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Apify Actor Preflight
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Apify Actor Preflight is a paid API for AI agents from audit-tools.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).
Scores an Apify actor on pricing, maintenance, reliability, docs, and output schema from public metadata — returning a verdict and evidence JSON before you run it.
Price / call$0.02
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Vet an Apify actor before you spend on it. Send one actor ID (e.g. apify/instagram-scraper) and get scored JSON in seconds, with evidence and a verdict, from public metadata: pricing, output schema, maintenance, reliability, docs. Unlimited criteria: our pre-built set or your own rubric in plain English. Metadata grades what a vendor claims. The $1 full audit runs the actor and measures what it delivers: real cost per usable item, whether advertised fields arrive, speed and consistency.
Output
A scored JSON object containing grades for each evaluated criterion (pricing, output schema, maintenance, reliability, documentation), supporting evidence drawn from public metadata, and an overall verdict indicating whether the actor is recommended — all returned in seconds without executing the actor.
Example use cases
Vetting a scraper before production use
“I'm about to build a pipeline around apify/web-scraper — can you run a preflight on it and tell me if it's well-maintained, reasonably priced, and has solid documentation before I integrate it?”
Applying a custom rubric to an actor
“Score apify/google-maps-scraper against my own criteria: I care most about whether it returns phone numbers and opening hours reliably, and whether it's been updated in the last 6 months. Can you preflight it with those custom criteria?”
Comparing actor quality for a scraping shortlist
“I have apify/tripadvisor-scraper on my shortlist — can you preflight it and give me a scored verdict covering pricing, output schema completeness, and maintenance so I can decide if it's worth the $1 full audit?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://audit-tools.ai/api/preflight?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you want a fast, free-to-cheap ($0.02) quality signal on an Apify actor before committing to a $1 full audit or actual execution costs. It's ideal for agent pipelines that need to shortlist or reject actors programmatically based on public metadata signals like maintenance recency, pricing structure, and output schema completeness. Prefer the sibling full-audit endpoint when you need empirical evidence of what the actor actually delivers at runtime.
Side effects
- Unknown or misspelled actor ID returns an error or empty result
- Private/unlisted actors may have insufficient public metadata for scoring
- Actors with very sparse documentation may produce low-confidence grades
- Rate limiting or network issues reaching Apify public metadata
- Custom criteria that are too vague may result in low-quality rubric scores
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| targets | array | One Apify actor ID or URL, e.g. apify/instagram-scraper |
| customCriteria | array | Optional custom rubric: your own criteria to score the actor against, each with a name and a plain-language description of what to measure |
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