Bluefield
Bluefield: the single-API, verifiable Apify alternative
Bluefield is an Apify alternative for teams that want one consistent, agent-native web-data API instead of a marketplace of thousands of third-party actors. Every live result is cryptographically signed and verifiable. Apify’s strength is its huge library of pre-built, site-specific scrapers; Bluefield’s is consistency and provenance.
Marketplace vs single API
Apify is a marketplace where you pick among many community actors of varying quality and maintenance. Bluefield is one maintained API with a single output contract and a verifiable signature on every live result — better when consistency and provenance matter more than a ready-made scraper for one specific site.
- Actor marketplace
- Apify’s model: thousands of third-party scrapers for specific sites.
- Single clean API
- Bluefield’s model: one maintained surface, one output contract.
- Provenance
- A signed, verifiable record on every live result; no Apify actor provides this.
Bluefield capabilities
| Capability | Detail |
|---|---|
| Signed results | Every live fetch is signed + verifiable (cache hits and PDFs unsigned in v1) |
| One output contract | Consistent across all sites — no actor-to-actor variance |
| Agent-native | MCP server + OpenAPI + llms.txt |
| Full surface | /scrape, /crawl, /map, /search, /extract, watch mode |
| Transparent benchmarks | Published head-to-head vs Firecrawl + Jina, with methodology |
Frequently asked questions
- Does Bluefield have Apify’s library of site-specific scrapers?
- No. Bluefield is one general web-data API, not a marketplace. If you need a ready-made scraper for one specific site, Apify’s catalog is broader.
- Why pick Bluefield over an Apify actor?
- Consistency and provenance: one maintained API with a verifiable signature on every live result, instead of choosing among third-party actors with no proof of origin.
- Have you benchmarked Bluefield against Apify?
- Not head-to-head — our shared-corpus benchmark covers Firecrawl and Jina. Apify’s per-actor marketplace model is not directly comparable as a single API, so we do not publish numbers we cannot run fairly.