Apify Pricing Calculator (2026): Plan Floors vs $0.008 Pay per Page
Apify pricing (checked Nov 6, 2026): Free $0 with $5 prepaid usage, Starter $19 with $19 usage at $0.20/CU, Scale $199 with $199 at $0.16/CU, Business $999 with $999 at $0.13/CU. 1 compute unit = 1 GB of RAM for 1 hour. Unused prepaid usage does not roll over. Many Store Actors also bill pay-per-event prices on the Actor page (Instagram Scraper example on the pricing page: $2.30 per 1,000 results on Starter). There is no honest fixed dollars-per-page rate without measuring your Actor — this calculator shows switch402 at $0.008 per successful page next to each Apify plan floor and that published event example, not a fake CU-per-page conversion.
On switch402, 750 successful pages cost $6.00. Apify bills compute units and often pay-per-event Actor prices on top of a monthly plan floor — there is no honest single dollars-per-page number without measuring your Actor. Unused prepaid usage expires at the end of the billing cycle.
Published example on apify.com/pricing (Nov 6, 2026): Instagram Scraper on Starter at $2.30 per 1,000 results (pay-per-event; costs vary by Actor run), plus CU, proxy and storage as billed. 750 results at that event rate alone would be $1.72 before any separate usage line.
| Apify plan | Monthly floor | Prepaid usage | CU price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0.00 | $5 | $0.20 / CU |
| Starter | $19.00 | $19 | $0.20 / CU |
| Scale | $199.00 | $199 | $0.16 / CU |
| Business | $999.00 | $999 | $0.13 / CU |
Sources: apify.com/pricing and docs.apify.com (Actor usage and resources), checked Nov 6, 2026. switch402 has no CU pool.
- No signup or API key
Your agent pays per call over x402.
- No monthly commitment
Nothing to cancel, no unused credits.
- Pay only for successful calls
Charged only after a provider returns content; errors are never charged.
- Automatic failover
If a provider fails, the call goes to the next healthy one.
If every provider fails you get a 502 and are not charged.
How the plans work: Apify credits explained: compute units and Actor burn.
All seven side by side: scraping API pricing compared at 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 pages.
Migrate in a few lines
Live: POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown. $0.008 USDC on Base per call over x402, charged only on success.
# Unpaid request: returns HTTP 402 with the x402 payment requirements
curl -i -X POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H 'user-agent: my-agent/1.0' \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
# Pay $0.008 USDC on Base with any x402 client and retry (see the other tabs).FAQ
- Is switch402 live?
- Yes. POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown for $0.008 USDC on Base per call ($0.003 on /v1/scrape/lite), paid over x402 and charged only on success.
- How much does Apify cost?
- Per apify.com/pricing, checked Nov 6, 2026: Free $0 ($5 usage), Starter $19 ($19 usage, $0.20/CU), Scale $199 ($199, $0.16/CU), Business $999 ($999, $0.13/CU); about 10% less on annual billing. Store Actors may add pay-per-event charges. Proxies, storage and data transfer have separate rates on the same page.
- Why is there no CU-per-page slider?
- Because Apify bills compute time (and often per-event Actor prices), not a fixed credit per HTTP page. The same 1,000 URLs can cost very different CU amounts on a Cheerio crawler versus a Playwright Actor. Inventing a pages-per-CU number would be misleading — run your Actor once and compare to pages × $0.008.
- Is Apify cheaper than switch402?
- It can be on efficient HTTP Actors or low pay-per-event rates at volume, and it can be far more expensive on browser-heavy or proxy-heavy runs, or when prepaid usage expires unused. switch402 wins on predictability and on months with little or no usage (no plan floor).
- Do Apify prepaid credits roll over?
- No. Unused prepaid platform usage expires at the end of the billing cycle, per Apify's pricing FAQ.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Apify's public pricing page (plans, CU prices, prepaid usage, Instagram Scraper event example) and the Actor usage and resources docs (CU definition), fetched Nov 6, 2026, plus switch402's live payment terms.
Read next
More pay-per-call calculators
- Firecrawl pricing calculator
- ScrapingBee pricing calculator
- Jina Reader cost calculator
- ScraperAPI pricing calculator
- ZenRows pricing calculator
- Scrapfly pricing calculator
- Diffbot pricing calculator
- ScreenshotOne pricing calculator
- SerpAPI pricing calculator
- Tavily pricing calculator
- Exa pricing calculator
- switch402 home