ScrapeField
Nobody buys “Apify”. They buy a scraper someone published on it, and the scraper sets the price. So the useful question is not what Apify costs but what the actor you would actually run costs. We checked the store listings on 21 September 2026.
| Actor | Model | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps Scraper | pay per event | from $1.50 per 1,000 places |
| Instagram Scraper | pay per event | $2.70 per 1,000 on the free plan, $1.50–$1.90 at scale |
| TikTok Scraper | pay per event | from $1.70 per 1,000 |
| LinkedIn profiles (seven actors) | pay per result | $1.50 to $12.00 per 1,000 |
The popular actors are predictable now
Apify has two models. Pay per usage bills compute, memory, storage and proxies, which you cannot know in advance. Pay per event is a fixed price per result, set by the actor’s author. Every high-traffic actor above uses pay per event, so for those, the old complaint that an Apify bill cannot be forecast is no longer true. We used to say it. We stopped.
Where Apify is cheaper
At $1.50 per 1,000 places, the Google Maps actor costs less than our smallest pack, where the same 1,000 places cost $2.34. On our largest pack they cost $1.20. If you are running a small, steady Maps workload, Apify may be the cheaper choice, and you should use it.
What the price does not tell you
There is no single price for a LinkedIn profile on Apify. There are seven listings between $1.50 and $12.00, with seven response shapes and seven maintainers. The one you pick decides your price, your schema, and who fixes it when LinkedIn changes. None of them publishes a success rate.
That is the trade. We cover four surfaces instead of thousands, with one price per endpoint, one documented schema for each platform, one maintainer — us — and a status page with our name on it. The full comparison includes the rows where we lose.