Apify review70 of 100, good
A platform, not a per-request API: $5 of free usage a month, Starter at $19 plus pay as you go, compute at $0.20 a unit, and 70,495 ready-made scrapers in its store.
Reviewed 2026-09-18 by Phillip Paul Inker. Facts re-read 2026-09-18. 2 sources. apify.com. Brand searches: 301,000 a month worldwide (Google, read 2026-09-18).
The price of a page depends on which Actor fetches it and how much compute it burns, so no per-1,000 figure fits. What is public is the platform ladder: a free $5 of monthly usage, three paid tiers whose fee is also their usage credit, compute from $0.20 down to $0.13 a unit, and the add-ons.
Best for: Teams that want ready-made scrapers for named sites and a place to run their own, rather than a single fetch endpoint.
Starter is $19 a month with $19 to spend and compute at $0.20 a unit; Scale $199 at $0.16; Business $999 at $0.13; annual billing 10% off. The cost per page depends on the Actor and its compute, so it cannot be put per 1,000 here.
70,495 Actors in the store, an anti-blocking layer, proxies, integrations, an MCP server, the open-source Crawlee library and a way to build and monetise your own, per the site.
No success rate, latency or concurrency figure on the pricing page; concurrent runs are a $5 per run add-on, RAM $1 per GB.
An API with an OpenAPI reference, webhooks, a CLI, SDKs for Python and JavaScript, an MCP server and integrations, per the documentation.
Plan fees, usage credits, compute rates, add-on prices and discounts are public; what a given scrape costs is only knowable per Actor.
A free plan with $5 of monthly usage and no card, monthly or annual billing; refund terms were not on the pages read.
Every scraper in the database on one axis, rank 6 of 14. The zones are the grades.
Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches for “apify”, read 2026-09-18. Demand, not quality: the rubric ignores it.
- 70,495 ready-made scrapers under one account
- The plan fee is also the usage credit
- Free $5 of usage every month without a card
- Full API, CLI, SDKs, webhooks and MCP documented
- No per-page price; cost depends on the Actor and its compute
- Concurrency is a paid add-on
- No success rate or latency published
- Refund terms not on the pages read
- Plans
- Free $0 ($5 usage), Starter $19, Scale $199, Business $999, each fee also its monthly usage credit; Enterprise custom [1]
- Compute
- $0.20 a unit on Free and Starter, $0.16 on Scale, $0.13 on Business [1]
- Annual
- 10% off [1]
- Store
- 70,495 Actors; Bronze, Silver and Gold store discounts by plan [1]
- Add-ons
- Concurrent runs $5 a run, Actor RAM $1 per GB, datacenter proxy from $0.60 per IP, personal training $150 an hour [1]
- Startups
- $500 of free usage for six months to build your own Actors [1]
- Integration
- API with OpenAPI reference, webhooks, CLI, Python and JavaScript SDKs, MCP server, per the documentation [2]
| Challenge | Price | Unit | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan, per month | $19 | Starter, plus pay as you go; $19 to spend in the store or on your own Actors | Compute $0.20 a unit, chat support, Bronze store discount | [1] |
| Compute unit | $0.20 | per compute unit on Free and Starter | $0.16 on Scale ($199), $0.13 on Business ($999) | [1] |
| Free tier | $0 | $5 a month to spend, no card | Compute $0.20 a unit, community support | [1] |
| Add-ons | $5 | per concurrent run; Actor RAM $1 per GB; datacenter proxy from $0.60 per IP; personal training $150 an hour | [1] |
What the pricing page says
Flexible plan plus pay as you go. Free is $0 with $5 a month to spend in the store or on your own Actors, compute at $0.20 a unit and community support. Starter is $19 a month with $19 to spend, the same compute rate, chat support and a Bronze store discount; Scale $199 with $199, compute at $0.16, priority chat and Silver; Business $999 with $999, compute at $0.13, an account manager and Gold. Annual billing is 10% off. Add-ons: concurrent runs at $5 a run, Actor RAM at $1 per GB, datacenter proxies from $0.60 an IP, personal training at $150 an hour.
Why there is no per-1,000 price
A page on Apify is fetched by an Actor, a program in the store or your own, and billed by the compute it consumes plus, for many store Actors, a price the author sets per result. Two Actors scraping the same site can cost different amounts. The ranking table on this site therefore shows Apify's plan fee where other vendors show a per-1,000 figure; the comparison to make is per Actor, on its store page.
Integration and terms
The API reference is published with an OpenAPI specification and covers webhooks; the site names a CLI, Python and JavaScript SDKs, an MCP server and the open-source Crawlee library. Terms: no card for the free plan, monthly or annual billing. A refund policy was not on the pages read.
Questions people ask
What does a page cost?
It depends on the Actor that fetches it and the compute it uses, at $0.20 a unit on Starter; the pricing page has no per-page figure.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, $5 of usage a month with no card and compute at $0.20 a unit, per the pricing page.
What are the add-ons?
Concurrent runs at $5 a run, Actor RAM at $1 per GB, datacenter proxies from $0.60 an IP and personal training at $150 an hour, per the pricing page.
- No per-page or per-1,000 price exists on the platform; the ranking shows the plan fee instead.
- Refund terms were not on the pages read.
- Per-result prices of store Actors were not read.
- [1]Apify pricing Apify, read 2026-09-18.
“Free $0 $5 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors $0.2 per compute unit. Starter $19 / month + pay as you go $19 to spend $0.2 per compute unit Chat support Bronze Apify Store discount. Scale $199 $0.16 per compute unit. Business $999 $0.13 per compute unit Account manager. -10% Bill annually. Add-on $5 / run Concurrent runs. $1 / GB Actor RAM. from $0.6 / IP Datacenter proxy. $150 / hour Personal training. Browse 70,495 Actors.”
- [2]Apify API reference Apify, read 2026-09-18.
“webhook, Python, OpenAPI, SDK, CLI, PHP, Node.js, MCP, JavaScript, Java named in the API reference.”
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