Every MCP directory lists hundreds of servers; almost none of them tell you what one costs once the free allowance runs out, which is the question that decides whether an agent stays on in production. This page only covers the four hosted platforms that publish a price list and the one connector layer that most teams already own, and it compares them on the unit each one actually bills: tool calls, credits, pages scraped, or compute units. The numbers are not equivalent and that is the point. Composio is the most generous free tier by a wide margin - $0 for 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month with unlimited connected accounts and three team members, no card required - and its paid step is $29/mo carrying $29 of credit that expires monthly. Pipedream is far tighter at the entry point: 100 credits a month on Free with only three connected accounts, $29/mo for 2,000 credits and five accounts, and it publishes the AI-token allowance on every tier as well. Firecrawl meters the retrieval layer rather than the tool layer, with 500 searches or 1,000 pages on Free and $16/mo (billed yearly) for 2,500 searches or 5,000 pages, and its per-page price falls as you climb to Standard, Growth and Scale. Apify is the most transparent about how the platform fee relates to usage: each plan carries a monthly credit equal to its own price - $5 free, then $19, $199, $999 - while compute is billed at $0.20 per unit on the lower tiers and $0.16 to $0.13 higher up, so the subscription is best read as a usage-discount ladder rather than a feature gate. Zapier needs no new line item at all for teams already paying for it: Zapier MCP is listed as a platform feature on every plan including the free one, which caps at 100 tasks a month. All prices were read from the vendors' own pricing pages and MCP documentation on 2026-11-03; allow for per-unit billing on top of every figure here, because on all five the base price buys an allowance, not unlimited calls.
All figures verbatim from each tool's verified pricing page. A dash in the price columns means the vendor publishes no such figure (a free-only tool has no entry price); a dash in Score means the tool has not been rated yet.
| # | Tool | Why it's here | Score | Free | Paid from | Trial | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Composio | Largest free allowance in the set | — | Yes | $29/mo (Pro) | — | 2026-11-03 |
| 2 | Pipedream | Best if you also need the workflows, not just the server | — | Yes | $29/mo (Basic) | — | 2026-11-03 |
| 3 | Firecrawl | The retrieval layer most agent stacks end up needing | — | Yes | $16/mo (Hobby, billed yearly) | — | 2026-11-03 |
| 4 | Apify | Clearest platform-fee-to-usage relationship | — | Yes | $19/mo (Starter) plus pay-as-you-go | — | 2026-11-03 |
| 5 | Zapier | No new line item if you already pay for Zapier | 4.2 | Yes | $19.99/mo (Professional, annual) | 14-day free trial on paid plans | 2026-09-25 |
Hobby is $0 with no credit card and includes 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month, unlimited connected accounts and 3 team members - an order of magnitude more than the other entry tiers here. Pro is $29/mo with a $29 usage credit that expires at the end of each billing month and lifts the team-member cap; Enterprise is quote-only.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $29/mo (Pro) (Hobby is $0 with no credit card: 100,000 tool calls/month, 50,000 triggers/month, unlimited connected accounts and 3 team members. Pro is $29/mo and adds a $29 monthly usage credit (unused credit expires at the end of each billing month), unlimited team members and spend controls; usage past the credit is billed as you go. Enterprise is quote-only.)
Composio runs a managed MCP gateway over 1,500+ app toolkits: the Hobby tier is $0 with 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month, and Pro is $29/mo with $29 of usage credit that does not roll over.
The MCP endpoint rides on Pipedream Connect, so the same subscription also buys workflow automation: Free gives 100 credits/month, 1M AI tokens, 3 workflows and 3 connected accounts, Basic $29/mo ($348/yr) gives 2,000 credits, 20M AI tokens, 10 workflows and 5 accounts, and Advanced $49/mo ($588/yr) removes the workflow and account caps and adds premium apps.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $29/mo (Basic) (Free $0 needs no credit card and covers 100 credits/month, 1M AI tokens, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts and unlimited workflow testing, with Pipedream Connect in development only. Basic $29/mo ($348/yr) raises that to 2,000 credits/month, 20M AI tokens, 10 active workflows and 5 connected accounts, and drops the workflow usage cap. Advanced $49/mo ($588/yr) adds 50M AI tokens, unlimited workflows and connected accounts, premium apps and GitHub sync. Higher limits are quoted by sales.)
Pipedream exposes its connected accounts to AI clients through the Connect MCP server, and prices by credits: Free is $0 with 100 credits/month, Basic $29/mo with 2,000.
Free covers 500 searches or 1,000 pages a month at 2 concurrent requests; Hobby is $16/mo billed yearly for 2,500 searches or 5,000 pages at 5 concurrent; Standard $83/mo for 50,000 searches or 100,000 pages at 25 concurrent, then Growth at $333/mo and Scale at $599/mo. The MCP server itself is a separate open-source package, so the cost is purely extraction volume.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $16/mo (Hobby, billed yearly) (Free $0 needs no card and gives 500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped a month with 2 concurrent requests and low rate limits. Hobby $16/mo (billed yearly) gives 2,500 searches or 5,000 pages and 5 concurrent requests; Standard $83/mo gives 50,000 searches or 100,000 pages at 25 concurrent; Growth $333/mo gives 250,000 searches or 500,000 pages at 50 concurrent; Scale $599/mo gives 1,000,000 credits at 100 concurrent. Extra credits are sold in bundles - $5 buys 1,000 credits on Hobby and 2,000 on Standard - so the per-page cost falls as the plan rises.)
