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01 · Pricing · AU edition

Start free.Pay per action.

0.018¢

per action, after 100,000 free a month

Up to 0.03¢ on Starter · from 0.016¢ in a bucket · searches, checks and cached answers free

You pay only when a request reaches a vendor. Tool calls, our compute and cached answers are never billed.

100,000 free calls a month · No card · Billed in AUD

Start in a minute: add one URL to Claude, Cursor or VS Code, or press Start free.

02 · Your number

What would you pay?

Set the month you expect. The cheapest plan that fits is the recommendation, and the cards below follow it. Nothing is assumed, least of all a cache hit rate.

  1. 100KFree stops
  2. 750KPro
  3. 2.7MTeam
  4. 14MBusiness

The same month on every plan

  1. Freehard stop at 100,000
  2. StarterA$79
  3. ProA$229
  4. TeamA$599
  5. Business · annualA$1,799
  6. Enterprise · annualfrom A$4,500

Recommended

Starterfor 100K–750K calls a month

A$79 a month

Billed in AUD

Plan base
A$79 · 250,000 calls included
Past that
0 calls × A$0.30 per 1,000 = A$0
Effective
A$0.32 per 1,000 · A$0.00032 per call

Also free this month

  • 0 cached answers · A$0
  • every check, find_actions, get_action, cost, help
  • every failure you did not cause: 401, 403, 429, 5xx, timeouts, anything rejected before it left

Prepaid blocks never expire and carry a bonus: A$750 +3% · A$3,750 +6% · A$15,000 +10%.

Billed in AUD. Prices exclude GST. GST is added to Australian invoices. Minimum invoice A$10. Overage is billed at your plan's published per-1,000 rate. There is no overage premium.

03 · Plans

Six plans.
One meter.
Never a difference
in control.

Every plan includes every connector, ask, plans, schedules, approvals, per-key caps and the full record. Plans differ in volume, connections, enabled schedules, how long each run's request and response are kept, the Dedicated IP, the availability target and support. Never in control, and never by the number of people.

  • Free

    the sandbox: a real tenant, production allowed

    A$0 / month

    No card. No signup.

    100,000 calls a monthhard stop, no overage

    • 3 connections
    • 10 enabled schedules
    • Run traces kept 24 hours
    • Docs and community support
    Start free100,000 free calls
  • Recommended100K–750K calls

    Starter

    for one agent and ten systems

    100K–750K calls

    A$79 / month

    Billed in AUD

    250,000 calls a monththen A$0.30 per 1,000

    • 10 connections
    • 25 enabled schedules
    • Run traces kept 72 hours
    • Docs and community; email for billing and outages
  • Pro

    for a product team in production

    A$229 / month

    Billed in AUD

    750,000 calls a monththen A$0.28 per 1,000

    • 25 connections
    • 100 enabled schedules
    • Run traces kept 7 days
    • Email support, 2 business days
  • Team

    for a team of agents across a client book

    A$599 / month

    Billed in AUD

    2,000,000 calls a monththen A$0.25 per 1,000

    • 100 connections
    • 250 enabled schedules
    • Run traces kept 14 days
    • Dedicated IP add-on, A$229 a month
    • 99.9% availability target
    • Email support, 1 business day
  • Business

    for an operation that runs on it

    A$1,799 / month

    Billed in AUD

    5,000,000 calls a monththen A$0.20 per 1,000

    • 1,000 connections
    • 2,500 enabled schedules
    • Run traces kept 30 days
    • Dedicated IP add-on, A$229 a month
    • 99.9% availability target
    • Email support, 4 business hours
    • Annual agreement
  • Enterprise

    for a named engineer and an agreement

    fromA$4,500 / month

    Billed in AUD

    15,000,000 calls a monththen A$0.18 per 1,000

    • Connections by agreement
    • 5,000 enabled schedules, more by agreement
    • Run traces kept 30 days
    • 1 Dedicated IP included
    • 99.9% availability target
    • A named engineer
    • Annual agreement

No seats: people and agents are never counted, on any plan.

Billed in AUD. Prices exclude GST. GST is added to Australian invoices. Business and Enterprise are annual agreements. Choose a plan and we set it on your tenant, then confirm by email; nothing is charged until then.

04 · The meter

Free, until a request
reaches a vendor.

A$0

Always free

  • Cached answers. The cache is shared across your account.
  • find_actions, get_action, help: every search and schema.
  • check, cost, account: planning, keys, connections, caps.
  • The price book.
  • Every failure you did not cause: 401, 403, 429, 5xx, timeouts, and anything rejected before it left.

Free is in the terms, not in a promotion.

1 call

Billed per upstream call

  • Each request actually sent to a vendor by do or ask.
  • An ask bills the calls it made and nothing for the join.
  • Long lists bill each page fetched, and the estimate says so first.
  • A probe to confirm whether a write landed.

Every response carries AL-Calls, AL-Micros and AL-Cache. The meter is on the response, not the invoice.

