Apify Cost Tuning

Overview

Apify charges on three axes: compute units (CU), proxy traffic (GB), and storage. One CU = 1 GB of memory running for 1 hour, so cost scales with both memory allocation and run duration. This skill walks the investigate → tune → guard loop that finds where spend is going, cuts it at the biggest lever (memory), and installs guardrails so it stays down.

Full pricing tables (plan CU prices, proxy rates, storage rules) live in pricing-model.md.

Prerequisites

• An Apify account with API access and APIFY_TOKEN set in the environment.
• The apify-client package installed (npm install apify-client).
• At least one Actor with run history to analyze.

Instructions