Firecrawl is the scraping layer behind a lot of MCP agents: Free covers 500 searches or 1,000 pages a month, and its official MCP server ships as a separate open-source repo.
$0 with $5 of Store credit and no card, then $19, $199 and $999 a month - each subscription figure is also the credit it carries, so raising the plan is a usage discount rather than an unlock. Compute costs $0.20 per unit on Free and Starter, $0.16 on Scale and $0.13 on Business, and concurrency, RAM and proxy add-ons are metered separately.
Free tier: Yes
Paid from: $19/mo (Starter) plus pay-as-you-go (Free is $0 with no card and carries $5 of credit to spend in the Apify Store or on your own Actors, at $0.20 per compute unit. Starter is $19/mo with $19 of the same credit, Scale $199/mo with $199 and Business $999/mo with $999 - the subscription figure is also the monthly credit, so the plan is best read as a usage discount ladder. Compute drops to $0.16 per unit on Scale and $0.13 on Business, and Store discounts step from none on Free to Bronze, Silver and Gold. Add-ons are metered separately: $5 per concurrent run, $1 per GB of Actor RAM, datacenter proxies from $0.60 per IP.)
Apify is the only one here that prices the platform and the work separately: a $0 tier with $5 of Actor credit, then Starter $19/mo, with compute billed at $0.20 per unit.
Zapier MCP is a platform feature on every plan, including the free one, so the connector layer adds nothing to the bill - the constraint is the task allowance: 100 tasks a month on Free and from $19.99/mo (Professional, billed annually) for 750 tasks, with unlimited Zaps and MCP access on all tiers.
Free tier: Yes · 14-day free trial on paid plans
Paid from: $19.99/mo (Professional, annual) (Task-based: one task = one action a Zap successfully completes, and the trigger does not count. Free gives 100 tasks/mo, unlimited Zaps but two-step Zaps only, and 1 seat. Professional starts at 750 tasks/mo and scales by tier (1,500 $29.99, 3,000 $49.99, 5,000 $69.99, up to 2M at $5,999/mo); Team starts at 2,000 tasks and includes 25 seats with SAML SSO. Filters, Paths and Formatter steps do not consume tasks. Every plan includes unlimited Zaps, Tables, Forms and Zapier MCP. Enterprise is quote-only.)
Zapier connects 9,000+ apps with the shallowest learning curve in the class — free for 100 tasks a month, paid from $19.99/mo, and priced per completed task rather than per step or per seat.
Bottom line: If the question is "which one can I run for free without thinking about it", Composio is the only honest answer here: 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month with no card, where Pipedream gives 100 credits and Firecrawl 500 searches or 1,000 pages on the same $0. If the question is "what does this cost at 50,000 pages a month", the answer flips to Firecrawl, because its per-page price falls with volume and the other two meter calls rather than retrievals - and if you already pay for Zapier, the connector layer is the one you should test first, since it adds nothing to the bill while the task allowance holds. What none of these five do is sell unlimited use: every tier here is an allowance with metered billing behind it, so the useful comparison is not the headline price but what one unit costs after the allowance runs out.
Composio, by allowance rather than by headline price - the Hobby tier is $0, needs no credit card and includes 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month, plus unlimited connected accounts and 3 team members. Pipedream Free, Firecrawl Free and Apify Free are all $0 too, but they cap at 100 credits, 500 searches or 1,000 pages, and $5 of Store credit respectively, so the free runway is much shorter.
No. Zapier MCP is listed as a platform feature on every Zapier plan including the free one, so there is no separate MCP charge - the limit is the task allowance, which is 100 tasks a month on Free and starts at $19.99/mo for 750 tasks on Professional billed annually.
Firecrawl. Its free tier is quoted as 500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped a month, Hobby as 2,500 searches or 5,000 pages, and Standard as 50,000 searches or 100,000 pages, with extra credits sold in bundles ($5 buys 1,000 credits on Hobby and 2,000 on Standard). Composio and Pipedream meter tool calls or credits instead, and Apify meters compute units at $0.20 per unit on its lower tiers.
Each one meters the overage rather than stopping: Composio bills past the included 100,000 calls as you go (Pro carries a $29 credit that expires monthly), Pipedream requires a paid tier for more credits, Firecrawl sells extra credit bundles, Apify bills pay-as-you-go on top of any plan, and Zapier stops running tasks until the allowance resets or you upgrade.
Servers. Each of these hosts the endpoint your AI client connects to - Composio through its managed MCP gateway, Pipedream through Connect, Firecrawl through its open-source MCP server package, Apify through its Actors MCP server, and Zapier through its own MCP endpoint. The client is the AI app you are connecting from, and the cost of the client is not part of any figure on this page.