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Apify Website Content Crawler
The most-used Markdown crawler on Apify, and a genuinely free Actor: the store API reports its pricing model as FREE, so unlike most Store listings there is no per-result or per-event fee at all. That does not make it free to run. Everything it costs comes from the platform underneath, and the platform does not sell pages: it sells compute units at $0.20 an hour-gigabyte and residential traffic at $8 a gigabyte, drawn down against a plan allowance that is a dollar figure, not a call count. So the floor is real even though the Actor is free: $0 buys you $5 of usage a month, and the next step up is $19, then $199, then $999, and each step mainly buys a cheaper compute rate ($0.16, then $0.13) plus more RAM and concurrency. Two lines on its own price table are quoted per request, the Unblocker at $1.50 per 1,000 and Google SERP proxies at $2.50 per 1,000, but neither is what this crawler charges for a page. Because nothing here is priced per page, the whole row is blank rather than guessed, and that is the honest answer for a marketplace Actor billed in CPU time. Nowhere does Apify promise that only successful responses are billed, which is what you would expect from a meter that counts CPU time rather than results. Worth knowing before you budget: in the last 30 days of public runs, 73,000 of 3.2 million ended TIMED-OUT and another 23,000 FAILED.
Plain page, by volume
| Pages per month | Monthly bill | Per 1,000 | Cheapest route | Allowance unused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1k | cost not published | - | - | - |
| 10k | cost not published | - | - | - |
| 100k | cost not published | - | - | - |
| 1M | cost not published | - | - | - |
How Apify Website Content Crawler compares
Apify Website Content Crawler publishes no price at 10,000 pages a month: cost not published. The cheapest published route here costs $0.130 per 1,000 and AnyAPI costs $0.700.
| Provider | 1k a month | 10k a month | 100k a month | 1M a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Z  Zyte API | $0.130 | $0.130 | $0.130 | $0.100 |
A  AnyAPI | $0.700 | $0.700 | $0.700 | $0.700 |
N  Nimble | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| A Apify Website Content Crawler | cost not published | cost not published | cost not published | cost not published |
List prices, dollars per 1,000 Plain pages at the cheapest published route to each volume. How this is worked out
Every published plan
| Plan | Price | Included requests | Overage each | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 per month | 0 | hard cap | $5 of platform usage a month, no credit card. Compute $0.20/CU, Actor RAM up to 16 GB, 5 concurrent runs, residential proxy $8.00/GB, 5 datacenter IPs. includedUnits is 0 because Apify includes a dollar allowance, not a number of pages, and publishes no page figure for this Actor. |
| Starter | $19.00 per month | 0 | not published | $19/month of included platform usage, $17/month billed annually. Bronze Store discount tier, but this Actor has no Store price to discount. Compute still $0.20/CU, RAM up to 64 GB, 32 concurrent runs, residential $8.00/GB, 30 datacenter IPs then $1.00 each. includedUnits is 0 for the same reason as Free. |
| Scale | $199 per month | 0 | not published | $199/month of included platform usage, $179/month billed annually. Silver tier: compute drops to $0.16/CU, RAM to 256 GB, 128 concurrent runs, residential $7.50/GB, 200 datacenter IPs then $0.80 each, Unblocker $1.25 per 1,000 requests. |
| Business | $999 per month | 0 | not published | $999/month of included platform usage, $899/month billed annually. Gold tier: compute $0.13/CU, RAM to 512 GB, 256 concurrent runs, residential $7.00/GB, 500 datacenter IPs then $0.60 each, Unblocker $1.00 per 1,000 requests. |
| Enterprise | on request | - | not published | Apify lists no price above Business, and the Actor's own Pricing tab stops at the Gold column. No list price. |
Every vertical is null, and the reason is the more interesting half of this record. Unlike most Apify Store Actors, this one carries no per-result and no per-event price of its own: the store API reports its pricing model as FREE and the listing says only "Pay per usage". Its Pricing tab is therefore the Apify platform rate card, and none of those lines is a page. Compute is $0.20 per compute unit (1 CU = 1 GB of RAM for 1 hour), falling to $0.16 on Scale and $0.13 on Business. Residential proxy traffic is $8.00/GB, $7.50 on Scale, $7.00 on Business. Datacenter proxies come as included IP counts (5 Free, 30 Starter, 200 Scale, 500 Business) and then $1.00, $0.80 or $0.60 per extra IP. Two lines on that table are per request, but neither is this crawler: Google SERP proxies at $2.50 per 1,000 SERPs and the Unblocker at $1.50 per 1,000 requests ($1.25 Scale, $1.00 Business). Turning CPU hours and gigabytes into a per-page rate would mean inventing both an average page size and an average render time, so the cells stay blank. The crawler itself offers adaptive switching, a headless Firefox/Playwright browser and raw HTTP, and returns Markdown, plain text or full HTML, all at the same platform rates.
Cost by kind of fetch
Per 1,000, at 10,000 pages a month.
What it can do
Only what the provider's own pages state.
Where these numbers came from
- https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler read 2026-09-14 / store listing: "Pricing: Pay per usage", Apify as developer and maintainer, 157K total users and 11K monthly active, 4.6 from 233 reviews, and the description "supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files"
- https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler/pricing read 2026-09-14 / the Actor's Pricing tab, which prints the platform rate card per plan column: compute units $0.20 / $0.20 / $0.16 / $0.13 per CU, Actor RAM 16 / 64 / 256 / 512 GB, max concurrent runs 5 / 32 / 128 / 256, residential proxies $8.00 / $8.00 / $7.50 / $7.00 per GB, datacenter proxies 5 / 30 / 200 / 500 IPs included then $1.00 / $0.80 / $0.60 per IP, Google SERP proxies $2.50 / $2.50 / $2.00 / $1.70 per 1,000 SERPs, Unblocker $1.50 / $1.50 / $1.25 / $1.00 per 1,000 requests. No per-result or per-event line for the Actor itself
- https://api.apify.com/v2/store?search=website%20content%20crawler read 2026-09-14 / unauthenticated Apify store API. apify/website-content-crawler returns currentPricingInfo {"pricingModel": "FREE"}, confirming the Actor charges nothing of its own. Rival crawlers in the same search do carry prices, for example parseforge/website-content-crawler at $0.025 per result on the Free tier and 6sigmag/fast-website-content-crawler at $0.003 per result plus $0.0015 per Actor start
- https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~website-content-crawler read 2026-09-14 / pricingInfos is null; defaultRunOptions memoryMbytes 8192 and timeoutSecs 360000; input schema fields crawlerType (adaptive switching, headless browser Firefox+Playwright, raw HTTP) and proxyConfiguration ("Enables loading the websites from IP addresses in specific geographies and to circumvent blocking"); 30-day public run stats 3,099,133 succeeded of 3,207,115, with 72,997 timed out and 23,282 failed
- https://apify.com/pricing read 2026-09-14 / platform plans Free $0 with $5 usage, Starter $19 ($17 annual), Scale $199 ($179), Business $999 ($899); "Save 10% on paid plans when billed annually"; "Unused usage credits are not rolled over to the next billing cycle, and they expire at the end of the billing cycle"
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