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MCP vs Apify vs Custom Agents: When to Use Each

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MCP vs Apify vs Custom Agents: When to Use Each By Marek Cziba — Open-source MCP Server Developer Every team building with LLMs eventually hits the same wall: the model can reason, but it cannot do . Three solutions compete for that gap — MCP servers, Apify actors, and custom agents. They are not i…

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