05 · Buckets

Big months,
in buckets.

On Business and Enterprise, a bucket prices a whole month at a set volume: the plan, plus every action past its allowance at the bucket's own rate, from A$0.18 per 1,000 at 10M a month down to A$0.16 at 50M. Past the bucket, your plan's published rate applies. There is no overage premium. Above 50M a month is by agreement.

  1. 10MBusinessA$2,7000.018¢ eachA$99 (4%)
  2. 25MBusinessA$5,2000.017¢ eachA$599 (10%)
  3. 50MEnterpriseA$10,1000.016¢ eachA$700 (6%)

Prepaid blocks

Pay ahead at the Starter rate, get more actions, never lose them. Blocks never expire. Set up by email, like a plan.

Starter rateA$150500K actions
+3%A$7502.58M actions
+6%A$3,75013.3M actions
+10%A$15,00055M actions

06 · Elsewhere

What a thousand actions
cost elsewhere.

List prices on annual billing at 100,000 and 1,000,000 actions a month, per 1,000 actions. Our row is this edition's list in AUD; the others are in US dollars unless marked. An action here is one request that reaches a vendor's API. Each platform counts something slightly different; see the notes. Prices checked 21 October 2026.

PlatformPlan usedWhat one unit isAt 100,000At 1MFree allowance
actionlakeFree at 100,000; Pro at 1Mone call that reaches a vendor 1A$0.00A$0 a monthA$0.299A$299 a month100,000 actions a month, no card
ZapierProfessionalone successful action step 2US$4.89US$2.20100 tasks a month
Make *Core at 150,000 credits; Pro at 1,000,000one module run 3US$0.99US$0.751,000 credits a month
n8n Cloud *Pro at 50,000 executionsone run of a whole workflow 4€1.20no public price1,000 executions, trial
PipedreamStartupone credit per 30 s of compute per action 5US$11.79US$11.98development only
ArcadeTeam, US$25 plus usageone tool call, plus US$0.10 per sign-in event 6US$10.25US$10.032,000 tool calls a month

Free with us, on every plan: searching the catalogue, checking a call before it runs, planning, cached answers, and every call that failed for a reason you did not cause.

  1. actionlake bills one upstream call: a request we sent to a vendor that came back with a definitive response. Searching the catalogue, checking a call before it runs, planning, cached answers, failed calls and retries are not billed.
  2. A Zapier task is one successful action step. Triggers, polling, filters, paths and formatting steps are not counted, so a Zap often bills fewer tasks than it has steps. A Zapier MCP tool call draws two tasks. Zapier's pay-per-task overage is 1.25 times the plan rate on annual billing.
  3. A Make credit is one module run. Routers and error handlers are free; iterators, aggregators and transforms each cost a credit, so a scenario may spend more than one credit per vendor call. Make's price list has no 100,000 step; the 150,000 Core tier is shown at the rate for 100,000 actually used.
  4. An n8n execution is one run of a whole workflow, however many steps. We assume five steps per run and count all five as actions. n8n prices in euros, so its figure is in euros; a public cloud price covering a million actions a month was not published on the day.
  5. A Pipedream credit covers 30 seconds of compute for one action or tool call; a single API call fits in one credit. Pipedream also bills US$2 per external user above 100 on Connect.
  6. Arcade bills US$0.01 per tool call plus US$0.10 per sign-in event; the figure counts tool calls only and leaves sign-in events out, so it is a floor (one sign-in per hundred calls would add US$1.00 per 1,000).

* Make and n8n Cloud: from a third-party price listing: the vendor's page rendered no figure on the day.

What these platforms do well.Zapier has the broadest app library and the most mature trigger model.Make's visual builder and dense credit ladder are good value for hand-built scenarios.n8n can be self-hosted for the price of a server, and its workflows are open.Pipedream gives you a full code runtime around each action.Arcade handles the sign-in to each tool for the agent and keeps the tokens. actionlake has no event triggers: agents and schedules start the work, and a scheduled plan that asks what is new since the last run covers most trigger cases.

Microsoft Power Automate is priced per person, not per action, so it is not on this table. Workato, Tray and Paragon publish no prices. Figures are list prices from each vendor's own pricing page on the date shown; they change, and we re-check before each update of this page.

07 · Add-ons

One address.
Yours alone.

Flat monthly lines, prorated per second, sold on their own. We add one to your account on request; from then on you switch it on, recycle it and remove it yourself.

Add-on

Dedicated IP

A$229 / month per address, prorated per second

Available on Team and above; Enterprise includes one. Billed in AUD. Prices exclude GST. GST is added to Australian invoices.

One static IPv4 address, private to your account, in Sydney (syd1).

  • Private to you. The address and the server behind it serve your account and no other customer.
  • The one address to allow-list. Every request actionlake sends to your vendors leaves from it: token refreshes, every page, every retry.
  • Fails closed. When the address is unavailable, requests are refused, never billed, and never sent from a shared address.
  • Carries HTTPS vendors on ports 443, 80 and any port from 1024 up, and MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis connections on the same ports, with the database's own TLS end to end. Other ports below 1024 and plain http are refused.
  • Recycle without the address changing. Delete it and the address is kept for you for 30 days.

