Apify pay-per-event billing: four ways I charged users for nothing I run 51 scrapers on...
Apify pay-per-event billing: four ways I charged users for nothing
I run 51 scrapers on Apify behind seven MCP servers. Agents call them as tools
over the Model Context Protocol:
Claude asks for a company's SEC filings, or Reddit posts about a product, or
open roles at a competitor, and a tool call goes out and comes back with rows.
I built a pay-per-use web scraping API with Claude's help — free to try, $0.01/call after that I'm a...
I built an MCP server that charges AI agents per call using x402 micropayments By...
TL;DR — Moved an Instagram transcript actor from pay-per-result to pay-per-event billing. Three...
From zero to 7 published Apify actors — what I learned about finding zero-competition niches, building with the Python SDK, and…
If you've built an MCP server or any API that costs you money to run (an LLM call, a paid data...
Disclosure: I used AI as an editing/drafting assistant for this post, but the architecture,...
