Apify gives new accounts a $5 one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes $5 in prepaid usage for Apify Store or your own Actors, $0.2 per compute unit for Actor runs, and 8 GB Actor RAM. No credit card is required to sign up.
About
Apify is a full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform built for collecting real-time web data at scale. It provides a marketplace of pre-built Actors, tools for building custom scrapers, and infrastructure for running, scheduling, and monitoring extraction jobs.
The platform is designed for developers and teams that need reliable access to web data for AI applications, social media monitoring, competitive intelligence, lead generation, market research, and other automation workflows. It also includes integrations, proxy services, anti-blocking capabilities, and open-source tooling to support production-grade scraping.
- Marketplace of more than 26,000 ready-made Actors
- Serverless runtime for building and running custom Actors
- Proxy and anti-blocking features for resilient scraping
- Integrations with external apps, APIs, and MCP clients
- Developer tooling, templates, documentation, and Crawlee open source library
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a small but real starter allowance: it includes $5 of prepaid usage, plus access to the core platform with limited concurrency, RAM, storage, and proxy access. Since the cheapest paid plan is Starter at $29/month, the free tier is worth only a small fraction of that in practical terms; however, because this is a one-time monthly credit rather than a recurring allowance, the monthly value should be left unset and the $5 credit captured directly.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- $5 in prepaid usage for Apify Store or your own Actors.
- $0.2 per compute unit for Actor runs.
- Community support.
- No Apify Store discount.
- 8 GB Actor RAM.
- 25 max concurrent runs.
- Limited rented Actors.
- 5 included Datacenter proxy IPs.
- $8 per GB for Residential proxies.
- $2.5 per 1,000 SERPs for SERPs proxy.
- Apify Proxy included for use within the platform only, not external clients.
- Dataset storage with timed storage, reads, and writes billed at free-plan rates.
- Key-value store storage with timed storage, reads, writes, and lists billed at free-plan rates.
- Request queue storage with timed storage, reads, and writes billed at free-plan rates.
- External data transfer billed at $0.20 per GB.
- Internal data transfer billed at $0.05 per GB.
See Apify pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- prepaid platform usage
- $29/month
- compute unit rate
- $0.2/CU
- Actor RAM
- 16 GB
- max concurrent runs
- 32
- datacenter proxy IPs included
- 30
- support level
- chat
- $29 prepaid platform usage per month
- Pay-as-you-go overage after prepaid usage
- Chat support
- Bronze Apify Store discount
- Apify Proxy included for platform use
- More concurrent runs than Free
- Higher Actor RAM than Free
- Rented Actors deducted from prepaid usage
Scale
- prepaid platform usage
- $199/month
- compute unit rate
- $0.16/CU
- Actor RAM
- 64 GB
- max concurrent runs
- 128
- datacenter proxy IPs included
- 200
- support level
- priority chat
- $199 prepaid platform usage per month
- Pay-as-you-go overage after prepaid usage
- Priority chat support
- Silver Apify Store discount
- Lower compute unit rate than Starter
- More Actor RAM and concurrency
- More included datacenter proxy IPs
- Rented Actors deducted from prepaid usage
Business
- prepaid platform usage
- $999/month
- compute unit rate
- $0.13/CU
- Actor RAM
- 512 GB
- max concurrent runs
- 256
- datacenter proxy IPs included
- 500
- support level
- account manager
- $999 prepaid platform usage per month
- Pay-as-you-go overage after prepaid usage
- Account manager
- Gold Apify Store discount
- Lowest compute unit rate shown
- Highest standard Actor RAM and concurrency
- Most included datacenter proxy IPs
- Rented Actors deducted from prepaid usage
Pricing extracted from Apify's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Apify free forever?
No. Apify gives new accounts a one-time signup credit of about $5.00, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
Does Apify require a credit card?
No. You can start on Apify's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Apify's free tier?
Once the signup credit runs out the account moves to pay-as-you-go pricing. Apify's cheapest published paid plan is Starter at $29 / month.
What is Apify's free tier worth?
Apify's free tier is worth about $5.00 in signup credit. That maps to an FTV score of 38/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
