Mobile Plans Tracker: SIM-Only & Prepaid Plan Prices

What does Mobile Plans Tracker do?

Mobile Plans Tracker gives you the current mobile plans, SIM-only plans and prepaid plans of 12 carriers in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia as one clean, comparable table, and tells you what changed since your last run: price drops, price rises, new plans, removed plans, data changes and new promotions. Every plan is normalized to the same fields (monthly price, price in USD, data in GB, 5G, contract, roaming), so telco plans with 28-day, monthly and yearly cycles can finally be compared side by side.

The data comes from the carriers' own public plan pages, read once a week. Use it in Apify Console with no code, or as a telco pricing API from your own scripts, dashboards and spreadsheets.

Why use Mobile Plans Tracker?

Comparing phone plans by hand means opening a dozen carrier sites, decoding "$54 Pre-Paid Plan, now $15 for your first recharge, 75GB on your first three recharges then 35GB", and doing it again every week to spot changes. Mobile Plans Tracker does it for you:

• 📉 Price change tracking: each plan is labeled price_down, price_up, new, removed, data_up, data_down, promo_changed or unchanged compared with your previous run.
• 🧮 Normalized prices: the ongoing price per billing cycle, the same price per month (priceMonthly) and in USD, plus the sale or introductory price shown now (promoPrice) kept apart, so a first-month deal never hides the real price.
• 📶 Comparable data allowances: ongoing data in GB (1 GB = 1000 MB), bonus data kept apart in promoDataGB.
• ✅ Checked against the page: an AI model reads each page, then every plan is verified against the page text (the price with its currency sign, the data amount and the plan name). Plans that can't be verified are dropped instead of guessed.
• 🔔 Only the changes: switch on Only output changed plans and schedule a weekly run to get a short list of what moved in the market.
• ➕ Your own carriers: add up to 10 public plan pages of other carriers as custom URLs.
• 🤖 Apify platform features: run it on a schedule, call it by API, or send the results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make or Zapier with integrations.

Who uses it: telco pricing and product teams watching competitors, comparison sites and affiliate publishers keeping plan tables current, analysts and journalists following mobile prices, and people choosing a SIM-only plan who want one table instead of twelve tabs.

Which carriers are covered?

Country	Carriers	Plan pages read
🇲🇾 Malaysia	Tune Talk, redONE, U Mobile	prepaid and postpaid (U Mobile: prepaid data plans)
🇸🇬 Singapore	SIMBA, Circles.Life, Zero1	SIM-only and prepaid
🇦🇺 Australia	amaysim, Coles Mobile, Telstra, Vodafone, Felix Mobile, Lebara	SIM-only and prepaid

About 120 plans in total. Each carrier was checked before it was added: its robots.txt allows the plan pages, its website terms don't forbid automated reading, and the pages are read with an honest bot User-Agent, once a week. Carriers whose terms forbid automated access are not included, and their sites are refused as custom URLs too.

What data does Mobile Plans Tracker return?

Field	Description
country, carrier, carrierId	Where the plan is sold and by whom
planName, type	The carrier's plan name; postpaid, prepaid or sim_only
price, billingCycle	Ongoing price for one cycle, for example 58 per 1 month or 30 per 28 days
promoPrice	Sale or introductory price shown now, if any
priceMonthly, priceMonthlyUsd	Ongoing price for one month (30.44 days), in the plan's currency and in USD
currency	ISO code: MYR, SGD, AUD
dataGB, promoDataGB, dataUnlimited	Ongoing full-speed data per cycle, data shown now including bonus data, unlimited data
unlimitedCalls, fiveG, contractMonths	Unlimited national calls, 5G access, minimum contract (0 = none)
roaming, promo	Short summaries of included roaming and the current promotion
change, previousPrice, previousPromoPrice, previousDataGB	What changed since comparedTo and the previous values
comparedTo, comparedToDate	previous_run (your last run) or weekly_snapshot (the previous weekly check)
sourceUrl, scrapedAt	The carrier page and when it was last read successfully

Also included: planKey (a stable plan ID), source (preset or custom) and carrierStatus (stale when a carrier page couldn't be read at the last check, so its plans come from an earlier check; for custom URLs, from your previous run).

