SaaS Pricing And Messaging Monitor

Monitor public SaaS pricing pages and turn them into repeatable competitive-intelligence snapshots. No private API key, login, or vendor credentials are required for public pages.

Why use it?

Run it on a schedule to detect competitor price changes, new or removed tiers, billing-period changes, and positioning updates before they become obvious in a manual review.

What it extracts

• Plan names, prices, currencies, and billing periods
• Feature bullets and tier-level calls to action
• Free-trial, enterprise, discount, and messaging signals
• Stable page/content hashes for repeat-run comparisons
• First-seen, changed, and unchanged status

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	object[]	required	Public pricing URLs such as https://www.notion.com/pricing
maxPages	integer	10	Maximum number of URLs to process (1-100)
includeRawText	boolean	true	Include a normalized text excerpt
includeHtml	boolean	false	Include a cleaned HTML excerpt for selector debugging
trackChanges	boolean	true	Persist the last successful snapshot in a named Apify key-value store
onlyChanges	boolean	false	Emit only first-seen or changed pages; still scans every requested URL
proxyConfiguration	object	none	Optional Apify Proxy settings for public pages that rate-limit ordinary HTTP

Repeat-run output

When trackChanges is enabled, output includes:

• change_type: new, prices_changed, pricing_tier_count_changed, page_content_changed, or unchanged
• change_detected: whether a meaningful change was found
• change_summary: machine-readable reasons for the change
• previous_content_hash and previous_scraped_at: prior successful snapshot metadata

Failed or invalid pages are not saved as successful snapshots, so a temporary outage does not create a false change.

Example

{
  "status": "ok",
  "company": "Notion",
  "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing",
  "change_type": "prices_changed",
  "change_detected": true,
  "change_summary": ["prices_changed"],
  "pricing_summary": "Found 4 likely pricing tiers. found 8 price points. enterprise or custom pricing is mentioned."
}

Limitations

The actor uses public HTML and does not execute a logged-in browser session. JavaScript-only or blocked pricing pages may need an Apify proxy or a server-rendered pricing URL. The actor reports request_failed or no_pricing_text_found instead of treating an empty extraction as valid pricing data.