# SaaS Pricing Change Tracker (`springstea/saas-pricing-change-tracker`) Actor
Watches SaaS and subscription pricing pages and reports every change as structured data: price increases and decreases per plan, new and removed price points, plan lineup changes. 120 vendors built in (incl. Disney+, Hulu, Spotify), any pricing page supported.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/springstea/saas-pricing-change-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Kasım Genç](https://apify.com/springstea) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Marketing, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing
from $5.00 / 1,000 results
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# README
## SaaS Pricing Change Tracker
Watches SaaS pricing pages and reports every change as structured data — so you hear about a competitor's price move from your data pipeline, not from Twitter three weeks later.
- "Slack raised the Pro plan from $7.25 to $8.75 per user."
- "A new 'Growth' tier appeared between Pro and Enterprise."
- "The Free plan's price point disappeared from the page."
**120 vendors built in** — B2B SaaS (Slack, Notion, GitHub, Figma, Zapier, OpenAI, Anthropic, Shopify, Jira...) **and consumer/streaming subscriptions** (Disney+, Hulu, Spotify, Apple TV+, Apple One, Plex...) across 27 categories, each verified to expose prices in server-rendered HTML. You can also point it at **any pricing page** with a custom URL.
### Who uses this
- **Product marketing & competitive intelligence** — automated competitor price monitoring.
- **SaaS founders** — track your market segment's pricing moves and packaging experiments.
- **Procurement & finance** — get warned before your vendors' renewals get more expensive.
- **Analysts & content teams** — pricing-change feeds make great market coverage.
### How it works
Each run fetches the pricing pages, extracts structured **price points** (currency + amount + billing period + per-user flag + plan name from surrounding context), and diffs them against the snapshot from the previous run. Only vendors with actual changes produce records. Schedule it **daily or weekly** for a continuous feed and wire Apify integrations (Slack, webhooks, email) to the dataset.
- First run per vendor establishes a baseline (pushed as a `baseline` record by default).
- A wholesale currency switch (vendor serving €/£ instead of $ due to visitor location) is detected and reported as `currency_or_locale_changed` instead of producing dozens of fake price changes. Using **US proxies** (see input) keeps the currency stable between runs.
- If a page stops exposing prices in its HTML, the vendor fails loudly and its snapshot is left untouched — no phantom "everything was removed" records.
### Input
```json
{
"vendors": [
"slack",
"notion",
"figma",
{ "name": "Acme Corp", "pricingUrl": "https://acme.com/pricing" }
]
}
````
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `vendors` \* | `array` | Registry slugs and/or `{ name, pricingUrl }` objects. |
| `emitBaselineRecords` | `boolean` | Push current price points as `baseline` on the first run per vendor. Default `true`. |
| `snapshotStoreName` | `string` | Named key-value store for snapshots between runs. |
| `maxConcurrency` | `integer` | Pages fetched in parallel. Default 5. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | Recommended: US proxies for currency stability. |
#### Built-in registry (120 vendors)
- **AI:** `anthropic`, `elevenlabs`, `openai`
- **Analytics:** `amplitude`, `hotjar`, `mixpanel`, `posthog`
- **Automation:** `zapier`
- **CRM & Sales:** `attio`, `close`, `copper`, `pipedrive`
- **Cloud Hosting:** `digitalocean`, `netlify`, `render`, `vercel`
- **Communication:** `slack`, `twilio`
- **Communication APIs:** `ably`, `getstream`, `onesignal`, `pusher`
- **Customer Support:** `front`, `gorgias`, `helpscout`, `intercom`, `zendesk`
- **Data & Analytics:** `census`, `confluent`, `fivetran`, `rudderstack`
- **Databases:** `cockroachdb`, `influxdata`, `mongodb`, `neo4j`, `planetscale`, `supabase`
- **Design:** `figma`, `framer`, `webflow`
- **DevOps & CI/CD:** `buildkite`, `circleci`
- **Developer Tools:** `algolia`, `bitbucket`, `github`, `jfrog`, `launchdarkly`, `ngrok`, `ona`, `postman`, `readme`, `retool`
- **Documents:** `docusign`, `dropbox-sign`, `pandadoc`
- **E-commerce:** `bigcommerce`, `easypost`, `recharge`, `shippo`, `shipstation`, `shopify`
- **Education:** `coursera`, `kahoot`
- **Email:** `mailgun`, `mailjet`, `postmark`, `resend`, `sparkpost`
- **File Storage:** `box`, `dropbox`
- **HR & Finance Ops:** `gusto`, `quickbooks`, `xero`
- **Infrastructure:** `bunny`, `cloudflare`, `cloudinary`, `imgix`
- **Marketing:** `hootsuite`, `mailchimp`, `semrush`
- **Media & Video:** `descript`, `loom`, `mux`
- **Monitoring:** `bugsnag`, `honeycomb`, `newrelic`, `opsgenie`, `rollbar`, `sentry`, `statuspage`
- **Payments & Fintech:** `coinbase-one`, `paddle`, `recurly`, `square`
- **Productivity:** `airtable`, `asana`, `atlassian-jira`, `basecamp`, `calendly`, `clickup`, `grammarly`, `linear`, `miro`, `monday`, `notion`, `smartsheet`, `trello`
- **Security:** `1password`, `bitwarden`, `duo`, `knowbe4`, `snyk`, `tailscale`
- **Streaming & Consumer:** `apple-one`, `appletv`, `disneyplus`, `hulu`, `philo`, `plex`, `spotify`
### Output
One dataset record per vendor with changes:
```json
{
"vendor": "Slack",
"slug": "slack",
"category": "Communication",
"pricingUrl": "https://slack.com/pricing",
"changeType": "price_increased",
"priceChanges": [
{
"plan": "Pro",
"period": "month",
"perUser": true,
"currency": "$",
"old": 7.25,
"new": 8.75,
"direction": "increased"
}
],
"pricesAdded": [],
"pricesRemoved": [],
"plansAdded": [],
"plansRemoved": [],
"changes": [
{ "field": "price", "kind": "price_increased", "description": "Pro ($, month, per user): 7.25 -> 8.75" }
],
"currentPricePoints": [ { "plan": "Pro", "currency": "$", "amount": 8.75, "period": "month", "perUser": true } ],
"plansDetected": ["Free", "Pro", "Business"],
"currencies": ["$"],
"detectedAt": "2026-07-10T15:58:13.665Z",
"source": "vendor pricing page (server-rendered HTML)"
}
```
#### `changeType` values
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `baseline` | First run for a vendor — current extracted price points. |
| `price_increased` / `price_decreased` | A plan's price moved (see `priceChanges`). |
| `price_added` / `price_removed` | A price point appeared/disappeared (new tier, killed tier, promo). |
| `plans_changed` | Plan lineup changed (see `plansAdded`/`plansRemoved`). |
| `currency_or_locale_changed` | Page switched display currency — comparison skipped for this run. |
| `pricing_updated` | Other pricing-relevant change. |
A run summary (vendors checked, failures, counts per change type) is stored under the `OUTPUT` key of the default key-value store.
