Apify cut its free tier
Free plan concurrent-run limit cut from 25 to 5; paid tiers unchanged.
What changed
- Free tier cut, Aug 31, 2026
- Before: Free: 25 concurrent runs
- After: Free: 5 concurrent runs
- Existing customers: not stated
Cheaper alternatives to Apify
At 10,000 pages scraped a month, Apify costs $199/mo. 2 web scraping tools cost less:
- Bright Data: $15/mo (Pay as you go: Web Unlocker at $1.5 per 1,000 requests), covers 77% of Apify; missing or partial: URL scraping API (partly), Site crawling (partly), Custom scraper hosting (partly), LLM-ready output (partly), Exports & integrations (partly)
- Firecrawl: $44/mo (Hobby plan at $19/month billed monthly, plus 5,000 extra credits bought at $5 per 1,000), covers 77% of Apify; missing or partial: Pre-built scrapers, Custom scraper hosting (partly), Search engine results (partly), Exports & integrations (partly), No-code visual scraper
Apify alternatives: 2 web scraping tools compared, at every size.
Sources
Every price and change for Apify: Apify.