Built by developers,
for developers
Every feature in ApifyForge exists because we hit a real problem and got tired of solving it with bash scripts. Here are the problems and the tools they became.
88 actors broke overnight and we didn't know until users complained
An upstream dependency changed. Actors that had been running fine for months started returning empty datasets. We found out when support emails arrived — hours after the damage was done. Checking each actor manually through the Apify console took most of a day. By then, users had already moved to competitors.
Health Monitor — watches success rates across every actor and flags anomalies before users notice.Smart Alerts send notifications to Slack or email when something breaks.
Schema mismatches kept triggering maintenance flags
An actor would work perfectly when we tested it. Then Apify's automated checks would flag it for maintenance because the output didn't match the declared schema in edge cases — a field returning null instead of a string, or an extra debug field leaking into production output. Each maintenance flag tanked the actor's Store visibility for weeks. We were losing revenue from a problem we couldn't see.
Schema Validator — catches every type mismatch, undeclared field, and missing required field before deploy.Regression Tests block pushes when test cases fail. We went from regular maintenance flags to zero.
Updating pricing across the fleet took a full afternoon
When we decided to adjust PPE pricing across a batch of actors, there was no bulk operation. Each actor needed its own API call with its own pricing payload. We wrote a script, but the script broke when Apify changed the pricing API format. Then we wrote another script. Then we had a folder of scripts that nobody remembered how to use.
Bulk Operations — update pricing, metadata, categories, or trigger builds across dozens of actors in one action. What used to take an afternoon now takes seconds.
We had no idea which actors were actually making money
The Apify console shows revenue per actor, but only if you click into each one individually. With a large portfolio, some actors earn well, some earn nothing, and some cost more in compute than they bring in. Without a fleet-level view, we were investing time into actors that were quietly losing money and ignoring ones that were growing.
Revenue Analytics — shows PPE earnings per actor over time with trend lines. Immediately obvious which actors deserve attention and which are dead weight.Competitor Intel shows what rival actors are doing differently.
Non-technical users couldn't find the right actor
The Apify Store has thousands of actors. Marketers and sales teams kept asking us “which scraper should I use for Google Maps?” or “how much will it cost to get 1,000 leads?” They didn't want to read technical documentation — they wanted someone to tell them which tool to pick and what it would cost.
Actor Recommender — describe what you need in plain English, get ranked suggestions.Head-to-head Comparisons for side-by-side evaluation.Cost Calculator to estimate costs before spending anything.
MCP servers were failing silently and we had no way to test them
We built MCP intelligence servers that AI agents connect to over HTTP. When something went wrong — wrong URL, standby mode not enabled, authentication mismatch — the error messages from MCP clients were useless. We'd spend 30 minutes debugging what turned out to be a missing flag in actor.json.
MCP Debugger — sends a test handshake, checks the response format, diagnoses the exact issue, and suggests the fix. What took 30 minutes of guessing now takes 5 seconds.
Who we are
Independent Apify developers, not affiliated with Apify the company. Power users who pushed the platform until the tooling broke, then built what we wished existed. Every feature in ApifyForge solves a problem we actually had — nothing was built speculatively, nothing was added because it looked good on a feature page.
ApifyForge is free. Connect your API token and see your fleet from above. If you manage more than a handful of actors, you'll wonder how you managed without it.