If you've searched for a way to turn company names into domains at scale, you've probably landed on both of these tools. They look like they solve the same problem. They don't.
Apify
A full-stack web scraping and automation platform with 22,000+ pre-built scrapers, proxy management, headless browser support, cloud infrastructure, and a marketplace where developers build and sell their own tools. It can scrape Google Maps, TikTok, LinkedIn, Amazon, and hundreds of other platforms.
FindCompanyDomain.com
Does one thing: turns company names into accurate domains. That's it. No actors, no proxy rotation, no scraping infrastructure. Just — you give us a company name, we give you the right domain.
The question isn't which tool is better. It's which one is right for what you're actually trying to do.
The Core Problem Both Tools Try to Solve
You have a list of company names. You need their websites. Maybe it's 500 records from a conference list. Maybe it's 20,000 accounts from a market research report. Maybe it's a CRM full of leads with missing domain fields.
With Apify:
Find or build an actor that scrapes a source likely to have company websites, configure it, run it, parse the output, clean the results, match them back to your original list. If you're technical and already familiar with Apify, this is doable. If you're a sales ops manager who needs domains by Friday, it's a project.
With FindCompanyDomain.com:
Upload your CSV, get back a CSV with domains and confidence scores. Done in minutes.
Same problem. Very different journeys to the answer.
What Apify Actually Is — And Isn't
Apify is a developer platform. Its strength is flexibility — if a website exists and has data you want, someone has probably built an Apify actor to scrape it. The platform handles the hard infrastructure problems: rotating proxies, CAPTCHA bypassing, JavaScript rendering, rate limiting, cloud scaling.
For domain finding specifically, you would typically use Apify to scrape a directory, a LinkedIn search, or a Google search result — and then extract the domain from what comes back. That's indirect. You're not asking Apify "what is this company's domain?" You're asking it to scrape a source that might contain the answer, and then doing the matching yourself.
This approach has advantages:
- Your workflow is already Apify-native
- You need custom scraping logic
- Domain finding is one step inside a larger data pipeline you've built
It has real costs too:
Apify's pricing is compute-unit based — flexible but unpredictable at scale, and several user reviews flag that cost visibility is harder than it looks. More importantly, the quality of domain matching depends entirely on the actor you use and the sources it scrapes. Some actors are well-maintained. Others aren't. The platform has 22,000+ actors — quality varies significantly across that catalogue.
What FindCompanyDomain.com Actually Is
A purpose-built database and matching engine for one specific lookup: company name → domain.
It doesn't scrape. It matches — against a curated, maintained dataset with confidence scoring on every result. You know when to trust the match and when to verify. The matching logic handles:
- Legal entity normalization (stripping Inc., LLC, GmbH automatically)
- Disambiguation using location and industry context
- International naming conventions
The result is predictable, consistent, and fast. 500 lookups per minute in bulk. Sub-second via API. Pay-as-you-go with no subscription, no compute-unit arithmetic, no infrastructure decisions.
For outbound sales teams, this is the relevant difference: FindCompanyDomain tells you a domain and tells you how confident it is. Apify gives you a scraping result and leaves the quality assessment to you.
Cost Comparison
This is where the tools diverge most clearly for domain-specific use cases.
| Feature | FindCompanyDomain.com | Apify |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go per lookup | Compute units (subscription + usage) |
| Entry cost | $0 — 500 free credits | $5 free monthly credits |
| Paid plans | From $0.0025 per lookup | From $49/month |
| Cost for 5,000 lookups | ~$13 | Variable — depends on actor and compute |
| Predictability | High — fixed per lookup | Low — varies by actor complexity |
| Minimum commitment | None | None on free tier |
| API access | All users | All users |
Apify's compute unit model makes costs genuinely hard to predict for domain finding specifically — because it depends on which actor you use, how many pages it scrapes to find the domain, whether JavaScript rendering is needed, and whether the target site has anti-scraping measures. A lookup that costs 0.1 compute units on one source might cost 5 on another.
FindCompanyDomain charges the same amount per lookup regardless. You know what you're spending before you spend it.
When You Should Use Apify
Apify is the right choice when domain finding is one step inside a broader data pipeline you're already building. If you're scraping LinkedIn for company data, extracting firmographics, pulling technology stack signals, and domain finding is just one field you need — Apify's ecosystem makes sense. You're already there.
It's also right for teams with technical resources who need custom matching logic — scraping a specific niche directory, an industry database, or a proprietary source that no off-the-shelf tool covers.
And it's right when you need data that goes beyond domains — contact information, company descriptions, social profiles, technology signals. Apify's actor library covers most of this. FindCompanyDomain does not.
Choose Apify if:
- You're building a custom data pipeline
- Domain finding is one field inside a larger scraping workflow
- You have technical resources to configure and maintain actors
- You need data beyond just domains — contacts, firmographics, social profiles
- You're already an Apify user and comfortable with compute unit pricing
When You Should Use FindCompanyDomain.com
FindCompanyDomain is right when the job is exactly this: you have company names and you need their domains. No pipeline, no scraping, no infrastructure decisions.
It's right for sales and outbound teams who need enriched lists fast, without depending on a developer or learning a scraping platform. Upload the CSV, download the results, move on.
It's right when you need confidence scoring — knowing which matches to trust and which to manually verify, without reviewing every row yourself.
It's right when predictable, low-cost pricing matters — especially for teams processing variable volumes month to month who don't want a subscription they'll underuse.
Choose FindCompanyDomain.com if:
- You need company names turned into domains — that's the whole job
- You're a sales, marketing, or ops team without scraping infrastructure
- You want predictable per-lookup pricing with no minimum commitment
- You need confidence scores to know where to focus manual verification
- You process variable volumes and want pay-as-you-go flexibility
- Speed matters — results in minutes, not a pipeline build
The Honest Summary
Apify is a powerful platform for teams who need flexible, scalable web scraping across many data types. If you're already in that world, it can absolutely find company domains — but it's indirect, variable in quality depending on the actor, and harder to cost-predict than the pricing page suggests.
FindCompanyDomain.com is not trying to compete with Apify on breadth. It's competing on depth — doing one specific lookup better, faster, and more cheaply than a general-purpose scraping platform ever will, because that's the only problem it was built to solve.
Most outbound teams don't need 22,000 actors. They need their list enriched by tomorrow morning.