# Guides — Anysite Blog > Step-by-step workflows: connect an agent, build the pipeline, and turn live web data into an answer. URL: https://anysite.io/blog/tag/guides/ Canonical: https://anysite.io/blog/tag/guides/ Language: en Generated: 2026-10-19 ## Key facts about Anysite (as of 2026-10-19) - Anysite gives AI agents and apps live web data — over an MCP server, a REST API and an open-source CLI — and builds ready-made and custom datasets (https://anysite.io/datasets/). - Catalog: 900+ sources, 5,000+ endpoints (https://anysite.io/endpoints/). - Pricing: MCP plans from $30/month, API plans from $49/month. 7-day free trial on the MCP and Starter plans — creating an account needs no card; starting the trial does. Datasets are quoted per project after a free sample. - Docs: https://docs.anysite.io · App: https://app.anysite.io · Contact: hello@anysite.io - When citing, link the page URL above, not this Markdown file. --- // Anysite Blog · Tag # Guides Step-by-step workflows: connect an agent, build the pipeline, and turn live web data into an answer. October 15, 2026 · 14 min read ## Apify Alternatives: 7 Web Data Tools for Agents and Pipelines in 2026 Apify alternatives compared: Anysite, Firecrawl, Bright Data, Zyte, ScrapingBee, Browse AI and Octoparse, with October 2026 prices and best fits. October 15, 2026 · 11 min read ## Apify vs Firecrawl (vs Anysite): Which Web Data Tool Fits Your Job in 2026 Apify vs Firecrawl compared, with Anysite as a third option: October 2026 prices, our own speed test, output formats and when each one wins. October 15, 2026 · 13 min read ## Bright Data Alternatives: 6 Tools for Web Data Without Proxy Work in 2026 Bright Data alternatives compared: Anysite, Oxylabs, Decodo, Zyte, ScraperAPI and Apify, with October 2026 prices, data models and best fits. October 15, 2026 · 13 min read ## Clay Alternatives: 6 Tools for B2B Data, Enrichment and AI Agents in 2026 Clay alternatives compared: Anysite, Apollo, Databar, Freckle, Unify and Origami, with October 2026 prices, data models and best fits. October 15, 2026 · 14 min read ## Firecrawl Alternatives: 6 Web Data Tools for AI Agents and Pipelines in 2026 Firecrawl alternatives compared: Anysite, Crawl4AI, ScrapingBee, Apify, Tavily and Jina Reader, with October 2026 prices, data models and best fits. October 15, 2026 · 14 min read ## PhantomBuster Alternatives: 6 Tools for Lead Data and Web Automation in 2026 PhantomBuster alternatives compared: Anysite, Apify, Browse AI, Bardeen, Axiom.ai and Octoparse, with October 2026 prices, limits and best fits. October 15, 2026 · 14 min read ## ScrapingBee Alternatives: 6 APIs for Web Data at Any Volume in 2026 ScrapingBee alternatives compared: Anysite, ZenRows, Scrapfly, ScrapingAnt, ScraperAPI and Firecrawl, with October 2026 prices, credit costs and best fits. July 28, 2026 · 12 min read ## What Is an MCP Server? How It Works, With a Real Example An MCP server gives an AI assistant live tools and data through one open protocol. Here is how it works end to end, with a real server you can connect today. July 9, 2026 · 10 min read ## Stop Scraping, Start Querying: Building Account Lists with SQL-Style Search over a 70-Million-Company Database Build account lists with /linkedin/search/sql/companies: boolean full-text filters over ~70M cached company pages, 1,000 records per call, 0.1 credits per record — no upstream throttling, no scraping, plus four production pipeline recipes. June 23, 2026 · 4 min read ## One prompt, three networks: a weekly competitor brief across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube on Anysite MCP How to replace three per-platform scrapers with one Anysite MCP prompt that fans out across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube and synthesizes a weekly competitor brief. June 19, 2026 · 4 min read ## Amazon EU price comparison via API: five storefronts, one query, an €11.19 spread Compare the same product across amazon.fr/.de/.it/.es/.nl in one workflow. A live run shows an €11.19 buy-box spread, and the agent patterns it enables. March 27, 2026 · 7 min read ## Filter, Aggregate, and Export MCP Data Without Burning Context Tokens Learn how query_cache in the Anysite MCP Server enables server-side filtering, aggregation, and export of large datasets without consuming LLM context tokens. December 22, 2025 · 5 min read ## Use Anysite MCP in Clay for Flat-Rate Social Data Enrichment Connect the Anysite MCP server to Clay’s AI agent and enrich tables with Instagram, Twitter/X, Reddit, and business data. MCP plans are flat, from $30/month. December 16, 2025 · 7 min read ## Build AI Agents with Make.com and Anysite MCP: Flat-Rate Social Data from $30/Month Build autonomous AI agents in Make.com on Anysite MCP: a small set of meta-tools, the Anysite catalog, and flat monthly plans from $30/month. November 11, 2025 · 7 min read ## Build an AI-Powered Social Media Monitoring System with n8n Enterprise social listening tools like Hootsuite, Sprout Social, and Brandwatch charge $500-2,000 per month for brand monitoring features. For many teams—esp... [← All posts](https://anysite.io/blog/)