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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Apify: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify.md",
  "title": "Apify: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Apify is on the social monitoring map. We record 15 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 19, 2026.",
  "period": "Nov. 24, 2023 to Sept. 19, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "apify",
    "name": "Apify",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://apify.com",
    "summary": "Marketplace of third-party scrapers ('Actors') billed per result; includes many LinkedIn post/profile actors, plus an official MCP server so an agent can call any Actor.",
    "founded": 2015,
    "categories": [
      "social-data-api"
    ],
    "status": "active",
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    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Social data APIs and scrapers"
    ]
  },
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  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "Marketplace of third-party scrapers ('Actors') billed per result; includes many LinkedIn post/profile actors, plus an official MCP server so an agent can call any Actor.",
    "source": {
      "name": "apify.com",
      "url": "https://apify.com/"
    },
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  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "social-monitoring",
      "title": "The social monitoring map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Apify",
      "site": "https://apify.com",
      "category": "Social data APIs and scrapers",
      "what": "Marketplace of third-party scrapers ('Actors') billed per result; includes many LinkedIn post/profile actors, plus an official MCP server so an agent can call any Actor.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "apify.com",
        "url": "https://apify.com/"
      },
      "price": "Platform plans: Free $0 ($5 usage); Starter $19; Scale $199; Business $999; actor results billed separately per Actor (see actor rows).",
      "price_published": true,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "Platforms",
        "items": [
          "LinkedIn"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Raised about EUR 2.8M in 2024 from J&T Ventures and Reflex Capital; press reports 200,000+ users.)",
      "founded": "2015",
      "founded_source": {
        "name": "apify.com",
        "url": "https://www.apify.com/about"
      },
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "apify.com",
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        },
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          "name": "apify.com",
          "url": "https://apify.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "name": "apify.com",
          "url": "https://www.apify.com/about"
        }
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      "cross_listed": false
    }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-09-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Rental price replaced by pay-per-event $0.0005 per result",
      "summary": "Price fell from $30/month rental (since 2024-03) to $0.50 per 1,000 results plus a $0.0005 start fee; still needs LinkedIn cookies.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/curious_coder~linkedin-post-search-scraper"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-06-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pay for Apify Actors with x402",
      "summary": "Agents can run and pay for eligible Actors in USDC on Base without an Apify account; blog dated 2026-06-30 says 20,000+ Actors.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify changelog",
        "url": "https://apify.com/change-log"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-06-09",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Announcing MCP connectors",
      "summary": "Actors can use connected apps (Notion, GitHub, Slack) through an MCP proxy without receiving credentials.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify blog",
        "url": "https://blog.apify.com/announcing-mcp-connectors/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-4",
      "on": "2026-06-09",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pay per event: tweet",
      "summary": "$0.0004 per tweet on all Apify tiers including free.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~tweet-scraper"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-5",
      "on": "2026-04-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Fixed monthly rental fees are going away",
      "summary": "Apify said all rental Actors migrate to pay-per-event within six months; 2,000 Actors already moved from pay-per-result to PPE.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify blog",
        "url": "https://blog.apify.com/standardizing-actor-pricing"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-6",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-6",
      "on": "2026-03-09",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Migration to pay-per-event pricing with Apify store tier discounts",
      "summary": "Per-post price stays $0.002 (FREE/BRONZE), falls to $0.00175 SILVER and $0.0015 GOLD+; adds $0.00005 start fee and charges for 0-result queries.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/harvestapi~linkedin-post-search"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-7",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-7",
      "on": "2026-02-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pay per event: tweet",
      "summary": "Moved to pay-per-event: $0.0004/tweet on paid Apify plans, $0.04/tweet on the free plan.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~tweet-scraper"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-8",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-8",
      "on": "2026-02-10",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Is web scraping legal? Apify position updated",
      "summary": "Apify says public data scraping is generally legal; caution for logins and personal data; notes Meta dropped its Bright Data case and X's claims were partly dismissed.",
      "kind": "Policy",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify blog",
        "url": "https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-9",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-9",
      "on": "2025-07-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "LinkedIn Company Posts Scraper (No Cookies)",
      "summary": "Company page post feed at $0.002 per post.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/harvestapi~linkedin-company-posts"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-10",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-10",
      "on": "2025-05-03",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Linkedin Post Search Scraper (No Cookies)",
      "summary": "Keyword/filter LinkedIn post search with no cookies, $0.002 per post. Now 37,017 users.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/harvestapi~linkedin-post-search"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-11",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-11",
      "on": "2025-04-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper (No Cookies)",
      "summary": "Actor created at $0.002 per post, no cookies required.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/harvestapi~linkedin-profile-posts"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-12",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-12",
      "on": "2025-04-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Posts Search Scraper for LinkedIn | No Cookies",
      "summary": "Keyword LinkedIn post search without login at $0.005 per result.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apimaestro~linkedin-posts-search-scraper-no-cookies"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-13",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-13",
      "on": "2025-01-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "First release v0.1.1 of the Apify MCP server (apify/apify-mcp-server, formerly actors-mcp-server)",
      "summary": "First tagged release of the MCP server exposing Actors as tools. Repo created 2025-01-02; 12,819 stars on 2026-10-23.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "GitHub",
        "url": "https://github.com/apify/apify-mcp-server/releases?page=18"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-14",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-14",
      "on": "2024-03-13",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Price per tweet $0.0003",
      "summary": "Price raised from $0.0001 to $0.0003 per tweet ($0.30 per 1k).",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~tweet-scraper"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-15",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apify/#event-15",
      "on": "2023-11-24",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Tweet Scraper V2",
      "summary": "Actor created on Apify; initial price $0.10 per 1,000 tweets (pay per dataset item).",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-apify"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Apify API",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~tweet-scraper"
      }
    }
  ]
}