We introduce quasi-Prüfer ring extensions, in order to relativize quasi-Prüfer domains and to take also into account some contexts in recent papers, where such extensions appear in a hidden form. An extension is quasi-Prüfer if and only if it is an INC pair. The class of these extensions has nice stability properties. We also define almost-Prüfer extensions that are quasi-Prüfer, the converse being not true. Quasi-Prüfer extensions are closely linked to finiteness properties of fibers. Applications are given for FMC extensions, because they are quasi-Prüfer.