# SaaS Pricing And Messaging Monitor (`ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor`) Actor

Extract pricing tiers, prices, feature gates, calls to action, and messaging signals from public SaaS pricing pages.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [GhostGrid](https://apify.com/ghostgrid) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Marketing, Automation
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 pricing page snapshots

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?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public SaaS pricing page URLs to analyze.

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

Maximum number of pricing pages to process.

## `includeRawText` (type: `boolean`):

Include a compact excerpt of normalized page text for review.

## `includeHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Include a cleaned HTML excerpt for debugging selectors.

## `trackChanges` (type: `boolean`):

Persist the last successful public snapshot and compare future runs.

## `onlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

Push only first-seen or changed pages. Failed pages are still emitted, and a no\_changes status is emitted when a successful scan finds nothing new.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy settings. Most SaaS pricing pages work without proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://linear.app/pricing"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 10,
  "includeRawText": true,
  "includeHtml": false,
  "trackChanges": true,
  "onlyChanges": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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://linear.app/pricing"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-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://linear.app/pricing" },
        { "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/" },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-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://linear.app/pricing"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ghostgrid/saas-pricing-and-messaging-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/JRDdyyzba222jGqgy/builds/eSDj4KCatepIXXlgb/openapi.json