Apify
Based on public pricing signals, xpay verified that Apify exposes machine-readable pricing, transparent per-Compute-Unit cost ($0.20/CU on Free, falling to $0.13/CU on Business), and a no-credit-card $5 pay-as-you-go starting balance. The remaining gap is the absence of a /.well-known/ai-pricing.json discovery file and a one-shot anonymous PPU checkout outside of an account.
Flexible plan + pay as you go
$0.20/CU (Free/Starter), $0.16 (Scale), $0.13 (Business)
$0
$29
per monthSelf-serve
Self-serve
How Apify scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
25 / 25
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
8 / 10
Unauth automated payment
6 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
84 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Apify?
Discover price
https://apify.com/pricing — full tier table, headline "Flexible plan + pay as you go"Select a plan
Four programmatically distinguishable tiers (Free, Starter $29, Scale $199, Business $999)Pay per task
Per-CU billing on every tier ($0.20 → $0.13)Avoid a sales call
All tiers self-serve checkoutAPI docs without auth
docs.apify.com publicly accessibleEstimate cost upfront
Per-CU rate visible; per-actor CU consumption not declared upfront on actor pagesPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-04. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Apify could lift its score
Apify is already Verified. Two missing points: (1) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json; (2) allow anonymous one-shot PPU purchase via xpay widget on /pricing. Both lift to 100/100.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Flexible plan + pay as you go |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 29 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | $5 credit, no card |
| per_unit_price | $0.20/CU (Free/Starter), $0.16 (Scale), $0.13 (Business) |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 4 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.apify.com |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Apify
84
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Data & Scraping APIs
Flexible plan + pay as you go
4
Yes
$5 credit, no card
$29/mo
$0.20/CU (Free/Starter), $0.16 (Scale), $0.13 (Business)
4 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-04