How does ApifyForge work?

ApifyForge is a free developer dashboard that connects to your Apify account via API token and gives you fleet-level management, analytics, and developer tools for all your actors in one place. When you use any feature — whether that is fleet analytics, revenue tracking, schema validation, or regression testing — ApifyForge calls the Apify API on your behalf using the token you provide during setup. Any actor runs triggered through ApifyForge execute on your own Apify account, and you pay Apify directly for those runs through their standard Pay Per Event (PPE) pricing model. ApifyForge itself charges nothing. Here is how the typical workflow looks in practice. First, you connect your Apify account by pasting your API token in the Settings page. Within a few minutes, your dashboard populates with data about every actor in your account: run history, success rates, revenue figures, quality scores, and Store rankings. From there, you can use the Schema Validator to check your actor output against its declared dataset schema, run regression tests across your entire fleet with the Test Runner, track PPE revenue trends over time, and perform bulk metadata updates that would take hours in the Apify Console. The reason ApifyForge exists is that the standard Apify Console is designed to manage actors one at a time. That works fine when you have five actors, but becomes unsustainable at scale. Developers managing portfolios of 20, 50, or 200+ actors need fleet-level visibility: which actors are earning the most, which ones are failing, which ones have schema violations that could trigger maintenance flags, and where the growth opportunities are. ApifyForge provides that visibility in a single dashboard. To get started, visit apifyforge.com and connect your Apify account — setup takes under two minutes. If you are wondering about costs, see the related question about whether ApifyForge is free, or check our PPE pricing breakdown at apifyforge.com/glossary/ppe for details on how actor run costs work.