Apify pricing for TikTok scraping: the real cost per profile

How does Apify pricing work?

You pay a monthly plan that turns into usage credit, and each actor draws on that credit at its own price. Starter is $19 a month and gives you $19 of usage; Business is $999 and gives you $999. The plan you are on also sets your Apify Store discount tier, and most TikTok actors charge less per result on higher tiers.

Actors are priced one of two ways. Pay-per-event actors charge a fixed price per result, and Apify says most of them include platform usage in that price. Free actors charge nothing themselves, but you pay for the compute units the run uses. One compute unit is 1 GB of memory for one hour, so the cost per row depends on how fast the actor is, which no listing tells you in advance.

Plans and tiers read from apify.com/pricing on 16 October 2026. Enterprise pricing is custom and not included.

What do 1,000 TikTok profiles cost on Apify?

Between $1.00 and $3.70 of usage, depending on the actor and your plan. The maths is the actor's published price per result multiplied by 1,000, at the discount tier your plan gives you. For example, the Profile Scraper on Starter (Bronze tier) is 1,000 × $0.002 = $2.00.

Two things move the real number. Add-ons cost extra on the Clockworks actors: a date filter, a popularity filter or follower lists each add a charge per result. And the TikTok Scraper returns videos, not people, so a keyword search can bring back the same creator several times and you pay for each row. The Profile Scraper avoids that because you hand it the usernames.

Prices per result from each actor's Apify Store listing on 16 October 2026. Free, Starter, Scale and Business map to the Free, Bronze, Silver and Gold tiers.

What do TikTok profiles really cost on Apify, plan included?

$2.00 to $3.80 per 1,000 on Starter once the $19 plan is counted. The plan is prepaid usage that expires each month, so it works as a floor: below $19 of usage you still pay $19, above it the extra goes on your next invoice at the same tier. At low volume the floor dominates; from about 9,500 profiles a month the Profile Scraper settles at its row price. Free covers about 1,666 profiles ($5 / $0.003) and then stops.

On price per row, Apify wins every line of this table, by about two and a half to five times. That is the honest headline. If you already hold a list of usernames and want their current stats, Apify with Clockworks is the cheapest way we found to refresh it. The rest of this page is about what those rows are, because a Tokfluence profile and a scraped row are not the same thing.

Starter is the cheapest plan for every volume shown: Scale starts at $199. Add-ons and the TikTok Scraper's $0.001 run fee are left out.

What does each Apify TikTok actor return?

Raw public data for the accounts or videos you point it at. None of them finds creators for you: each one starts from usernames, keywords or URLs you already have.

EnsembleData's actor is the odd one out. It takes video URLs only, so it fits a post-tracking job better than a creator list, and because it is a free actor its cost per row is whatever compute it burns. Fetching the same data through EnsembleData's own API is a different, unit-based price list that we cover in the influencer marketing API comparison.

Are you paying for raw rows or for creators you can contact?

With the Clockworks actors, raw rows: you pay for every profile you scrape, including the ones you will discard. The price per 1,000 above is the price before filtering, and the filtering is your job.

Those rows include shops, brand accounts, creators outside your country and creators with no public contact. None of them carries an email field: if the creator wrote an address in their bio, you parse it out yourself. And you still need the usernames to start with, which is the discovery job a scraper does not do.

That is the job the Tokfluence API does. It searches an index of 15M+ TikTok creators by followers, engagement, region, hashtags, brand mentions and "has email", so the profiles you pay for are already the shortlist, and each one carries the contact email when the creator published one.

When is the Tokfluence API worth more than scraping on Apify?

When you need to find creators, not refresh ones you already know. Our plans cost $9.80 to $9.95 per 1,000 profiles, one predictable monthly price with no Apify plan, compute or add-ons on top. The credit buys a filtered creator with the email in the record, not a raw row.

1. Search instead of a list of handles. A scraper needs the usernames or keywords first. Our API filters 15M+ creators on followers, engagement, region, hashtags, brand mentions and "has email" and returns the matches.
2. The email is in the record. Every profile ships the contact email when the creator published one. No bio parsing, no separate enrichment vendor.
3. One price you can budget. Growth is $49 for 5,000 profiles ($9.80 per 1,000), Pro is $99 for 10,000 ($9.90). On Agency ($199) the app, the API and the MCP server share 20,000 credits.
4. Live crawls when a niche is missing. This is the part no scraper does. Our index is not all of TikTok, so when a niche comes back thin, the Tokfluence MCP server (on Agency) can start a live TikTok crawl from the chat for 250 credits, and the new creators are searchable a few hours later. A scraper fetches what you name; the crawl adds creators nobody has named yet.

If you would rather not run the searches at all, the Discovery Service ($499 a month) has our team run them and hand you the lists. Full details are on the TikTok API page and our pricing page. For how our MCP server compares with the others, see the best TikTok MCP servers.

How do you get 1,000 filtered TikTok creators with the Tokfluence API?

Search, filter, take the profiles you want. Only the profiles you take cost a credit.

1. Search: send the niche as a keyword, or as a plain-language brief to the semantic search endpoint.
2. Filter: set region, follower range, engagement rate and "has email" until the list looks like one you would send.
3. Fill the gaps: on Agency, if the niche comes back thin, start a live crawl from the MCP server (250 credits) and search again a few hours later.
4. Take the 1,000: that is 1,000 credits, $9.80 at the Growth rate, with the contact email in each record that has one.

When is Apify the better choice?

When you already know which accounts you want, or you need more than TikTok. Refreshing stats on a list of usernames, a one-off pull, archiving a creator's videos or pulling comments are jobs Apify does cheaply and well, and we would not pretend otherwise.

If you are weighing a database against scraping, the influencer database page shows what each creator record holds.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Apify pricing, plans, usage and Store discount tiers, read 16 October 2026.
• Apify docs: Actors in Store, pricing models.
• Apify docs: usage and resources, compute unit definition.
• Actor listings: TikTok Profile Scraper, TikTok Scraper, EnsembleData TikTok API, read 16 October 2026.
• Tokfluence prices: tokfluence.com/tiktok-api and tokfluence.com/pricing.