Apify Apollo Scrapers Are Gone: What Works Now
There is no Apollo.io scraper on Apify. Apify's own category page says so directly: "Apollo scrapers are not available right now because of the company's strict terms of use, even if you have a paid Apollo account" (apify.com/scrapers/apollo, checked 2026-09-09). The Actor most old tutorials still point at, mikepowers/apollo-easy-scraper, is flagged isDeprecated: true in Apify's public API and was last modified in February 2024. What the Store offers instead is a set of general B2B lead-finder Actors sold as Apollo alternatives. They are not Apollo.
Status as of 2026: no Apollo scraper on a Store of 70,000+ Actors; three lead-finder Actors positioned as the replacement.
Why did Apify remove Apollo scrapers?
Apify attributes it to Apollo's contract terms, not to a technical block. Apollo's Terms of Service, section 3(f), prohibits customers from using "automated means, such as bots, crawlers, or data scraping, to access any data on the Platform or to extract information therefrom, except as expressly included within the Platform or approved in writing by Apollo" (apollo.io/terms, checked 2026-09-09).
That clause binds the Apollo account holder. It is why Apify's page adds the qualifier "even if you have a paid Apollo account". Paying Apollo does not buy you the right to automate exports out of it. A scraper that logs in with your credentials puts your Apollo seat at risk, not Apify's.
This is a policy decision that could be reversed. It has not been as of 2026-09-09.
What does the Apify Store offer instead?
Three Actors, all live and all maintained. Figures read from api.apify.com/v2/acts/<slug> on 2026-09-09.
| Actor | Positioning on its own listing | Total users | Users, last 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| code_crafter/leads-finder | "Affordable alternative to ZoomInfo, Lusha & Apollo" | 46,871 | 2,409 |
| microworlds/leads-finder | Email + mobile number lead finder | 20,602 | 708 |
| peakydev/leads-scraper-ppe | "Similar to Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha, LinkedIn | Google Maps" | 16,324 | 593 |
None of the three discloses its data source. Each listing describes what it returns (verified emails, LinkedIn URLs, firmographics) without naming where the records come from. peakydev's listing claims "over 210M verified leads updated every week" but does not say whose. Treat coverage as unknown until you test it against a sample you can already verify.
What do those Actors actually cost per 1,000 leads?
This is the part the Store cards get wrong, and it is worth two minutes before you run anything.
All three use pay-per-event pricing with discount tiers. Apify's docs confirm the mechanism: "Each user that runs your PPE Actor belongs to one of the following discount tiers: FREE, BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD" (docs.apify.com). A developer sets a different per-lead price for each tier. The headline price on a Store card is the floor: the price paid only by the top tier.
Per-lead prices below were read from each Actor's declared pricingPerEvent object on 2026-09-09 and multiplied by 1,000.
| Actor | Store card says | Free | Starter | Scale | Business | Run start fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code_crafter/leads-finder | from $1.50/1k | $2.00 | $2.00 | $1.80 | $1.50 | $0.02/GB |
| microworlds/leads-finder | no price shown | $3.00 | $1.70 | $1.50 | $1.00 | $0.001/GB |
| peakydev/leads-scraper-ppe | $1/1k | $1.60 | $1.70 | $1.60 | $1.20 | $0.10/GB |
Three things fall out of that table.
No plan pays peakydev's advertised $1/1k. Its listing says "As low as $1 for every 1k leads." Its own declared tier prices bottom out at $1.20 per 1,000, on the Business tier. Every other tier pays more.
peakydev charges Starter more than Free. $1.70 per 1,000 on Starter against $1.60 on the free plan. That is what the Actor declares, and it is the only inversion of the three. If you are on Starter and running this Actor at volume, you are paying a 6% premium for having subscribed.
microworlds is the cheapest and the most expensive, depending on your plan. $1.00 per 1,000 on Business, the best rate on this page, and $3.00 per 1,000 on the free plan, the worst. It is the wrong Actor to trial and the right one to scale.
Two caveats from the listings themselves: peakydev caps free-plan users at 100 leads, and code_crafter enriches mobile numbers only for paying Apify accounts.
How do those tiers map to your plan?
Apify does not publish a tier-to-plan table. It can be reconstructed, because the discount tiers carry their own platform unit costs and those match the plan cards exactly.
| Discount tier | Compute unit rate | Plan with the same CU rate |
|---|---|---|
| FREE | $0.20/CU | Free ($0) |
| BRONZE | $0.20/CU | Starter ($19/mo subject to change · verified 2026-09-09) |
| SILVER | $0.16/CU | Scale ($199/mo) |
| GOLD | $0.13/CU | Business ($999/mo) |
CU rates from docs.apify.com and apify.com/pricing, both read 2026-09-09. FREE and BRONZE share a CU rate; the docs separate them by whether the account pays at all, via the APIFY_USER_IS_PAYING variable. Apify also runs PLATINUM and DIAMOND tiers for enterprise accounts, which several of these Actors price for.
