# SaaS Pricing Page Intelligence Monitor (`k0nkupa/saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor`) Actor

Discovers and monitors SaaS pricing pages, plans, feature gates, free-trial language, and enterprise-contact CTAs for competitive intelligence teams.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/k0nkupa/saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Tony Le](https://apify.com/k0nkupa) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 pricing results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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```bash

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# README

## SaaS Pricing Page Intelligence Monitor

Track public SaaS plans, prices, billing periods, feature gates, free trials, and enterprise sales CTAs from vendor-owned pricing pages.

The Actor discovers pricing pages from explicit vendor targets, extracts evidence-backed plan rows, and compares the result with the last successful run. Use it for competitive intelligence, pricing research, product marketing, procurement, and scheduled change monitoring.

### What it returns

- One evidence-backed row per pricing plan.
- `added`, `modified`, and `removed` changes compared with the last successful run.
- Optional `unchanged` rows for full pricing snapshots.
- Previous price, billing, feature-gate, and CTA values on modified or removed plans.
- Canonical vendor-owned source URLs and capture timestamps.

The Actor never emits its G2, Capterra, or Product Hunt discovery pages as pricing evidence.

### Recommended use

Create an Apify Task with explicit competitor domains or pricing URLs and schedule it daily or weekly. Explicit vendor targets are more stable than zero-input discovery mode.

Example input:

```json
{
  "pricingUrls": [
    "https://stripe.com/pricing",
    "https://slack.com/pricing"
  ],
  "competitorDomains": [],
  "useDefaultSources": false,
  "queryThemes": [
    "SaaS pricing page plans enterprise",
    "software pricing plans free trial"
  ],
  "maxPages": 20,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeUnchanged": false,
  "maxFirecrawlPages": 0
}
````

On the first successful run, every observed plan is `added`. On later runs, leaving `includeUnchanged` disabled produces a change-only dataset.

### Inputs

#### `pricingUrls`

Direct public pricing-page URLs. Supplying at least one direct URL or competitor domain disables the default discovery sources.

#### `competitorDomains`

Public SaaS domains or URLs. For each domain, the Actor examines the homepage and conventional `/pricing`, `/plans`, and `/pricing-plans` paths.

#### `useDefaultSources`

When `true` and no explicit targets are supplied, use bounded G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt pages as candidate discovery hints. Vendor-owned pages remain the only accepted evidence sources.

#### `queryThemes`

Pricing concepts used to recognize candidate vendor links during default discovery. They do not invoke a search API.

#### `maxPages`

Maximum homepage, discovery, and pricing-page requests attempted in one run. Default: `100`; range: `1–5000`.

#### `maxItems`

Maximum current pricing plans compared with the previous successful snapshot. Default: `100`; range: `1–1000`.

#### `includeUnchanged`

Emit unchanged plan rows alongside changes. Default: `false`.

#### `firecrawlApiKey`

Optional secret bring-your-own Firecrawl API key. Direct HTTP is always attempted first; Firecrawl is used only for blocked or sparse pages. The key is not written to logs or datasets.

#### `maxFirecrawlPages`

Maximum Firecrawl fallback attempts per run. Default: `10`; range: `0–100`. Set to `0` to disable fallback.

### Output fields

- `recordType`: `pricingPlan` for current/added rows or `pricingChange` for modified and removed plans.
- `changeType`: `added`, `modified`, `removed`, or optionally `unchanged`.
- `sourceUrl`: canonical vendor-owned pricing page.
- `companyName`: vendor name evidenced by page metadata or derived from the vendor hostname.
- `planName`: pricing-plan name.
- `priceText`: displayed price or `Custom pricing`.
- `billingPeriod`: normalized billing unit such as `month`, `year`, `user`, or `seat`.
- `featureGate`: up to eight evidenced plan features joined as text.
- `ctaText`: an evidenced conversion CTA such as `Start free trial` or `Contact sales`.
- `confidence`: extraction confidence from `0` to `1`.
- `evidenceText`: bounded source text supporting the plan row.
- `previousValues`: prior `priceText`, `billingPeriod`, `featureGate`, and `ctaText` for modified or removed plans.
- `capturedAt`: ISO 8601 timestamp for the comparison run.

