developed by us while our community developers create others.
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Comparison
| Maintained by Apify | Maintained by Community |
✨ Features and functionality | We are selective about which use cases have the best potential to become Actors and serve the most users.
We focus on a smaller number of the most popular scenarios. | Community-maintained has a wider range of interests. You can find thousands of supported scenarios in our Apify Store.
Tip: You can suggest your Actor ideas here. |
🧑💻 Ownership | Created and maintained by Apify. | Created and maintained by the community developers. Sometimes established agencies, solo developers in other cases. |
🛠 Maintenance | Apify guarantees all maintenance, updates, and bug fixes. | The community developer does all maintenance, updates, and bug fixes. Apify does not access the source code, only hosts it. |
👷♀️ Reliability and testing | Subject to meticulous reliability testing to meet Apify's quality and performance standards. | Tests are strongly recommended to the developers but not enforced. |
☝️ Support and issues | Issues and questions are raised in the Actor's Issues tab. They are answered directly by the Actor development team in Apify.
Apify support chat does not provide support to these Actors. | Issues and questions are raised in the Actor's Issues tab. They are answered by the community developer.
Apify support chat does not provide support to these Actors. |
✍️ Documentation | Actor documentation is available in the Actor's README and also some use cases can be described in the Help Center here. | Actor documentation is available in the Actor's README. |