Bytewells is open. Anyone can sign up at bytewells.com, find an Actor, and rent it by the month.

Paying per result is fine for an Actor you run lightly. Once you are pulling a lot of rows every month, that bill keeps climbing. On Bytewells you pay a flat monthly rental plus compute, billed per second from prepaid credit at $0.15 per compute unit.

Switching is one line. Change baseUrl in apify-client, and your inputs, datasets and downstream code keep working. Keep everything else on Apify.

The people behind the Actors are the same. Actors are published by the developers who built them on Apify, from the same source code, and 90% of every rental goes to the developer who maintains it.

There are 118 Actors on the store as of this week, many from developers who joined the waitlist. New accounts get $5 of compute credit to try it.

If you publish Actors on Apify, you can list them at bytewells.com/for-developers. Over the next few weeks we will be writing about specific Actors and the use cases they fit.

_dan

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