Do the tools cost anything?
By Ryan Clinton · Updated Mar 1, 2026
Every tool in ApifyForge runs as an Apify actor on your account and charges a small PPE fee per use. Results are cached in your dashboard, so viewing previous reports is always free.
Here is the complete pricing by category:
Testing: Output Guard ($0.35), Deploy Guard ($0.35/suite), Cloud Staging ($0.50), Regression Suite ($0.35/suite).
Schema & Data: Input Guard ($0.15), Schema Registry ($0.20), Schema Diff ($0.20), LLM Output Optimizer ($0.35).
Cost & Planning: Cost Calculator ($0.20), Plan Advisor ($0.25), Proxy Analyzer ($0.25).
Compliance: Compliance Scanner ($0.15).
Pipeline: Pipeline Preflight ($0.40).
Privacy: Personal Data Exposure Report ($1.00).
Analytics: Fleet ($0.40), Revenue ($0.40), Health ($0.25), Quality ($0.25), Cost Watchdog ($0.25), Completeness ($0.25), Deprecation ($0.25), A/B Tester ($0.15).
A typical development cycle — schema validation, test suite, and cloud staging — costs about $1.20 total. Visit apifyforge.com/pricing for the full breakdown.
Related term
Apify PPE (Pay Per Event) is a usage-based pricing model where the actor developer defines billable events and sets the price for each event.
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