Apify MCP
Apify MCP: Turns Apify Store Actors into MCP tools at mcp.apify.com, with OAuth or a bearer token and a keyless mode for search and docs tools only. Remote transport: Streamable HTTP and stdio. Price read 4 November 2026: No separate MCP price.
Fact sheet
| Product | Apify MCP |
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| Operator | Apify |
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| Kind | host |
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| Home | docs.apify.com |
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| Pricing | No separate MCP price; Actor runs are the billable unit (read 2026-11-04). (source, read 4 November 2026) |
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| In this directory | Apify: sign-in required, tools not seen, not counted |
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| Vendor profile | Apify |
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Rubric
Apify MCP on the host and registry rubric| Dimension | Value | Evidence | Source |
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| Remote transport | Streamable HTTP and stdio | Per docs, as stated on the source page. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| OAuth with client registration | OAuth | Browser opens on first connection. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Per-tool auth scoping | tools parameter selects Actors | Full-permission Actors excluded. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Hosting and scale limits | Actor run limits | Not MCP specific. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Observability | run status and storage IDs | Through call-actor. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Pricing | per Actor run | Per docs, as stated on the source page. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Registry submission | Apify Store for Actors | Actors become tools by name. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Discoverability by agents | search-actors tool | Agents find Actors at run time. | docs.apify.com, read 2026-11-04 |
| Own server in the registries | yes | com.apify/apify-mcp-server active. | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, read 2026-11-04 |
What it does not do
- Does not return Actor results from call-actor directly.
- Does not expose full-permission Actors to search or execution.
Dated facts
- Hosted endpoint https://mcp.apify.com over Streamable HTTP; a local stdio option runs with npx @apify/actors-mcp-server on Node.js 18+. (docs.apify.com, read 4 November 2026)
- Authentication is OAuth (recommended) or Authorization: Bearer with an APIFY_TOKEN. (docs.apify.com, read 4 November 2026)
- Without an account, only search-actors, fetch-actor-details, search-apify-docs and fetch-apify-docs may be enabled. (docs.apify.com, read 4 November 2026)
- call-actor returns run status and storage IDs, not results; get-dataset-items reads the output. (docs.apify.com, read 4 November 2026)
- Per-request payments through Skyfire work only with pay-per-event Actors. (docs.apify.com, read 4 November 2026)
- Ora lists apify.com at 96 on its leaderboard (4 Nov 2026 sample). (ora.ai, read 4 November 2026)
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