How to compare mobile plans with Mobile Plans Tracker

1. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
2. Pick Countries (or specific Carriers) and the Plan types you care about.
3. Keep Compare with my previous run on. Switch on Only output changed plans if you only want the changes.
4. Click Start. A run takes well under a minute for the preset carriers.
5. Open the Output tab: the Overview view shows prices and changes, Compare plans shows the features. Export to CSV or Excel, or schedule the Actor weekly to get every change as it happens.

How much does it cost to track mobile plans?

Mobile Plans Tracker uses pay-per-event pricing:

• $0.05 per carrier with plans in your output, and
• $0.005 per plan in the output,
• plus a start fee of $0.00005 per run. There is no charge for compute time.

Run	Carriers	Plans	Cost
Australia, all plans	6	~56	about $0.58
All 12 carriers, all plans	12	~122	about $1.21
All 12 carriers, only changed plans (10 changes, 4 carriers)	4	10	about $0.25
All 12 carriers, only changed plans, nothing changed	0	0	$0.00005

• With Only output changed plans, carriers without changes are not charged, so a quiet week costs almost nothing.
• Maximum plans in the output caps the number of rows, and Apify stops charging when a run reaches the maximum cost you set. Carriers are charged one at a time together with their plans, so a low maximum cost never pays for a carrier without at least one of its plans.
• Custom URLs that can't be read are not charged. A run that fails before delivering anything charges nothing; if it fails midway, only the rows already delivered were charged.

Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, which covers several runs.

Input

See the Input tab for every option. Example input:

{
    "countries": ["MY", "SG"],
    "planTypes": ["prepaid", "sim_only"],
    "compareWithPrevious": true,
    "onlyChanged": false,
    "maxPlans": 1000
}

• Carriers overrides Countries: pick carriers to check just those.
• Custom carrier URLs: public plan pages of other carriers. One site counts as one carrier (up to 3 pages per site). To check only your URLs, empty Countries.

Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel. Example results:

[
    {
        "country": "AU",
        "carrierId": "au-vodafone",
        "carrier": "Vodafone",
        "source": "preset",
        "carrierStatus": "ok",
        "planName": "Small Plan",
        "planKey": "au-vodafone:sim_only:small-plan:30d",
        "type": "sim_only",
        "price": 58,
        "promoPrice": 45,
        "billingCycle": "1 month",
        "priceMonthly": 58,
        "priceMonthlyUsd": 40.47,
        "currency": "AUD",
        "dataGB": 65,
        "promoDataGB": null,
        "dataUnlimited": false,
        "unlimitedCalls": true,
        "fiveG": true,
        "contractMonths": 0,
        "roaming": "Use your included data, calls and texts in over 100 destinations for $5 extra a day.",
        "promo": "Save $13/mth for the first 12 months; $45/mth for first 12 months then $58/mth. New connections only. Ends 29/10/26",
        "change": "unchanged",
        "previousPrice": 58,
        "previousPromoPrice": 45,
        "previousDataGB": 65,
        "comparedTo": "weekly_snapshot",
        "comparedToDate": "2026-10-14T08:33:20.920Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.vodafone.com.au/mobile/sim-only-phone-plans",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T08:39:27.981Z"
    },
    {
        "country": "SG",
        "carrierId": "sg-circles",
        "carrier": "Circles.Life",
        "source": "preset",
        "carrierStatus": "ok",
        "planName": "Circles Plus",
        "planKey": "sg-circles:sim_only:circles-plus:30d",
        "type": "sim_only",
        "price": 18,
        "promoPrice": 10.99,
        "billingCycle": "1 month",
        "priceMonthly": 18,
        "priceMonthlyUsd": 14.06,
        "currency": "SGD",
        "dataGB": 300,
        "promoDataGB": null,
        "dataUnlimited": false,
        "unlimitedCalls": true,
        "fiveG": true,
        "contractMonths": 0,
        "roaming": "Asia roaming (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)",
        "promo": "Promotion: $10.99 for the first month, reverts to $18 after",
        "change": "unchanged",
        "previousPrice": 18,
        "previousPromoPrice": 10.99,
        "previousDataGB": 300,
        "comparedTo": "weekly_snapshot",
        "comparedToDate": "2026-10-14T08:33:20.920Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.circles.life/sg/plans/",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T08:39:27.981Z"
    }
]

A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists every carrier checked, the number of each change type, skipped custom URLs with the reason, and the carriers charged.

