On June 29, 2026, Apify unified pricing across all four Clockworks TikTok actors. We got the email the next morning at 7:11 AM and ran the audit before the day was done. Here is what we found — with scores, reliability data, and a recommendation by use case.
Apify is making a platform-wide shift from rental (fixed monthly fee) and pay-per-result models to pay-per-event (PPE) pricing. In a recent survey, 73% of Apify customers said they preferred PPE over fixed rentals. For TikTok actors, the June 29 update brought the most dramatic repricing in the suite's history.
| Actor | Actor ID | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok Data Extractor | clockworks/free-tiktok-scraper |
$3.00 | −40% | |
| TikTok Profile Scraper | clockworks/tiktok-profile-scraper |
$3.00 | −25% | |
| TikTok Hashtag Scraper | clockworks/tiktok-hashtag-scraper |
$3.00 | −40% | |
| TikTok Video Scraper | clockworks/tiktok-video-scraper |
$3.00 | −76% ⚡ | |
| Per 1,000 results · Free plan · Effective June 29, 2026 | ||||
The Video Scraper story is the most underreported. At $12.50/1K, most teams bypassed it entirely. At $3.00/1K it is now cost-level with the rest of the suite. If you dismissed it on price before, this changes your calculus.
We used Audit Tools — our own empirical scoring service for the Apify Store — to evaluate all four actors the same morning the newsletter arrived. The audit took about 15 minutes and $0.20 of actor spend. We ran it in metadata mode (free) first, then live probe mode to validate the reliability numbers.
Audit Tools scores actors across 18 criteria: rot check (last modified), schema validity, input schema completeness and documentation, README quality and examples, adoption momentum, run success rate, and more. Each criterion produces a 0–100 score with an evidence sentence. No opinions. No vibes. Every score has a receipt.
| Actor | Score | Rating | Reviews | Total runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ⭐ TikTok Profile Scraper clockworks/tiktok-profile-scraper | 84/100 | 4.92 | 33 | 4.9M |
| TikTok Scraper clockworks/tiktok-scraper | 79/100 | 4.69 | 227 | 71.5M |
| TikTok Data Extractor clockworks/free-tiktok-scraper | 73/100 | 4.70 | 57 | 20M |
| TikTok Hashtag Scraper clockworks/tiktok-hashtag-scraper | 71/100 | 4.90 | 24 | — |
| Scores from Audit Tools metadata + live probe mode · June 30, 2026 | ||||
On June 29, 2026, Apify unified pricing across all four Clockworks TikTok actors as part of its platform-wide shift to pay-per-event (PPE) pricing. TikTok Data Extractor dropped from $5.00 to $3.00 per 1,000 results (−40%). TikTok Profile Scraper dropped from $4.00 to $3.00 (−25%). TikTok Hashtag Scraper dropped from $5.00 to $3.00 (−40%). TikTok Video Scraper saw the largest cut — from $12.50 to $3.00, a 76% reduction. All four now cost $3.00 per 1,000 results on the free plan. This is part of Apify's broader move to eliminate fixed rental fees — 73% of Apify customers said they preferred PPE over flat monthly fees.
No. We audited all four on June 30, 2026 — the morning after the announcement — and found significant differences in reliability, input schema quality, and output field completeness despite identical pricing. The flagship TikTok Scraper scored 79/100 and handles the widest input surface. TikTok Profile Scraper scored 84/100 and has the highest reliability. TikTok Video Scraper has a narrower output schema. Price parity removed the cost signal you used to use to narrow the field. That makes an empirical audit more important, not less.
TikTok Profile Scraper (clockworks/tiktok-profile-scraper) scored 84/100 in our June 30, 2026 audit — the highest of the four actors. It holds a 4.92/5 community rating across 33 reviews, the highest in the suite. The June 2026 update also added follower and following scraping, pushing its capability score above the others. Note: TikTok Scraper has 227 reviews vs 33 for Profile Scraper — if statistical robustness by sample size matters to you, consider that trade-off.
TikTok Profile Scraper (clockworks/tiktok-profile-scraper) has the highest community rating in the Clockworks TikTok suite at 4.92/5 across 33 reviews and showed the lowest 30-day failure rate in our June 2026 audit. If you weight sample size over raw score, TikTok Scraper (clockworks/tiktok-scraper) is more statistically robust with 227 reviews at 4.69/5 across 71.5 million runs.
TikTok Data Extractor (clockworks/free-tiktok-scraper) is the leaner actor — it covers videos, users, and channels via hashtags or full profile scrapes, and runs lighter. TikTok Scraper (clockworks/tiktok-scraper) is the flagship: profiles, videos, hashtags, search queries, and URL-based queries in one actor, with 142,750 users and 71.5 million runs. Before June 2026, TikTok Scraper cost more. Now both are $3.00/1K — the choice is purely about feature fit.
Yes — the price drop from $12.50 to $3.00 per 1,000 videos (−76%) fundamentally changes the calculation. Before June 2026, most teams skipped it entirely on cost. At $3.00/1K it is now cost-competitive with the full suite. It supports subtitle downloads and TikTok-provided transcripts — a capability none of the other three actors match. Output schema is narrower than TikTok Scraper overall, but for transcript-focused workflows, it is now the best value in the suite.
TikTok Profile Scraper (clockworks/tiktok-profile-scraper). It is the only actor in the Clockworks suite that returns follower and following lists in the same run — a capability added in the June 2026 update. It also returns full profile metadata: follower counts, bio links, verified status, and per-video engagement. For vetting influencer authenticity or mapping audience overlap, this is the strongest pick in the suite.
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Apify is making a platform-wide shift from rental (fixed monthly fee) and legacy pay-per-result models to pay-per-event (PPE) pricing. In a survey, 73% of Apify customers preferred PPE over fixed rentals. The argument: an AI agent cannot effectively manage a dozen different fixed-cost subscriptions — a per-result model aligns costs with actual usage and makes agent-driven data pipelines economically viable. The TikTok suite was among the earliest actors to get the unified treatment.
Audit Tools (audit-tools.ai) is an empirical evaluation service for the full Apify Store — 39,000+ actors. It scores actors on 18 criteria: rot check (last modified date), output schema validity, input schema completeness and documentation quality, README length and examples, adoption momentum, run success rate, and more. Scores are based on live metadata probes and — in full mode — actual actor runs. It is agent-native via x402/USDC, meaning AI agents can query it before every task and always run the best actor available today. Metadata mode is free. Full probe mode costs about $0.20 per actor.
Apify pricing will change again. New actors will appear. Existing ones will drift. The audit you run today is only valid until something changes — which is why Audit Tools scores the actor as it exists right now, not as it was when some review was written six months ago.
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