Data actors on Apify, compared honestly

All prices read 1 September 2026Public Apify store API and vendor pricing pages25 actors · 62 competing actors · 6 vendors

Steadyfetch builds 25 pay-per-event actors on the Apify platform. They share one rule: you are charged only when a row lands in your dataset, and a miss tells you why it was free. These pages put each family next to every competing actor and the main outside vendors, with the same price columns, so you can decide with the numbers in front of you.

Where a competitor is cheaper, the table says so.

Indeed listings, free plan, per 1,000 — read from the store on 1 September 2026.

valig/indeed-jobs-scraper

$0.10

steadyfetch/indeed-jobs-scraper

$6.00

valig's Indeed and Glassdoor actors are the volume leaders and cost a fraction of a cent per listing. If you need raw listings at scale and can de-duplicate and cap on your side, they are hard to beat on price.

Ours charge more per listing and put the controls inside the run: the row cap and deadline stop the run exactly where you set them, the same role found on two boards is one row and one charge, and Glassdoor's employer rating lands on the job row instead of needing a second run.

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Bulk ad transcripts

5 of ours · 16 competing · 2 outside Apify

Which tools turn competitor ads into transcripts and hooks in bulk, what each one returns, and what a thousand ads cost on Apify, Foreplay and ScrapeCreators.

Facebook Ad Library transcripts TikTok Top Ads transcripts LinkedIn Ad Library transcripts Google Ads video transcripts Google Ads creative text (OCR)

Google Trends and keyword data

6 of ours · 10 competing · 2 outside Apify

Google Trends scrapers, SerpApi, Glimpse and keyword search volume actors compared on what they return and what a thousand reports cost.

Google Trends Google Trends Now Breakout keywords Keyword volume and CPC Autocomplete keywords, 5 engines Social trends, 5 platforms

Job listing scrapers

5 of ours · 12 competing

Job board scrapers on Apify compared on price per thousand listings, start fees and what each returns, with career-site and multi-board options.

Indeed jobs Glassdoor jobs with employer rating Google Jobs Career-site jobs by domain Multi-board jobs, de-duplicated

Amazon product data

4 of ours · 9 competing · 1 outside Apify

Amazon scrapers on Apify and the Rainforest API compared on what one product row contains and what a thousand products cost, including add-on events.

Amazon product Amazon search results Amazon bestsellers Amazon seller

Video and audio to text

5 of ours · 15 competing · 1 outside Apify

YouTube caption scrapers, Instagram Reels transcript actors, Whisper-style media transcribers and the Supadata API compared on price per thousand videos or minutes.

YouTube transcripts YouTube channel, all transcripts Speech to text, any link or file Instagram Reels transcripts Instagram profile posts

What every Steadyfetch actor promises

Charged on delivery onlyExpired links, blocked pages, empty results and unreadable media come back as rows with a status and charged: false.
Your caps are exactA result limit of 30 returns 30. A run deadline stops the run cleanly and reports what is left.
No start fees, no minimumsTwo exceptions are stated on their cards: an optional per-minute surcharge on videos longer than three minutes, and optional second events like Indeed descriptions.
ChainableEvery transcript actor accepts another scraper's dataset ID, so you can keep the scraper you already use.
Agent-readyEach actor has a one-click MCP pin link and a REST endpoint; the store's agentic-payments allow-list covers all 25.

Free n8n templates

Import-validated workflows for the ad-transcript, keyword-volume and Instagram actors are at github.com/steadyfetch/n8n-templates. No community nodes, plain HTTP, paste one token.