Apify by Apify
Platform of ready-made scrapers (Actors) plus serverless runtime and proxies for web data.
Scraping and crawling Official MCP server
Price
Free plan
paid plans from $19/mo
Free tier
Yes
$5/month of platform usage, no credit card
SDK downloads
1M
npm apify-client · PyPI apify-client
Status
Up
1 incident in 30 days
Pricing
| Free tier | $5/month of platform usage, no credit card |
|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $19 a month |
| Usage price | $0.20 per compute unit (1 GB RAM-hour) on Free/Starter, $0.16 Scale, $0.13 Business; residential proxy $8/GB |
| Good to know | Plans are prepaid usage plus pay-as-you-go overage; unused usage does not roll over. Store Actors are often priced per result by their authors, so cost per page depends on the Actor. Crawlee (its scraping library) is open source, but the platform is not self-hostable. Apify also accepts x402 payments. |
From the official pricing page, checked Oct 9, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.
Use it from an agent
| MCP server | Official: @apify/actors-mcp-server |
|---|---|
| npm | npm install apify-client |
| PyPI | pip install apify-client |
| GitHub | apify/apify-client-python · 99 stars · last push Oct 9, 2026 |
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