Apify free plan: what you get, how credits work, and which Actors you can run without a subscription for learning and light workloads.
Buffer costs $0 for 3 channels, $6 per channel per month on Essentials, or $12 per channel per month on Team. Annual billing drops those to $5 and $10 by giving you two months free. Above 10 channels the per-channel rate falls to $4, then $3, then $1-$2.
There is no Agency plan any more. Buffer retired it in the November 2025 pricing change and folded its features into Team.
Buffer's free plan gives you 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel at a time, unlimited AI Assistant, the community inbox, 30 days of analytics history, 100 saved ideas and one API key. It is permanent, needs no credit card, and never expires.
That is a materially better free tier than it was a year ago. Buffer used to gate AI and the inbox behind Essentials. It no longer does.
As of October 2026, Chatbase costs $40/month for Hobby ($32/month billed annually, 700 message credits), $150/month for Standard ($120/month annually, 4,000 credits) and $500/month for Pro ($400/month annually, 15,000 credits), with a free plan at 50 credits a month and custom Enterprise pricing. What you actually pay depends on three things on top of the plan: the AI model (1 to 6 credits per request), whether replies trigger actions, and add-ons ($25 per extra agent, $99 for branding removal, $40 per 1,000 extra credits).
Verified 2026-10-04 against chatbase.co/pricing and the Chatbase docs. Compare Chatbase plans on the official pricing page.
The honest answer: it depends on what you actually dictate. For some users, 2,000 words per week is genuinely sufficient indefinitely. For others, it lasts a Tuesday afternoon.
This post breaks down exactly what 2,000 words translates to in real work — emails, messages, documents, code comments — so you can decide whether the free plan fits before signing up, and whether Pro is worth the upgrade once you've tried it.
Octoparse's free tier caps you at 2 local tasks, 10,000 records per export, and no cloud—fine for learning the product, not for production workloads. Try Octoparse free or Apify's $5 free credits. Below: hard limits, what still works on $0, and when paying unlocks cloud, scheduling, and rotation.
Make.com's free plan includes 1,000 credits per month, a 15-minute minimum scheduling interval, and 2 active scenarios. It is enough for learning and low-volume automations. Production-scale workflows usually require a paid plan. This guide spells out exact limits and what fits.
