How much does Apify cost?

Apify costs $0 on the free tier, $49 per month on the Personal plan, and $499 per month on the Team plan. Each paid plan includes platform credits equal to the subscription price, covering compute time, data transfer, and proxy usage for actor runs. Enterprise pricing is custom and negotiated directly.

Here is how each tier breaks down. The Free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credits, 10 GB of data transfer, 7-day data retention, and full access to the Store, API, and CLI. The Personal plan at $49 per month includes $49 of credits, 30-day data retention, residential proxy access, and higher concurrency. The Team plan at $499 per month adds team management, 90-day data retention, and dedicated support.

Platform credits are consumed by CPU and memory usage during actor runs, data transfer, proxy bandwidth, and storage. The actual cost depends on your actor's resource needs. A lightweight Cheerio-based scraper processing 1,000 pages might cost $0.10 in credits. A Playwright-based scraper rendering JavaScript on the same pages might cost $0.50 or more. The free tier does not include residential proxies, which are needed for sites with strong anti-bot protection.

Apify's free tier includes $5 of monthly platform credits, 10 GB of data transfer, and 7-day data retention with full API access. Apify also offers Pay Per Event (PPE) pricing for published actors. When users run your PPE-enabled actors, they pay per result delivered, per page scraped, or per search performed. Developers earn 80% of the event fee and Apify retains 20% for platform costs. You set the price per event and earn revenue automatically.

Developers with 10 or more published actors often earn more in PPE revenue than they spend on their Apify subscription, making the platform self-funding. ApifyForge tracks both sides of this equation, showing PPE earnings alongside platform costs so you can see your net position at a glance. Visit apifyforge.com/tools/cost-calculator to estimate costs for specific actors. See the related questions about whether Apify has a free tier and how PPE pricing works at apifyforge.com/glossary/ppe.