Apify Pricing Explained

Understand Apify plan credits, actor event charges, and platform usage costs before starting a run.

Updated: September 8, 2026

Published by Try Apify Editorial

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Apify charges for actor events or platform usage. A saved price for one event is not necessarily the full cost of a run.

Monthly plans

As of September 8, 2026, the Free plan includes $5 in monthly credits. Starter costs $19 per month plus usage beyond its $19 credit; Scale costs $199 per month plus usage beyond its $199 credit.

Compute costs $0.20 per CU on Free and Starter, and $0.16 per CU on Scale. One CU is 1 GB of RAM running for one hour. Concurrent run limits are 5, 32, and 128 respectively.

Source: Apify pricing. Plans, limits, and charges can change.

Actor charges

Pay-per-event actors charge for developer-defined events, which can include starting a run or returning a result. Other events or platform usage may cost extra. Pay-per-usage actors have no developer surcharge but consume billable platform resources.

Some saved directory records use legacy monthly rental or per-dataset-item models. Open the actor listing for its current terms. An unknown price does not mean free.

Source: Actors in Apify Store.

Estimate your own workload

Review the actor pricing section, set a small input and spending limit, then inspect the run cost before scaling. Credits do not guarantee a fixed number of results. Proxies, storage, data transfer, and dataset operations can affect the total.