Integrations · Apify
The same data, pay-per-event
Both APIs run as Apify actors: no monthly fee, billed per event through your Apify account. If your workload is an occasional batch job rather than steady daily traffic, this is the cheaper door.
The two actors
One click adds them to your console
The links below pre-add the actor to your Apify console after signup, no searching the store.
Google Flights Scraper
One-way and round-trip fares with airlines, layovers, Google's price band and low | typical | high verdict, and a booking link on every result. Pay-per-event: the current rates are the event table on the listing.
Booking.com Scraper
Live rates, availability, review scores and room types. By the actor's own event table ($0.0037 per search, $0.00001 per result), a 25-property search costs about $0.004, roughly ~$4 per 1,000 searches. The unit is the search, not the result row.
Which door for which workload
Apify for bursts, RapidAPI for baseline
Same data either way: the honest question is the shape of your usage.
Pick the actors when…
Your jobs are occasional and bursty: a monthly market sweep, a one-off dataset, a research scrape. Zero baseline cost (idle months cost nothing) and runs, retries, and result storage live in Apify's console alongside your other actors.
Pick RapidAPI when…
You call every day: an app feature, an agent, a fare-watch cron. A fixed plan makes per-call cost predictable, requests are synchronous HTTP instead of actor runs, and the flights listing sustains 150 / 250 / 500 requests/minute by tier for parallel date scans.
Questions, answered plainly
- How does pay-per-event billing work?
- Apify meters named events per run (a search performed, a result returned) and bills your Apify account for what actually happened. There is no monthly subscription for the actor itself; a month with no runs costs nothing.
- What does the hotels actor cost in practice?
- By its own event table ($0.0037 per search plus $0.00001 per result and $0.00005 per run), a search returning 25 properties costs about $0.004, roughly ~$4 per 1,000 searches. The unit is the search, not the result row; a listing badge that divides by result rows will look misleadingly cheap.
- What does the flights actor cost?
- Its per-event rates are on the listing. Check the pricing table there before a large run. We don’t restate a number here that we haven’t verified against the actor’s own event table.
- Do I need a RapidAPI key for the actors?
- No. The actors run under your Apify account and bill through Apify: they are the one surface on this site that doesn’t use a RapidAPI key.
- Is the data different from the API’s?
- No. Same live scan, same fields: Google’s price band and low/typical/high verdict on flights, live Booking.com rates on hotels. What changes is the billing model and the runtime (an actor run instead of an HTTP request).
- When is RapidAPI the better deal?
- At steady volume. A fixed monthly plan with 150 / 250 / 500 requests/minute on flights beats per-event billing once you are calling every day, and a synchronous HTTP request is simpler to build against than starting a run. Occasional batch jobs with idle months are where the actors win.
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Steady volume? The subscription is the better unit price
The RapidAPI plans start free and scale to 50,000 requests a month: same data, synchronous HTTP, fixed bill.
Free tier: 10 requests/month. No card to try.