Example result:

```json
{
  "recordType": "pricingChange",
  "changeType": "modified",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "companyName": "Example",
  "planName": "Starter",
  "priceText": "$29",
  "billingPeriod": "month",
  "featureGate": "10 projects; Email support",
  "ctaText": "Start free trial",
  "confidence": 1,
  "evidenceText": "Starter $29 per month 10 projects Email support Start free trial",
  "previousValues": {
    "priceText": "$19",
    "billingPeriod": "month",
    "featureGate": "5 projects; Community support",
    "ctaText": "Start free trial"
  },
  "capturedAt": "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Scheduling and snapshots

The Actor stores the latest successful pricing snapshot in the named
`saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor-state` key-value store. Snapshot keys
are scoped to the normalized pricing targets, so scheduled runs can compare
with earlier runs without different monitoring configurations overwriting one
another.

- Schedule the same Apify Task to keep its normalized target set stable.
- A failed crawl or dataset publication does not replace the previous snapshot.
- Deleting or replacing the default key-value store resets history; the next run reports all observed plans as `added`.
- Running with different target sets against the same default storage can produce `removed` rows. Use separate Tasks/storages for unrelated competitor groups.

### Pricing and safety

The Actor uses pay-per-event monetization. Each emitted dataset row uses event name `pricing-result`.

Direct HTTP is attempted first. Firecrawl is optional BYOK and bounded by `maxFirecrawlPages`; Firecrawl usage may consume credits on the supplied account. Fetched content is handled only as untrusted text and is never executed.

### Limitations

- JavaScript-rendered or strongly protected pricing pages may require Firecrawl.
- Highly visual pricing tables without semantic headings may not yield plan rows.
- Prices embedded only in images are not extracted.
- Currency conversion, tax normalization, and inferred annualized pricing are intentionally excluded.
- Default discovery sources can change or block automated access; explicit vendor targets are recommended.

### Local development

Run commands from this Actor directory:

```bash
npm ci
npm test
apify validate-schema
apify run --purge
```

For local runs, place input at `storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json`. Local storage is not synchronized with Apify Console.

# Actor input Schema

## `pricingUrls` (type: `array`):

Direct public vendor pricing-page URLs. Explicit pricing URLs or competitor domains replace the default discovery sources.

## `competitorDomains` (type: `array`):

Public SaaS domains or URLs. The Actor checks the homepage and conventional /pricing, /plans, and /pricing-plans paths.

## `useDefaultSources` (type: `boolean`):

Use bounded G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt discovery hints only when no direct pricing URL or competitor domain is supplied.

## `queryThemes` (type: `array`):

Pricing concepts used to recognize vendor links while evaluating the default discovery sources.

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

Maximum number of homepage, discovery, and pricing-page requests attempted in one run.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of current pricing plans compared with the previous successful snapshot.

## `includeUnchanged` (type: `boolean`):

Emit unchanged plan rows as well as added, modified, and removed rows. Leave disabled for change-only monitoring.

## `firecrawlApiKey` (type: `string`):

Optional bring-your-own Firecrawl key used only when direct HTTP is blocked or returns sparse content. Firecrawl usage may consume credits on your account.

## `maxFirecrawlPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum attempted Firecrawl fallback pages per run. Ignored without a Firecrawl API key.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "pricingUrls": [],
  "competitorDomains": [],
  "useDefaultSources": true,
  "queryThemes": [
    "SaaS pricing page plans enterprise",
    "software pricing plans free trial",
    "AI SaaS pricing page",
    "B2B software pricing page"
  ],
  "maxPages": 100,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeUnchanged": false,
  "maxFirecrawlPages": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("k0nkupa/saas-pricing-page-intelligence-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("k0nkupa/saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call k0nkupa/saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=k0nkupa/saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "SaaS Pricing Page Intelligence Monitor",
        "description": "Discovers and monitors SaaS pricing pages, plans, feature gates, free-trial language, and enterprise-contact CTAs for competitive intelligence teams.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "WyaRBM7QSgszh7u8H"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/k0nkupa~saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-k0nkupa-saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/k0nkupa~saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-k0nkupa-saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/k0nkupa~saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-k0nkupa-saas-pricing-page-intelligence-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "pricingUrls": {
                        "title": "Pricing page URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Direct public vendor pricing-page URLs. Explicit pricing URLs or competitor domains replace the default discovery sources.",
                        "default": [],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "competitorDomains": {
                        "title": "Competitor domains",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Public SaaS domains or URLs. The Actor checks the homepage and conventional /pricing, /plans, and /pricing-plans paths.",
                        "default": [],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "useDefaultSources": {
                        "title": "Use default discovery sources",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Use bounded G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt discovery hints only when no direct pricing URL or competitor domain is supplied.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "queryThemes": {
                        "title": "Discovery query themes",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Pricing concepts used to recognize vendor links while evaluating the default discovery sources.",
                        "default": [
                            "SaaS pricing page plans enterprise",
                            "software pricing plans free trial",
                            "AI SaaS pricing page",
                            "B2B software pricing page"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxPages": {
                        "title": "Max pages",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 5000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of homepage, discovery, and pricing-page requests attempted in one run.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max result rows",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of current pricing plans compared with the previous successful snapshot.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "includeUnchanged": {
                        "title": "Include unchanged plans",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Emit unchanged plan rows as well as added, modified, and removed rows. Leave disabled for change-only monitoring.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "firecrawlApiKey": {
                        "title": "Firecrawl API key",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional bring-your-own Firecrawl key used only when direct HTTP is blocked or returns sparse content. Firecrawl usage may consume credits on your account."
                    },
                    "maxFirecrawlPages": {
                        "title": "Max Firecrawl pages",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 100,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum attempted Firecrawl fallback pages per run. Ignored without a Firecrawl API key.",
                        "default": 10
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```