### Honesty notes
- Extraction is heuristic: plan names are inferred from text near each price. On dense pages (usage-based pricing calculators) some points may carry no plan label — they are still tracked and diffed by their price context.
- Vendors that render prices only client-side (JavaScript) are not in the registry — that's why e.g. Netflix, Max, Peacock and YouTube Premium are absent while Disney+, Hulu and Spotify are included. Custom URLs for such pages will fail loudly rather than report empty prices.
- Prices shown to different visitors can vary (A/B tests, geo). Consistent US proxies minimize this; treat single-run anomalies as a signal to check the page, not as gospel.
# Actor input Schema
## `vendors` (type: `array`):
Pricing pages to watch. Each entry is either a built-in registry slug (slack, notion, github, openai, disneyplus, hulu, spotify, ... — 120 verified vendors incl. streaming/consumer subscriptions, full list in the README) or an object for any pricing page: {"name": "Acme", "pricingUrl": "https://acme.com/pricing"}. Custom pages work when prices are present in the server-rendered HTML.
## `emitBaselineRecords` (type: `boolean`):
On the first run per vendor there is nothing to compare against. When enabled, the currently extracted price points are pushed with changeType baseline.
## `snapshotStoreName` (type: `string`):
Named key-value store keeping per-vendor price snapshots between runs.
## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):
Pricing pages fetched in parallel.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Recommended: US proxies, so vendors that localize prices by visitor location always serve the same currency between runs.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"vendors": [
"slack",
"notion",
"figma",
"zapier",
"linear",
"vercel"
],
"emitBaselineRecords": true,
"snapshotStoreName": "saas-pricing-tracker",
"maxConcurrency": 5
}
```
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"vendors": [
"slack",
"notion",
"figma",
"zapier",
"linear",
"vercel"
]
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("springstea/saas-pricing-change-tracker").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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "vendors": [
"slack",
"notion",
"figma",
"zapier",
"linear",
"vercel",
] }
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("springstea/saas-pricing-change-tracker").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 '{
"vendors": [
"slack",
"notion",
"figma",
"zapier",
"linear",
"vercel"
]
}' |
apify call springstea/saas-pricing-change-tracker --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=springstea/saas-pricing-change-tracker",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "SaaS Pricing Change Tracker",
"description": "Watches SaaS and subscription pricing pages and reports every change as structured data: price increases and decreases per plan, new and removed price points, plan lineup changes. 120 vendors built in (incl. Disney+, Hulu, Spotify), any pricing page supported.",
"version": "0.1",
"x-build-id": "c7MKdQ49BxQrnWWmN"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/springstea~saas-pricing-change-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-springstea-saas-pricing-change-tracker",
"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/springstea~saas-pricing-change-tracker/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-springstea-saas-pricing-change-tracker",
"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/springstea~saas-pricing-change-tracker/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-springstea-saas-pricing-change-tracker",
"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",
"required": [
"vendors"
],
"properties": {
"vendors": {
"title": "Vendors",
"type": "array",
"description": "Pricing pages to watch. Each entry is either a built-in registry slug (slack, notion, github, openai, disneyplus, hulu, spotify, ... — 120 verified vendors incl. streaming/consumer subscriptions, full list in the README) or an object for any pricing page: {\"name\": \"Acme\", \"pricingUrl\": \"https://acme.com/pricing\"}. Custom pages work when prices are present in the server-rendered HTML."
},
"emitBaselineRecords": {
"title": "Emit baseline records on first run",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "On the first run per vendor there is nothing to compare against. When enabled, the currently extracted price points are pushed with changeType baseline.",
"default": true
},
"snapshotStoreName": {
"title": "Snapshot store name",
"type": "string",
"description": "Named key-value store keeping per-vendor price snapshots between runs.",
"default": "saas-pricing-tracker"
},
"maxConcurrency": {
"title": "Max concurrency",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 15,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Pricing pages fetched in parallel.",
"default": 5
},
"proxyConfiguration": {
"title": "Proxy configuration",
"type": "object",
"description": "Recommended: US proxies, so vendors that localize prices by visitor location always serve the same currency between runs."
}
}
},
"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
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```