A question about your network path, or an allow-list a vendor sent you? Ask us.

08 · The price book

Published, versioned,
readable by your agent.

Every number on this page comes from one public document, served without a key. Your agent, or your procurement team, can price a month of work before anyone signs anything, and the cost tool reads the same file. Any change carries 60 days' notice.

GET https://api.actionlake.com/v1/price-book

{
  "version": "2026-10-24",
  "currency": "AUD",
  "notice_period_days": 60,
  "plans": [
    {
      "id": "free",
      "base_month": 0,
      "included_calls": 100000,
      "per_1000": null
    },
    {
      "id": "starter",
      "base_month": 79,
      "included_calls": 250000,
      "per_1000": 0.3
    },
    {
      "id": "pro",
      "base_month": 229,
      "included_calls": 750000,
      "per_1000": 0.28
    },
    {
      "id": "team",
      "base_month": 599,
      "included_calls": 2000000,
      "per_1000": 0.25
    },
    {
      "id": "business",
      "base_month": 1799,
      "included_calls": 5000000,
      "per_1000": 0.2
    },
    {
      "id": "enterprise",
      "base_month": 4500,
      "included_calls": 15000000,
      "per_1000": 0.18
    }
  ],
  "minimum_invoice": 10,
  "prepaid_expiry": "none",
  "tax": "Prices exclude GST. GST is added to Australian invoices."
}

09 · Questions

Asked before
anyone pays.

Real answers. Each one is a sentence from the price book or the code.

Are cached answers really free?

Yes, in the terms. A cached answer makes no call to your systems, so there is nothing to charge for. The response says AL-Cache: hit; check it against your vendor's own usage page. Fair use is generous: 200 hits per billed call.

What happens at my cap?

The call is refused before it is sent, so it costs nothing, and the error names what to do. cost shows headroom the whole way, so most agents re-plan before they reach it. The Free plan is a hard stop; nothing is ever billed to it.

How do I pay?

Choose a plan on this page; it opens a pre-filled message to [email protected] with your tenant id. We set the plan and reply. Invoices are monthly, in AUD, minimum A$10.

Do I need a card to start?

No. One call creates a sandbox with 100,000 calls. When you choose a plan, send us your tenant id; we set the plan and confirm by email. Nothing is charged today, and your invoice is priced at the published rate.

Why can one question cost several calls?

Because it took several real calls to answer: long lists come in pages, and an ask touches more than one system. check estimates the count first, free, and the receipt shows the exact number.

Is there a per-seat charge?

No. People and agents are never counted, on any plan. Connect one agent or a hundred, and add every person who approves or reviews. You pay for work done in your systems, not for the number of things allowed to ask.

Can I run production on the Free plan?

Yes. Free is 100,000 calls a month with a hard stop, and production is allowed. One Free tenant per organisation: tenants you run for your own customers are yours, and belong on a paid plan.

Can I cap a single agent?

Yes. Every key carries its own cap in calls, and a key can mint keys with a share of that cap, never more, so an orchestrator hands each worker exactly what it may spend.

Which failures are free?

Every one you did not cause: a vendor's 401, 403, 429 or 5xx, a timeout, and anything validation rejected before it left. You pay for a request that reached a vendor and came back with a definitive answer, nothing else.

Does setup cost anything?

No. Creating a tenant, minting keys, connecting systems and setting caps make no calls to your systems, so they are free. The first 100,000 calls are free too.

What currency am I billed in?

AUD. Every price on this page is the AUD list price, and your invoice is in AUD. Prices exclude GST. GST is added to Australian invoices.

Will the price change?

The price book is versioned and any increase carries 60 days' notice. This version raises Team, Business, Enterprise and the Dedicated IP; anyone already on them gets 60 days' notice before the new price applies. Prepaid blocks never expire.

What is a bucket?

A whole month at a set volume on Business or Enterprise: the plan's base, plus every action past the plan's allowance at the bucket's own rate, from A$0.18 down to A$0.16 per 1,000, rounded to a clean monthly figure. The 10M bucket is A$2,700 a month, A$99 under the same month metered. Past the bucket, the plan's published rate applies. Above 50M actions a month is by agreement.

Who can have a Dedicated IP?

Any tenant on Team or above, at A$229 a month per address, prorated per second. Enterprise includes one at no charge. Ask us to add it; from then on you switch it on, recycle it and remove it yourself.

What is the minimum invoice?

A$10. Below that, nothing is invoiced.

Can I cancel?

Monthly plans run month to month. Business and Enterprise are annual agreements, invoiced monthly. Ask us to erase your tenant and its data key is destroyed with it.

Start free. Pay only when real work happens.

100,000 calls a month, no card. Hard caps on every key. Cached answers free. 60 days' notice of any price change.