# Apify Actor Preflight Checker

> Apify Actor Preflight Checker is a paid API for AI agents from api.x-402.online, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Vets an Apify actor before you pay to run it, returning a verdict (OK/CAUTION/AVOID), 0-100 quality score, 30-day success/timeout rates, pricing, rating, user count, and freshness signals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.x-402.online/v1/apify/preflight?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-actor-preflight-checker-d451281e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LIPdr1XiYTdT98io3YuJC

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability apify-actor-preflight-checker-d451281e
```

Example prompt: Before I spend money running the 'apify/web-scraper' actor, can you preflight-check it and tell me the verdict, quality score, and 30-day success rate?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, structured risk assessment of any Apify actor before paying to run it — especially when evaluating unfamiliar or third-party actors for reliability, maintenance status, and cost. Prefer this over manually browsing the Apify marketplace when you want machine-readable quality signals for automated decision-making in an agent workflow.

## Known failure modes

- Actor not found — invalid actor ID or name returns an error
- Apify API unavailable — upstream data cannot be fetched
- Missing required actor identifier in query params
- Rate limiting if called excessively in a short window

## How this service works

Vet an Apify actor before you pay to run it: verdict, 0-100 score, 30-day run success and timeout rates, last run and build age, deprecation, users, rating and current pricing Vet an Apify actor before you pay to run it: a verdict (OK, CAUTION, AVO…

## Output

Returns a structured preflight report including: a categorical verdict (OK, CAUTION, or AVOID), a 0-100 numeric quality score, 30-day run success rate and timeout rate, age of the last run and last build, deprecation flag, total user count, star rating, and current pricing — giving a comprehensive risk assessment before committing to a paid Apify run.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/apify-actor-preflight-checker-d451281e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.x-402.online](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.x-402.online/llms.txt)