# SaaS Pricing Page Monitor (`signalcrawl/saas-pricing-page-monitor`) Actor

Monitor SaaS pricing pages and export plans, prices, CTAs, trial and enterprise signals, change hashes, and CRM-ready competitor notes.

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

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 pricing intelligence records

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SaaS Pricing Page Monitor

Monitor SaaS pricing pages and turn public pricing pages into structured competitor intelligence.

Paste pricing, plans, or comparison page URLs and get plans, detected prices, CTA text, trial/enterprise/annual/usage-based signals, content hashes, price hashes, and CRM-ready notes for competitive monitoring.

### Why Use This Actor

Generic website crawlers return page text. This Actor is focused on pricing intelligence: it extracts the parts SaaS teams, sales teams, product marketers, agencies, and AI agents care about when a competitor changes pricing or positioning.

### Best For

| Workflow | How teams use the output |
|---|---|
| Competitor pricing monitoring | Track plan names, prices, CTAs, trials, annual discounts, and enterprise mentions. |
| Product marketing | Keep battlecards updated when competitors change packaging. |
| Sales enablement | Generate CRM notes and action notes from pricing pages. |
| AI agents and RAG workflows | Feed clean page text, hashes, and pricing fields into agents or knowledge bases. |
| Recurring change detection | Save `contentHash` or `priceHash` and pass it back in future runs. |

### Input Example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing" },
    { "url": "https://slack.com/pricing" }
  ],
  "maxPages": 2,
  "includeText": false,
  "keywords": ["enterprise", "free trial", "annual", "contact sales"],
  "previousHashes": []
}
```

### Output Example

```json
{
  "platform": "website",
  "companyDomain": "example.com",
  "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "pageTitle": "Pricing",
  "pageType": "pricing",
  "detectedPrices": ["$19 / month", "$49 / month"],
  "planNames": ["Free", "Pro", "Enterprise"],
  "ctaTexts": ["Start Free", "Contact Sales"],
  "hasFreeTrial": true,
  "hasEnterprise": true,
  "hasAnnualDiscount": true,
  "hasUsageBasedPricing": false,
  "matchedKeywords": ["enterprise", "annual"],
  "pricingSignalScore": 86,
  "changeStatus": "baseline",
  "contentHash": "b8b4c6d2...",
  "priceHash": "83a9f0...",
  "crmNote": "example.com pricing monitor: 2 prices, 3 plans, changeStatus=baseline, signal=86.",
  "actionNote": "Store as baseline pricing intelligence and schedule recurring monitoring.",
  "dedupeKey": "..."
}
```

### How Change Detection Works

The Actor returns:

- `contentHash`: hash of cleaned page text.
- `priceHash`: hash of detected prices, plans, and CTAs.
- `changeStatus`: `baseline`, `unchanged`, or `changed`.

For recurring monitoring, save a previous `contentHash` or `priceHash` and pass it in `previousHashes` during the next run.

### Notes And Limitations

- This Actor monitors public pages only.
- Some pricing pages render prices client-side or behind geolocation/personalization, so extracted prices may vary.
- Use the hashes for monitoring workflows; use the page URL as the final source of truth before making pricing decisions.
- It does not bypass logins or private customer portals.

### Pricing

Recommended launch pricing: `$2.00 / 1,000 pricing intelligence records`.

Primary event name: `Pricing intelligence record`.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

SaaS pricing, plans, or comparison page URLs to monitor.

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

Maximum URLs to process from startUrls.

## `includeText` (type: `boolean`):

Include cleaned text in the dataset. Disable for compact monitoring outputs.

## `maxTextChars` (type: `integer`):

Maximum cleaned page text characters to keep per result.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Optional terms to flag in pricing pages, such as enterprise, free trial, annual, usage-based, or credits.

## `previousHashes` (type: `array`):

Optional previous content hashes. If a page hash matches, changed is false; otherwise changed is true.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

HTTP timeout per pricing page.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://slack.com/pricing"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 20,
  "includeText": true,
  "maxTextChars": 12000,
  "keywords": [
    "enterprise",
    "free trial",
    "annual",
    "usage-based",
    "credits",
    "contact sales"
  ],
  "previousHashes": [],
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}
```

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://slack.com/pricing"
        }
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "enterprise",
        "free trial",
        "annual",
        "usage-based",
        "credits",
        "contact sales"
    ],
    "previousHashes": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("signalcrawl/saas-pricing-page-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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing" },
        { "url": "https://slack.com/pricing" },
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "enterprise",
        "free trial",
        "annual",
        "usage-based",
        "credits",
        "contact sales",
    ],
    "previousHashes": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("signalcrawl/saas-pricing-page-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://slack.com/pricing"
    }
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "enterprise",
    "free trial",
    "annual",
    "usage-based",
    "credits",
    "contact sales"
  ],
  "previousHashes": []
}' |
apify call signalcrawl/saas-pricing-page-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,signalcrawl/saas-pricing-page-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/zfVrxom1vpPE3dYuP/builds/srRO6naNpUtSCoYOb/openapi.json