Apify
- Free allowance
- USD 5 of platform usage a month on the Free plan, 5 concurrent runs
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capUSD 5 of included usage a month buys about 25 compute units at USD 0.20 a unit, so the run length is what the plan buys, not the run count
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | USD 5 of platform usage a month on the Free plan, 5 concurrent runs unit requests; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the per-unit price is the binding number: an actor's memory and run time decide how many runs a plan buys |
| Identity | email the Free plan is a signup; no card stated |
| Egress | not applicable: dataset records |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a compute unit |
| Retention | included usage resets monthly |
| Interface | rest REST and a large Actor store; actors run on the platform's compute |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | A place to run somebody else's scraper, which is a different shape from a crawl API that returns pages |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The unit is a compute unit, not a page, so the free allowance buys an unknown number of pages before an Actor's own price is counted. The cheapest thing here is the Actor store, not the compute. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | apify.com/pricing | Free USD 0 with USD 5 of included usage a month, USD 0.2 per compute unit, 16 GB memory, 5 concurrent runs; proxy USD 8 a GB; SERP USD 2.50 per 1,000 |
Unknown values 2
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field