Monthly rental for Actors you run hard.
Monthly rental plus usage. Once you pull a lot of rows, that bill stays under paying per result.
- Flat-rate
- The rental stays flat as the rows add up
- 25%
- lower compute than other Apify-compatible stores
- 1 line
- to point your integration at Bytewells
- $5
- of free compute credit when you sign up
Why rent on Bytewells
Your rent funds the Actor
90%* of every rental and pass goes to the developer who maintains the Actor, so they are paid to keep it working and improving. Bytewells keeps 10%.
Compute 25% cheaper
Runs cost $0.15 per compute unit, against $0.20 on Apify Starter and $0.13 on Business. Billed per second from prepaid credit, separately from the rental, with no platform plan required.
One-line migration
Change baseUrl in apify-client. Your inputs, datasets, and downstream code keep working.
Same developer, same support
Actors are published by the developers who built them on Apify, from the same source code. The people you already go to for fixes and support maintain them here.
For the Actors you run at volume
Paying per result wins on a light Actor. Once a month of rows crosses the listing's threshold, monthly rental plus usage costs less. Keep everything else on Apify.
Keep on Apify
- Pay-per-event Actors
- Proxies and your existing account
- Anything you don't rent
Rent on Bytewells
- Actors you run at volume, by the month
- Compute at $0.15 per CU
- The same developers and source code
How renting works
- 01
Find your Actor
Each listing shows its price, README and input schema before you sign up.
- 02
Rent it or pass it
Rent by the month when you run an Actor hard. A pass covers a short window when you do not. There is no platform subscription on top.
- 03
Change one line
Point your integration at Bytewells. Inputs, datasets, and the code that reads them keep working.
What you pay
The rental is fixed for the month. Compute is the only line that follows usage, billed from prepaid credit at $0.15 per compute unit (25% less than Apify Starter). At high volume, rental plus compute stays under a per-result bill.
$20.00/mo rental plus compute at $0.15/CU vs Google Maps Scraper pay-per-event (FREE tier). Assumes 5 reviews per place for CU; median 0.00496 CU/place (127 runs, Sep 2026). At this volume, about $37.56 less than Store event charges.
Popular actors
Monthly rentals you can run on the same Apify API—pick a listing to see price and schema.
The Apify API you already use
Bytewells implements the parts of the Apify platform that production scrapers depend on.
Actors and runs
Start, abort and poll runs through the same /v2 endpoints apify-client calls.
Datasets
Push items from the Actor, page through them as JSON or CSV from your pipeline.
Key-value stores
INPUT, OUTPUT and other records land where the Apify SDK expects them.
Request queues
Crawlee request queues work unchanged.
Schedules
Cron schedules for daily or weekly scrapes, managed through the same API.
Webhooks
Get notified when a run succeeds or fails.
Questions
Do I have to leave Apify?+
No. Keep Apify for light use and for anything you do not rent. Move the Actors you run at volume.
Where does my money go?+
90%* of every rental and pass charge goes to the Actor's developer; Bytewells keeps 10%. Compute is billed separately at $0.15 per compute unit from prepaid credit.
What if I only need an Actor for a few hours?+
Where the developer offers passes, pay for a Flash (1 hour), Burst (24 hours) or Sprint (7 days) window instead of a month. Pay per use and charges stop at the next tier's price, with the window starting at your first use, so you never pay more than a tier's price within its window.
Can my AI agent buy access on its own?+
Yes. Turn on auto-buy once and your agent's runs buy and cap passes as they go, paid from prepaid credit. A run without access gets a machine-readable offer with prices and the endpoints to buy. Agents and MCP clients use the same Apify-compatible API; a Bytewells MCP server is on the roadmap.
Is it the same Actor I use on Apify?+
Yes. Developers import their Actors from Apify with their own account, so the source code, README and input schema are the same, and the same people maintain it.
How hard is the switch?+
Change baseUrl in apify-client and use your Bytewells token. Actors built with the Apify SDK or Crawlee run unchanged.
Can I try an Actor before paying?+
Developers set a free trial of up to 30 days on each monthly rental; the default is 3 days. Passes have no trial, but a Flash pass lets you test for an hour. New accounts also get $5 of compute credit.
Built an Actor on Apify?
List it here too, set your own prices and keep 90%* of every rental and pass.
Rent the Actors you run at volume.
Each listing shows the row count where monthly rental wins. Developer signup is open.