Hi everyone! I’m new to Apify and planning to create multiple actors focused on fast data delivery f
Hi everyone! I’m new to Apify and planning to create multiple actors focused on fast data delivery for users. I was checking the proxy pricing page and I see shared datacenter IPs from $0.6 per IP and dedicated ones from $7 per IP.
I have a few questions:
1. What is the fair usage policy for these datacenter IPs (shared and dedicated)? Is there a bandwidth cap (in GB), or is it unlimited with some throttling applied after a threshold?
2. Do you offer any datacenter proxy plans billed by GB (not residential)? I’m looking for a model where each request uses a different IP to maximize concurrency and deliver results faster.
3. From your experience, would you recommend using Apify proxies or external proxy providers for this kind of use case (many small, parallel requests)?
4. Lastly, I’m evaluating actor monetization models. I’m aware of:
• Pay per result
• Pay per event (like actor start)
• Rental
I think pay per result can be problematic because if the user enters an illogical query like "Adasddsadadjdss", most websites won’t return anything — even though proxy and compute resources were consumed.
So, I’m leaning towards pay per event as a baseline to cover basic costs and prevent a negative balance. What do you recommend?
Thanks in advance! I’m excited to get started and build something valuable.
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