# SaaS Pricing Monitor: Competitor Plan Changes (`getascraper/saas-pricing-change-monitor`) Actor

Monitor parseable public SaaS pricing pages for plan, price, billing-period, and feature-package changes. Preserve source evidence and before-and-after values for review. Unsupported or incomplete pages produce status records instead of guessed data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/getascraper/saas-pricing-change-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [GetAScraper](https://apify.com/getascraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 75.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.31 / 1,000 pricing changes

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 💳 SaaS Pricing Monitor: Competitor Plan Changes

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<span style="font-size:23px;font-weight:800;color:#581C87;line-height:1.3">Keep a source-backed record of parseable SaaS plan changes.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;color:#334155;line-height:1.6">Monitor supported public plan-card contexts for plan, price, billing-period, and feature-list evidence. Review the captured source details before making a decision.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#6B21A8">💳 Plan-card parsing</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Capture complete plans from supported card contexts.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#6B21A8">🧾 Price evidence</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Keep the published price and currency text.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#6B21A8">🧩 Feature lists</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Preserve the plan features shown beside the price.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#6B21A8">🔄 Safe comparisons</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Advance saved state only after complete parsing.</span>
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Monitor parseable public SaaS pricing-plan changes. Preserve plan, price, billing-period, and feature evidence so a product or competitive-intelligence team can review a real source change.

### 🎯 What it does

The Actor checks public pricing pages and their robots rules. It returns parseable pricing-plan snapshots or safe additions, changes, and removals after every selected page fetches and parses completely.

### 👥 Who it is for

- Product marketers maintaining competitor battlecards.
- Pricing and monetization teams reviewing public plan changes.
- Competitive-intelligence analysts building a source-backed pricing archive.

### ⚙️ How it works

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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#7E22CE;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 1</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#581C87">Add pricing pages</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Provide public SaaS pricing-page URLs.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#7E22CE;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 2</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#581C87">Choose an output mode</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Request current plans or safe plan events.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#7E22CE;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 3</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#581C87">Review the plan evidence</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#334155">Confirm changes against the captured price and features.</span>
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### 🧾 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Public pricing page URLs | Array | No | One to fifteen public HTTP(S) pricing pages. Robots rules are checked first. |
| Output mode | Choice | No | `full` returns parseable plan snapshots. `changesOnly` returns safe plan events. |
| Maximum pages this run | Number | No | Limits selected pages. A capped run does not update saved state. |

### 📊 Output

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| changeType | String | `SNAPSHOT`, `NEW`, `ADDED`, `CHANGED`, or `REMOVED`. |
| planName | String | Parseable public plan name. |
| priceEvidence | String | Published price text found in the plan context. |
| currencyEvidence | String | Currency evidence when available. |
| billingPeriodEvidence | String | Published billing-period text when available. |
| featureEvidence | Array | Published feature-list evidence for the plan. |
| pageUrl | URL | Inspected pricing page URL. |

### 💡 Good to know

- A plan is emitted only when the page has a non-generic plan heading, exactly one price, and feature-list evidence in a supported plan-card context.
- The Actor does not promise to parse every pricing-page design.
- Unparsed, blocked, failed, or capped pages do not create semantic change events or advance saved state.

### 💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay per result. Empty runs do not create result charges. Start with one public pricing page and inspect the captured evidence.

### ⭐ Enjoying SaaS Pricing Monitor?

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<span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:4px;color:#B45309">⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</span><br>
<span style="font-size:17px;font-weight:800;color:#581C87">Did the captured plan evidence speed up a pricing review?</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;color:#334155">A 5-star rating takes 10 seconds and helps pricing and product teams find this monitor. Your feedback guides future improvements.</span>
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### ❓ FAQ

**Does it detect every change on a pricing page?** No. It monitors supported, parseable plan, price, billing-period, and feature evidence.

**Does it extract trials or sales CTAs?** No. Those are not part of the current parser contract.

**Why did a page produce a status row?** The page may be blocked, unsupported, incomplete, or unparseable.

**Can I schedule it?** Yes. Use the same page list in changes-only mode after a complete baseline.

### 🔗 Other actors

- [Website Technology Change Monitor](https://github.com/Devansh-365/actorstack/tree/main/actors/website-technology-change-monitor)
- [Website Action Stack Detector](https://github.com/Devansh-365/actorstack/tree/main/actors/website-action-stack-detector)
- [Shopify Store Product Monitor](https://github.com/Devansh-365/actorstack/tree/main/actors/shopify-store-product-monitor)
- [WooCommerce Store Monitor](https://github.com/Devansh-365/actorstack/tree/main/actors/woocommerce-store-monitor)

# Actor input Schema

## `pricingPageUrls` (type: `array`):

Public HTTP(S) pricing-page URLs to parse conservatively. The Actor checks published robots rules first.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Changes only emits safe plan events after every page parses completely. Full emits the current parseable plan snapshot.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

A run with more selected pages than this bound is capped and does not advance state.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "pricingPageUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing"
    }
  ],
  "mode": "full",
  "maxPages": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `pricingEvents` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "pricingPageUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing"
        }
    ],
    "mode": "full",
    "maxPages": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("getascraper/saas-pricing-change-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "pricingPageUrls": [{ "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing" }],
    "mode": "full",
    "maxPages": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("getascraper/saas-pricing-change-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "pricingPageUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing"
    }
  ],
  "mode": "full",
  "maxPages": 5
}' |
apify call getascraper/saas-pricing-change-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,getascraper/saas-pricing-change-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YK8iubG2OWqO2hkQx/builds/wFGdSqYNcrS6HSyjF/openapi.json