You can turn your web scrapers into a source of income by publishing them on Apify Store. Learn how it's done and what monetization options you have.

Monetizing your Actor: steps

Monetizing your Actor on the Apify platform involves several key steps:

1. Development: create and refine your Actor.
2. Testing: ensure your Actor works reliably.
3. Publication & monetization: publish your Actor and set up its monetization model.
4. Promotion: attract users to your Actor.

Monetization models

1. Rental pricing model

• How it works: you offer a free trial period and set a monthly fee. Users on Apify paid plans can continue using the Actor after the trial. You earn 80% of the monthly rental fees.
• Example: you set a 7-day free trial and $30/month rental. If 3 users start using your Actor:
  • 1st user on a paid plan pays $30 after the trial (you earn $24).
  • 2nd user starts their trial but pays next month.
  • 3rd user on a free plan finishes the trial without upgrading to a paid plan and can’t use the Actor further.

2. Pay-per-result pricing model

• How it works: you charge users based on the number of results your Actor generates. You earn 80% of the revenue minus platform costs.
• Cost breakdown:
  • Compute unit: $0.4 per CU
  • Residential proxies: $13 per GB
  • SERPs proxy: $3 per 1,000 SERPs
  • Data transfer (external): $0.20 per GB
  • Dataset storage: $1 per 1,000 GB-hours
• Example: you set a $1 per 1,000 results price. Two users generate 50,000 and 20,000 results, paying $50 and $20, respectively. If platform costs are $5 and $2, your profit is $49.