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youtube ↗Lead Generation

Apify scrapers typically require a paid plan to access — realistically the minimum price is $29/month, not $150, right?

You're right about the base plan, and you're not wrong pointing out the inconsistency — but the nuance is you'll likely end up using Apify for pretty much everything since they have so many different scrapers, and once you add up what you actually end up using, it lands closer to $150/month in practice, not because the base plan costs that but because of the scope of what you use it for.

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youtube ↗AI & Automation

Can I run Apify scraping actors on a free plan, or must I buy the paid version? Also, suggest the best alternative to Apify for scraping.

Apify's free plan limits you to about 100 leads per run; you don't need the paid version. Various actors are available: Leads Finder (1.5 $/1K leads), Pipeline Labs' version, and others like Manda that arbitrage lists. My recommendation is to run several actors, test which leads give the highest reply rates with your copy, and stick with the best. If you're budget-constrained, run the free actor multiple times, changing filters each run so you don't re-scrape the same list.

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youtube ↗Pricing

How would you approach the cost stack or workflow for scaling automated outreach with scraping and GPT‑4 parsing?

GPT‑4 token costs are low—about $0.40 per million input tokens, so even a blended rate of $0.50 per million is cheap. The bigger cost is scraping. Firecrawl costs $19/month for 3,000 pages or $99/month for 100,000 pages, making the latter far more cost‑efficient. At roughly $1.70 per thousand pages you can scrape large volumes affordably. Combine a cheap scraper (e.g., Firecrawl’s $1‑$2 per thousand pages) with GPT‑4 for parsing, and keep an eye on token usage. Overall the workflow should stay well under $30 for 2,000 qualified emails, likely closer to $3 when optimized.

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youtube ↗Lead Generation

Abdul asks: When I use the appy scraper, I only get 100 leads. What is this happening to me? This is a problem with the scraper.

No, this isn't a problem with the scraper. You just don't have a paid account. Because you don't have a paid account, it's not allowing you to scrape more than 100 leads. If you want a paid account, I have a discount code, but it just ran out, so that won't work. I'm going to get another discount code for Amplify—fingers crossed, unless they hate me for some reason (I don't see why they would; I've made them hundreds of thousands of dollars). I'll share it with you on the Daily Updates channel and in my community. Once you pay, you're basically buying credits—not spending money and then spending more on leads, but exchanging dollars for credits and working through your credit balance. You don't spend any more money if your lead volume reaches a certain point; they just want to make sure you're not spamming them.

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