Why not just pick a cheaper Facebook Actor on Apify?
Per-result rates exist for some Actors but compute units + proxy bandwidth still apply on top. The cheap-looking ones tend to be community Actors with patchy maintenance.
SocialAPIs vs Apify
Apify charges three meters at once. We charge one.
Pricing verified June 2026. All claims linked to a source at the bottom of the page.
What Apify actually is
Apify is a marketplace of 15,000+ community and first-party Actors. Social scraping is one category. You also see Google Maps, e-commerce, real estate, and a lot more — anyone can publish.
Pricing reality
Three meters stack at once on Apify, plus a fourth (residential proxy bandwidth) that quietly dominates the bill on protected targets. Social platforms are among the most protected.
- Subscription: Free ($5 credits), Starter $29, Scale $199, Business $999 / month.
- Compute Units (~1 GB-hour of memory): $0.13–$0.20 each. Scales non-linearly with run time + memory + target difficulty.
- Per-result event fees set by each Actor — charged on top of compute.
- Residential proxy bandwidth — usually the biggest hidden cost on social targets.
Facebook lives across separate Actors at separate rates
| Apify Actor | Rate |
|---|---|
| Facebook Pages Scraper | from $6.60 / 1,000 pages |
| Facebook Page Contact Info | from $6.60 / 1,000 results |
| Facebook Posts Scraper | $2 / 1,000 posts |
| Facebook Ads Scraper | $3.40 / 1,000 ads |
| Facebook Groups Scraper | $2.60 / 1,000 posts |
Where the complexity bites
- •Pick the right Actor out of many similarly-named ones. People do mis-pick.
- •Two-layer billing means the dashboard can look calm while a pay-per-result Actor is quietly burning through your budget.
- •Community Actors break when targets change their HTML. You're waiting on a stranger's response time.
“$6.60 per 1,000 Facebook pages is just the sticker. Add compute units, proxy bandwidth, and the per-Actor fee and you're stacking three meters. We're one flat rate — Pages, Posts, Comments, Reels, all on one key.”
SocialAPIs vs Apify — side by side
| SocialAPIs | Apify | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Purpose-built social | Marketplace (social is one category) |
| Pricing model | Flat per request | Subscription + compute + per-result + proxy |
| Facebook Pages rate | ~$1.49 / 1,000 requests | from $6.60 / 1,000 (+ stacked meters) |
| Schema across endpoints | Same shape every time | Per-Actor, varies |
| Maintenance | We maintain everything | Community-Actor risk |
Effective price math
Pro is $179/mo for 120,000 requests — about $1.49/1K. Apify's cheapest Facebook Pages Actor starts at $6.60/1K before compute and proxy are added. The headline gap is about 4.4×, and proxy bandwidth on a hard target widens it from there.
Frequently asked
Apify has an MCP integration too — what's the difference?
Apify's MCP lets an agent call Actors as tools. Schema differs per Actor, so the agent has to disambiguate. Our MCP server exposes one consistent set of social endpoints with one schema.
When should I use Apify instead?
For one-off scrapes of long-tail targets outside social — Google Maps, niche e-commerce, real estate. The marketplace shines there.
Verify everything we said
All competitor pricing was checked against the live pages in June 2026. Pricing changes often — re-verify before making a buy decision based on these numbers.
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