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Agents 5.5/10

Genuinely free to deploy and run agents on a permanent $5/month prepaid-usage free plan with no card required, but the $5 is a hard cap (expires month

Free credit
$5
Credit window
30 days
Card required
No

Apify scores 5.5/10 for free value in Agents. The main constraint: Free plan (permanent, no credit card): $5 of prepaid platform usage every billing cycle at $0.20/compute-unit (1 CU = 1 GB RAM/hour), i.e. ~25 CU-hours/month. Includes 8 GB Actor RAM, 25 max concurrent runs, 5 datacenter proxy IPs, community support. Roughly 50-100 Actor runs / MCP tool calls per mo.

Category Agents Kind Managed agent runtime Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

5.5 / 10
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Overall 5.5/10
value = 5.5/100
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Execution 2.4/10
value = 5 $ one-time
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Connectivity 8.3/10
value = 8.3/100
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Production controls 8.8/10
value = 8.8/100
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Key metrics

1/mo Execution quota Uses stated quota when present; otherwise a conservative unpublished-quota floor.
3 Tool/model connectivity integrations, mcp, tool
1 Production controls concurrent
25 cu-hours/mo Free allowance Free plan (permanent, no credit card): $5 of prepaid platform usage every billing cycle at $0.20/compute-unit (1 CU = 1 GB RAM/hour), i.e. ~25 CU-hours/month. Includes 8 GB Actor R
no card Credit card
free quota Free type

What you get

Free plan (permanent, no credit card): $5 of prepaid platform usage every billing cycle at $0.20/compute-unit (1 CU = 1 GB RAM/hour), i.e. ~25 CU-hours/month. Includes 8 GB Actor RAM, 25 max concurrent runs, 5 datacenter proxy IPs, community support. Roughly 50-100 Actor runs / MCP tool calls per mo

Sign up for the free Apify plan (no card). Either build/deploy your own Actor or use Store Actors. Connect an AI agent to the hosted MCP ser

Gotchas

  • 25 cu-hours/mo

    Free plan (permanent, no credit card): $5 of prepaid platform usage every billing cycle at $0.20/compute-unit (1 CU = 1 GB RAM/hour), i.e. ~25 CU-hours/month. Includes 8 GB Actor R

Sources

  • "Free $0 $5 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors $0.2 per compute unit Community support ... No credit card required."

    https://apify.com/pricing

  • "Actor RAM 8 GB | Max concurrent runs 25 | Datacenter proxies 5 IPs included | Support level Community"

    https://apify.com/pricing

  • "If you're on the free plan, your access to Apify's services will be blocked until the beginning of the next monthly cycle. ... Note that unused usage credits are not rolled over to the next billing cycle, and they expire at the end of the billing cycle."

    https://apify.com/pricing

  • "The Apify MCP server allows up to 30 requests per second per user. This limit applies to all operations including Actor runs, storage access, and documentation queries. If you exceed this limit, you'll receive a 429 response"

    https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp
agents agent-deployment hosted free
Open service ← All Agents

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