This mapping is an inference from matching rates, not an Apify-published mapping. It is stable enough to budget against and cheap enough to check: run 100 leads and read the actual charge.
What changed, and when
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2024-02-02 | mikepowers/apollo-easy-scraper last modified; now flagged deprecated |
| 2026-09-01 | peakydev/leads-scraper-ppe repriced; Business rate moved to $1.20/1k |
| 2026-09-09 | apify.com/scrapers/apollo still lists alternatives only, no Apollo scraper |
This page previously described a five-step Apollo scraping tutorial. That workflow does not execute, and the cost comparison built on it ("cheaper than an Apollo subscription") compared against something you cannot buy. Both were removed on 2026-09-09.
What to do if an Apollo Actor was in your pipeline
- Check the Actor's status. Open its Store page. A deprecated Actor still returns HTTP 200 and may redirect to a different Actor entirely, so read the page, not the status code.
- Decide what the Apollo step was actually for. Sourcing net-new contacts, or enriching a list you already had? The replacements are good at the first and mediocre at the second.
- Trial one Actor on 100 records and diff the output against contacts you can verify by hand. Coverage is the variable none of these listings disclose.
- Read your charge, not the card. After the trial run, open the run's billing breakdown and confirm the per-lead rate your tier was actually charged.
- Set a spending limit before you scale. Pay-per-event has no natural ceiling; see cost optimization.
If the Apollo step was enrichment rather than sourcing, a different shape of Actor fits better: Google Maps for local businesses with addresses and phone numbers, or a contact-details crawler run over company domains you already hold. The lead generation Actor roundup compares those directly.
When Apollo is still the right answer
If you need Apollo's data, meaning its own contact graph and verified-email waterfall, buy Apollo and use its official API. Nothing on the Apify Store is a substitute for that specific database, and the three Actors above do not claim to be. They are separate lead pools with separate coverage, sold into the same job.
Apify is the better choice when the source is the open web rather than one vendor's database, when your volume is spiky enough that per-seat pricing is wasteful, and when you want the extraction step to sit inside a pipeline you control. It is the worse choice when you need a single vendor accountable for record accuracy.
Start on the Apify free plan →. $5 in monthly credit, no card. That is enough to trial all three lead-finder Actors at 100 records each and compare their coverage before you commit to any of them.
The obvious objection: if Apify pulled Apollo scrapers, could it pull these too? It could. Apify withdrew the Apollo category over one vendor's terms of use, and the same could happen to any single-source Actor. The protection is keeping the sourcing step swappable, which is the point of running it as a scheduled Actor with a defined output schema rather than as a hard-coded integration.
The legal boundary
Apollo's terms bar automated extraction from its platform, quoted in full above. That prohibition attaches to the Apollo account holder, which means the risk of a scraper lands on your seat, not on the tool vendor. The three replacement Actors sidestep it by not touching Apollo. But since none of them names its source, you are trusting an undisclosed pipeline with contact data that GDPR and CCPA both treat as personal.
Practical floor: hold a lawful basis for processing business contact data, honor deletion requests, and do not send unsolicited bulk mail on the strength of a scraped address. Fuller treatment in is web scraping legal.
No. Apify's category page states: 'Apollo scrapers are not available right now because of the company's strict terms of use, even if you have a paid Apollo account.' Verified 2026-09-09. The Store lists general B2B lead-finder Actors positioned as Apollo alternatives instead. The older mikepowers/apollo-easy-scraper is flagged as deprecated in Apify's API.
Apify cites Apollo's terms of use. Apollo's Terms of Service section 3(f) prohibits using 'automated means, such as bots, crawlers, or data scraping, to access any data on the Platform.' That clause binds the Apollo account holder, so a login-based scraper risks your Apollo seat rather than the tool vendor's.
It depends on your Apify plan, because all three use tiered pay-per-event pricing. Read from Apify's API on 2026-09-09: peakydev/leads-scraper-ppe runs $1.60 (Free) to $1.20 (Business); code_crafter/leads-finder $2.00 to $1.50; microworlds/leads-finder $3.00 to $1.00. The prices printed on the Store cards are the top-tier floor, not what most accounts pay.
None of the three states its data source. They market themselves as alternatives to Apollo, ZoomInfo and Lusha rather than as Apollo scrapers, and Apify lists them in that role. Treat coverage as unverified until you trial one against contacts you can already confirm.
An Apollo subscription and its official API. That is the route Apollo's terms permit, and it is the right answer when you specifically need Apollo's contact graph and verified emails. Apify Actors are the better fit when your source is the open web rather than one vendor's database. See Apify pricing to compare the usage-based side.