Use Mobile Plans Tracker as an API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/messnomore~mobile-plans-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countries": ["AU"], "planTypes": ["sim_only"], "onlyChanged": true}'

See the API tab for clients in JavaScript and Python. You can also run it from AI assistants through the Apify MCP server.

Tips for better results

• Schedule it weekly (the data is refreshed once a week) with Only output changed plans on, and connect an integration to get the changes by email or in Slack.
• Compare plans with different cycles by priceMonthly or priceMonthlyUsd, not by price.
• Use planKey to join runs or to keep your own history.
• To start the comparison over, delete the key-value store named mobile-plans-tracker in your Apify account (Storage → Key-value stores). The next run then compares with the previous weekly check.

Related guides

• How do you compare and track SIM-only and prepaid plan prices in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia?

FAQ

How are the plans extracted and checked?

Once a week, the carriers' public plan pages are read (with a headless browser where a page needs it) and an AI model (OpenAI) lists the plans on each page. Each plan is then checked against the page text: the price must appear with its currency sign, the data amount and the plan name must be on the page, and the price must sit near the plan. Plans that fail these checks are dropped. If a page suddenly shows far fewer plans than before, the previous plans are kept until the next check confirms it, so a broken page doesn't show up as dozens of removed plans.

How does the change detection work?

Your run saves the plans it delivered, per carrier and plan type, in a key-value store named mobile-plans-tracker in your own Apify account. Your next run compares with it. Your first run (or a carrier or plan type you haven't checked before) compares with the previous weekly check instead, and comparedTo tells you which one was used. The ongoing price is compared first, then the data allowance, then the promotion price and bonus data. A carrier checked with a filter, for example prepaid only, never hides the changes of its other plan types from your next run, and rows left out by Maximum plans or your maximum cost are not saved, so your next run reports those changes again.

What is the difference between price and promoPrice?

price is what the plan costs once any sale or introductory offer ends. promoPrice is the lower price the carrier shows now (for example "$15 for your first recharge"), or null when there is no such offer. priceMonthly is based on price. Bonus data works the same way: dataGB is the ongoing allowance and promoDataGB includes the bonus.

How fresh is the data?

The preset carriers are checked once a week. scrapedAt shows when each plan's page was last read successfully. Custom URLs are read live during your run.

What about custom carrier URLs?

Custom URLs are read during your run with plain HTTP and extracted with the same AI and checks. They must be public plan pages that show their plans without JavaScript, and their robots.txt must allow reading them. Login, checkout, account and private network addresses are refused, and so are sites whose terms forbid automated reading. Up to 10 URLs per run (3 on the Apify free plan), up to 3 pages per site. If one page of a site can't be read, its plans from your previous run are kept and the carrier is marked stale; a site with no readable page is skipped and not charged.

Why did I get fewer plans than expected?

Check the SUMMARY record. Common reasons: Only output changed plans is on, Maximum plans or your maximum cost per run was reached, a plan type filter is set, or a custom URL was skipped (the reason is listed). Plans that the page text doesn't support are dropped on purpose.

Is my input stored or shared?

Custom URLs and their page text are sent to the OpenAI API only to extract the plans. Like every Apify run, your input, results and the comparison store stay in your own Apify account, and you can delete them at any time.

Is it legal to collect mobile plan data?

The Actor reads only public plan pages that carriers publish for customers, at most once a week for the preset carriers. It respects robots.txt, never logs in and never opens order, checkout or account pages. Mobile plans are product and price information, not personal data. Our Actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our Actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Known limitations

• U Mobile shows its postpaid prices only after clicks, so only its prepaid data plans are covered.
• Plan names follow the carriers' pages. If a carrier renames a plan, it appears as one removed and one new plan.
• Promotions with conditions (port-in only, first recharge, online only) are summarized in promo; read the carrier's terms before relying on them.

I found wrong or missing data. What can I do?

Open the Issues tab and include the carrier and plan. Feedback and requests for more carriers and countries are welcome there too.