01 · Pricing · US edition
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 USD
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02 · Your number
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.
The same month on every plan
Recommended
Starterfor 100K–583K calls a month
US$49 a month
Billed in USD
Also free this month
check, find_actions, get_action, cost, helpPrepaid blocks never expire and carry a bonus: US$500 +3% · US$2,500 +6% · US$10,000 +10%.
Billed in USD. Prices exclude sales tax. Sales tax is added to US invoices where it applies. Minimum invoice US$10. Overage is billed at your plan's published per-1,000 rate. There is no overage premium.
03 · Plans
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.
the sandbox: a real tenant, production allowed
US$0 / month
No card. No signup.
100,000 calls a monthhard stop, no overage
Recommended100K–583K calls
for one agent and ten systems
100K–583K calls
US$49 / month
Billed in USD
250,000 calls a monththen US$0.30 per 1,000
for a product team in production
US$149 / month
Billed in USD
750,000 calls a monththen US$0.28 per 1,000
for a team of agents across a client book
US$399 / month
Billed in USD
2,000,000 calls a monththen US$0.25 per 1,000
for an operation that runs on it
US$1,199 / month
Billed in USD
5,000,000 calls a monththen US$0.20 per 1,000
for a named engineer and an agreement
fromUS$3,000 / month
Billed in USD
15,000,000 calls a monththen US$0.18 per 1,000
No seats: people and agents are never counted, on any plan.
Billed in USD. Prices exclude sales tax. Sales tax is added to US invoices where it applies. 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
US$0
find_actions, get_action, help: every search and schema.check, cost, account: planning, keys, connections, caps.Free is in the terms, not in a promotion.
1 call
do or ask.ask bills the calls it made and nothing for the join.Every response carries AL-Calls, AL-Micros and AL-Cache. The meter is on the response, not the invoice.
05 · 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 US$0.18 per 1,000 at 10M a month down to US$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.
Pay ahead at the Starter rate, get more actions, never lose them. Blocks never expire. Set up by email, like a plan.
06 · 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 USD; 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.
| Platform | Plan used | What one unit is | At 100,000 | At 1M | Free allowance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| actionlake | Free at 100,000; Pro at 1M | one call that reaches a vendor 1 | US$0.00US$0 a month | US$0.219US$219 a month | 100,000 actions a month, no card |
| Zapier | Professional | one successful action step 2 | US$4.89 | US$2.20 | 100 tasks a month |
| Make * | Core at 150,000 credits; Pro at 1,000,000 | one module run 3 | US$0.99 | US$0.75 | 1,000 credits a month |
| n8n Cloud * | Pro at 50,000 executions | one run of a whole workflow 4 | €1.20 | no public price | 1,000 executions, trial |
| Pipedream | Startup | one credit per 30 s of compute per action 5 | US$11.79 | US$11.98 | development only |
| Arcade | Team, US$25 plus usage | one tool call, plus US$0.10 per sign-in event 6 | US$10.25 | US$10.03 | 2,000 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.
* 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
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
US$149 / month per address, prorated per second
Available on Team and above; Enterprise includes one. Billed in USD. Prices exclude sales tax. Sales tax is added to US invoices where it applies.
One static IPv4 address, private to your account, in Sydney (syd1).
A question about your network path, or an allow-list a vendor sent you? Ask us.
08 · The price book
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": "USD",
"notice_period_days": 60,
"plans": [
{
"id": "free",
"base_month": 0,
"included_calls": 100000,
"per_1000": null
},
{
"id": "starter",
"base_month": 49,
"included_calls": 250000,
"per_1000": 0.3
},
{
"id": "pro",
"base_month": 149,
"included_calls": 750000,
"per_1000": 0.28
},
{
"id": "team",
"base_month": 399,
"included_calls": 2000000,
"per_1000": 0.25
},
{
"id": "business",
"base_month": 1199,
"included_calls": 5000000,
"per_1000": 0.2
},
{
"id": "enterprise",
"base_month": 3000,
"included_calls": 15000000,
"per_1000": 0.18
}
],
"minimum_invoice": 10,
"prepaid_expiry": "none",
"tax": "Prices exclude sales tax. Sales tax is added to US invoices where it applies."
}09 · Questions
Real answers. Each one is a sentence from the price book or the code.
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.
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.
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 USD, minimum US$10.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
USD. Every price on this page is the USD list price, and your invoice is in USD. Prices exclude sales tax. Sales tax is added to US invoices where it applies.
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.
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 US$0.18 down to US$0.16 per 1,000, rounded to a clean monthly figure. The 10M bucket is US$2,100 a month, US$99 under the same month metered. Past the bucket, the plan's published rate applies. Above 50M actions a month is by agreement.
Any tenant on Team or above, at US$149 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.
US$10. Below that, nothing is invoiced.
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.
100,000 calls a month, no card. Hard caps on every key. Cached answers free. 60 days' notice of any price change.