How much does Apify cost?

Apify uses a credit-based pricing model where you pay for the compute resources your actors consume, with plans starting from a free tier that includes $5 of monthly platform credits all the way up to enterprise plans for high-volume users. Here is how the pricing tiers break down. The Free plan gives you $5 of platform credits per month, 10 GB of data transfer, and access to all core platform features including the Store, API, CLI, and web scraping tools. The Personal plan at $49 per month includes $49 of platform credits, 30-day data retention, higher concurrency, and priority support. The Team plan at $499 per month is designed for organizations with multiple users and includes $499 of credits, team management features, 90-day data retention, and dedicated support. Enterprise plans are custom-priced for large-scale operations. Platform credits are consumed by compute time (CPU and memory usage during actor runs), data transfer, proxy bandwidth, and storage. The exact credit consumption depends on your actor's resource requirements. A lightweight Cheerio-based scraper processing 1,000 pages might cost $0.10 in credits, while a Playwright-based scraper rendering JavaScript on the same number of pages might cost $0.50 or more. On top of platform credits, there is Pay Per Event (PPE) pricing. When users run actors that have PPE enabled, they pay per event — for example, per result returned, per page scraped, or per search performed. As an actor developer, you set the PPE price and earn revenue from every event your actors generate. This is where the economics get interesting: developers with 10 or more published actors often earn more in PPE revenue than they spend on their Apify subscription, making the platform effectively self-funding. ApifyForge helps you track both sides of this equation with its revenue dashboard, showing your PPE earnings alongside your platform costs so you can see your net position at a glance. Visit apifyforge.com/glossary/ppe for a detailed breakdown of how Pay Per Event pricing works. For related information, see the questions about whether Apify has a free tier and how much you can earn with Apify actors.