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What 1,000 results actually cost
Apify’s pricing page lists plans, not what a job costs. An Actor is a ready-made scraper on Apify’s Store, priced per result; these are the Free-plan prices per 1,000 results for the ones we recommend, cheapest first, with a guide for each.
| Target | Free-plan price per 1,000 results | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Twitter / X | $0.40 per 1,000 tweets | Guide to scraping Twitter / X |
| YouTube | $1.00 per 1,000 transcripts | Guide to scraping YouTube |
| Airbnb | $2.00 per 1,000 listings | Guide to scraping Airbnb |
| $2.70 per 1,000 results | Guide to scraping Instagram | |
| Google Maps | $4.00 per 1,000 places | Guide to scraping Google Maps |
| $4.00 per 1,000 results | Guide to scraping Reddit | |
| YouTube | $4.00 per 1,000 videos | Guide to scraping YouTube |
| Google Search | $4.50 per 1,000 pages | Guide to scraping Google Search |
| $5.00 per 1,000 posts | Guide to scraping Facebook | |
| $10.00 per 1,000 profiles | Guide to scraping LinkedIn |
Free-plan rates, verified October 2026, before Apify’s compute charge (usually cents per run). Starter and higher plans pay less on every row. See what the Free plan buys.
What do you need the data for?
Six jobs Apify does well, each with the Actor we start from and a playbook that walks through it.
- Lead generationBusiness lists from Google Maps and LinkedIn, straight into a CRM.Google Maps Scraper · $4 per 1,000 placesRead the playbook
- Price monitoringAmazon, eBay and Shopify prices on a schedule, diffed against yesterday.Amazon Product Scraper · from $3 per 1,000 productsRead the playbook
- Competitor trackingCatalogues, reviews and job posts, with an alert when something changes.Website Content CrawlerRead the playbook
- Social listeningBrand mentions and competitor posts across Instagram, TikTok and X.Instagram Scraper · $2.70 per 1,000 resultsRead the playbook
- Data for AI and RAGPages to clean Markdown, embedded, re-crawled only where they changed.Website Content CrawlerRead the playbook
- Market intelligencePricing, launches, hiring and search-interest signals, weekly.Google Trends Scraper · $3 per 1,000 resultsRead the playbook
The Actor to run for each site
Search the Store for any site, or start from a tested pick: one Actor per site, its Free-plan price, and the guide where we ran it. Prices verified October 2026.
- LinkedIn
LinkedIn Profile Scraper
$10.00 per 1,000 profilesGuide to LinkedInOpen on Apify: LinkedIn Profile Scraper - Amazon
Amazon Product Scraper
from $0.80 per 1,000 productsGuide to AmazonOpen on Apify: Amazon Product Scraper - YouTube
YouTube Transcript Scraper Pro
$1.00 per 1,000 transcriptsGuide to YouTubeOpen on Apify: YouTube Transcript Scraper Pro - Twitter / X
Tweet Scraper V2
$0.40 per 1,000 tweetsGuide to Twitter / XOpen on Apify: Tweet Scraper V2 - Facebook
Facebook Posts Scraper
$5.00 per 1,000 postsGuide to FacebookOpen on Apify: Facebook Posts Scraper - Google Trends
Google Trends Scraper
$3.00 per 1,000 resultsGuide to Google TrendsOpen on Apify: Google Trends Scraper
Start here
The six pages that answer what Apify costs, which Actor to run, and whether it is the right tool.
PricingApify Free plan: what $5 in credits buys
What $5 a month covers, where it runs out first, and when Starter is the cheaper plan.
Read the guideRoundupBest LinkedIn scrapers: 5 Actors, no cookies
Five Actors that read public profiles without your session cookie, priced per 1,000 and rated.
Read the guideRoundupBest Apify Actors, by category
Every category we have tested, with the per-1,000 price and the failure mode of each pick.
Read the guideLegalIs Apify legal and safe to use?
What the case law says, and where scraping public data stops being defensible.
Read the guidePricingApify pricing: the $0, $19, $199 and $999 plans
The four plans, their compute rates, and the per-Actor fees that wreck most cost estimates.
Read the guideMCPConnect Apify to Claude Desktop via MCP
Give Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code live access to any Actor in one OAuth click.
Read the guideWhen another tool wins
Where Apify loses, stated plainly, with prices checked live.
Apify vs. Bright Data
Proxy traffic: Bright Data sells residential IPs at $4/GB against Apify's $8/GB. Apify runs the scraper and stores the output; that gap decides most jobs.
Read the comparisonApify vs. Firecrawl
Markdown for an LLM: Firecrawl wins for zero-config site crawls. Apify wins for structured, scheduled extraction, and many teams run both.
Read the comparisonBest Apify alternatives
Which alternatives are free and what the rest charge: Crawl4AI, Crawlee, Firecrawl, Octoparse, Bright Data and IPRoyal.
Read the comparisonQuestions readers ask
Frequently Asked Questions
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation. Its Store lists 70,000+ ready-made Actors, small programs that each scrape one site or run one automation, and you pay per result or per compute unit rather than per seat.
Yes. The Free plan includes $5 of usage every month with no card on file. At the Free-plan prices in the table above that is about 1,250 Google Maps places or 500 LinkedIn profiles, and the credit resets each month.
Google Maps, Google Search, Instagram, LinkedIn, Amazon, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter/X, Reddit, Facebook, Zillow, eBay, Shopify, Yelp, Indeed, GitHub, Glassdoor and Airbnb all have maintained Actors, and the Store search covers thousands more.
When the job is mostly proxy traffic, Bright Data’s residential proxies at $4/GB undercut Apify’s $8/GB. When you need Markdown from a whole site to feed an LLM, Firecrawl is simpler. Apify wins on structured, scheduled extraction where an Actor already exists.
Yes. The Apify MCP server at mcp.apify.com gives Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor access to any Actor in the Store, connected with one OAuth click or by running the open-source @apify/actors-mcp-server package locally. Apify also publishes Agent Skills for coding assistants, installed with npx skills add apify/agent-skills.
Use Apify is an independent publication by Yassine El Haddad and Achraf Bizyane, two software developers. It is not owned or run by Apify Inc.; the reviews, tutorials and comparisons are based on their own testing. The site earns a referral fee when a reader signs up to Apify through its affiliate links, which are disclosed on every monetized page.
Run your first Actor on the Free plan
$5 of usage every month, no card, no expiry. Pick an Actor from the table above, paste your input, and download the results as JSON or CSV.