# Actor Costs (`lukaskrivka/actor-costs`) Actor

Get costs and usage stats for your actor use aggregated daily. The actor also provides summary stats for the whole period.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lukaskrivka/actor-costs.md
- **Developed by:** [Lukáš Křivka](https://apify.com/lukaskrivka) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Open source
- **Stats:** 38 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 3 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

Get costs and usage stats for your actor use aggregated daily. The actor also provides summary stats for the whole period.

It extends data available on https://console.apify.com/billing/usage with

1. Daily usage breakdown
2. Arbitrary time period with summary stats for the whole period
3. Other useful stats - `runCount`, `buildNumbers`, `statuses`, `origins`

*Important*: Run costs are attributed to a specific date based on the start time of the run. The actor does not exactly report the costs per day or month. E.g. if your run runs for 2 days, this actor will report its cost fully to the first day while https://console.apify.com/billing/usage will correctly split the usage into 2 days. The overall usage for a period should be the same.

### Example output

```json
[{
    "date": "2024-02-24",
    "runCount": 1,
    "cost": 0.0086,
    "firstRunDate": "2024-02-24T20:59:22.127Z",
    "lastRunDate": "2024-02-24T20:59:22.127Z",
    "buildNumbers": {
        "0.14.259": 1
    },
    "statuses": {
        "SUCCEEDED": 1
    },
    "origins": {
        "WEB": 1
    }
},
{
    "date": "2024-02-16",
    "runCount": 4,
    "cost": 0.0838,
    "firstRunDate": "2024-02-16T10:02:35.200Z",
    "lastRunDate": "2024-02-16T16:16:02.125Z",
    "buildNumbers": {
        "0.14.258": 2,
        "0.14.257": 2
    },
    "statuses": {
        "SUCCEEDED": 1,
        "FAILED": 1,
        "ABORTED": 2
    },
    "origins": {
        "WEB": 4
    }
}]
```

If you select `getCostBreakdown`, you will receive a detailed breakdown of the costs associated, it can be both platform resources or charged events.

#### Detailed pay-per-compute costs

```json
{
    "costDetail": {
		"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 1.1774,
		"DATASET_READS": 0,
		"DATASET_WRITES": 0.01,
		"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": 0,
		"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": 0.1006,
		"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": 0,
		"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": 0.2793,
		"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": 0.0997,
		"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": 0.0051,
		"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": 0.0036,
		"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": 0,
		"PROXY_SERPS": 0
	},
	"usageDetail": {
		"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 2.9434,
		"DATASET_READS": 0,
		"DATASET_WRITES": 2000,
		"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": 2,
		"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": 2011,
		"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": 0,
		"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": 69833,
		"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": 4983,
		"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": 0.1014,
		"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": 0.0179,
		"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": 0,
		"PROXY_SERPS": 0
	}
}
```

#### Detailed pay-per-event costs

```json
{
    "accountedChargedEventCounts": {
        "actor-start": 33,
        "place-scraped": 553255,
        "filter-applied": 247260,
        "place-details-scraped": 139469,
        "contact-details-scraped": 53091,
        "lead-scraped": 256234,
        "review-scraped": 0,
        "image-scraped": 0
    },
    "chargedEventsCosts": {
        "actor-start": 0.231,
        "place-scraped": 2213.02,
        "filter-applied": 247.26,
        "place-details-scraped": 278.938,
        "contact-details-scraped": 106.182,
        "lead-scraped": 1281.17,
        "review-scraped": 0,
        "image-scraped": 0
    }
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `actorIdOrName` (type: `string`):

Actor ID or full name

## `onlyRunsNewerThan` (type: `string`):

Measured by when the run was started. Use JSON input to specify date with a time in ISO format, e.g. "2024-01-01T12:00:00"

## `onlyRunsOlderThan` (type: `string`):

Measured by when the run was started. Use JSON input to specify date with a time in ISO format, e.g. "2024-01-01T12:00:00"

## `getCostBreakdown` (type: `boolean`):

Very slow since we need to request each run separately

## `getDatasetItemCount` (type: `boolean`):

Very slow since we need to request each run separately

## `parallelCalls` (type: `integer`):

Number of parallel calls to the Apify API to speed up processing. Increasing this number might trigger rate limit warnings. If you see such warnings in the log, reduce the number.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "actorIdOrName": "apify/web-scraper",
  "getCostBreakdown": false,
  "getDatasetItemCount": false,
  "parallelCalls": 5
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "actorIdOrName": "apify/web-scraper"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lukaskrivka/actor-costs").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "actorIdOrName": "apify/web-scraper" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lukaskrivka/actor-costs").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "actorIdOrName": "apify/web-scraper"
}' |
apify call lukaskrivka/actor-costs --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lukaskrivka/actor-costs"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/jqaOGxd9jX4zDX3X9/builds/QIjSjfbMRNxWykJZh/openapi.json