This Actor‘s pricing details are outlined in the table below. The unit prices you pay depend on your Apify subscription plan, with higher tiers offering better rates. Visit our pricing page to compare plans and see how much you can save.

Pricing	Free No discount	Starter Bronze discount	Scale Silver discount	Business Gold discount

Result	$0.01 / 1,000	$0.01 / 1,000	$0.01 / 1,000	$0.01 / 1,000
Paper result	$2.00 / 1,000	$2.00 / 1,000	$2.00 / 1,000	$2.00 / 1,000
Actor Start Infrequent	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005
Additional costs
Compute units (CU)	$0.20 / CU	$0.20 / CU	$0.16 / CU	$0.13 / CU
Actor RAM	16 GB	64 GB	256 GB	512 GB
Max concurrent runs	5	32	128	256
Rented Actors		Deducted from prepaid usage	Deducted from prepaid usage	Deducted from prepaid usage
Residential proxies	$8.00 / GB	$8.00 / GB	$7.50 / GB	$7.00 / GB
Datacenter proxies	5 IPs included	30 IPs included then $1.00 / IP	200 IPs included then $0.80 / IP	500 IPs included then $0.60 / IP
Google SERP proxies	$2.50 / 1,000 SERPs	$2.50 / 1,000 SERPs	$2.00 / 1,000 SERPs	$1.70 / 1,000 SERPs
Unblocker	$1.50 / 1,000 requests	$1.50 / 1,000 requests	$1.25 / 1,000 requests	$1.00 / 1,000 requests

This Actor's pricing details are outlined in the table below. The unit prices you pay depend on your subscription plan, with higher tiers offering better rates. Visit our pricing page to compare plans and see how much you can save.

Pricing

Result Single result in the default dataset.	$0.01 / 1,000
Paper result One returned paper: source, title, authors, year, venue, citations, doi, abstract (optional), oa_pdf_url, concepts, url.	$2.00 / 1,000
Actor StartInfrequent Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).	$0.00005
Additional costs
Platform usage Platform usage costs are tied to the Actor's performance in terms of the underlying platform resources it consumes. Learn more	Variable costs cheaper for higher plans.

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