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  • Deletes repeated and outdated content around monetization.
  • The only unique content worth saving was the pricing tips, so I created a new topic for it. For now, I just copied it, rephrased it slightly to make it sound less market-y, and deleted some outdated info. Turning it into a more useful topic (by focusing on analytics) will be a separate task.

Closes #2885 and #1290

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✅ Preview for this PR (commit 7e09390) is ready at https://pr-2998.preview.docs.apify.com (see action run).

@szaganek szaganek changed the title docs: Move monetization overview from Acadamy docs: Move monetization overview from Academy Sep 18, 2026

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Approving with a few nits, nothing blocking.

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title: Marketing tips for defining the Actor price

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Nit: I cannot explain but that title bothers me. Maybe because it's too marketingy? Maybe something like

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title: Marketing tips for defining the Actor price
title: Find the right price for your Actor

Could work here?

title: Marketing tips for defining the Actor price
sidebar_label: Pricing tips
description: Learn how to find the right price for your Actor by comparing competing tools, accounting for the platform features, and adjusting the pricing based on conversion rates.
slug: /actors/publishing/monetize/pricing-tips

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Is the skip of pricing-and-costs in slug intentional?

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title: Marketing tips for defining the Actor price
sidebar_label: Pricing tips
description: Learn how to find the right price for your Actor by comparing competing tools, accounting for the platform features, and adjusting the pricing based on conversion rates.

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nit: 169 chars (tho we can also discuss how big of leeway we can allow here, right now is ~5 words both ways)

Maybe

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description: Learn how to find the right price for your Actor by comparing competing tools, accounting for the platform features, and adjusting the pricing based on conversion rates.
description: Learn how to price your Actor by comparing competing tools, accounting for platform features, and adjusting the pricing based on conversion rates.


## Adapt your pricing

Don’t be afraid to experiment with pricing, especially at the beginning. You can also [pass platform usage costs to users](/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-event#platform-usage-costs) while figuring out the right price.

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On one hand this is good advice, on the other, isn't there mandatory 14 day waiting period to adjust pricing? I guess we don't control that.

IIRC going lower on pricing is immediate, maybe we could rephrase to suggest starting higher and adjusting?


Your Actor is a package deal. Every Apify platform feature adds value on top of your code: scheduling, monitoring runs, different ways of exporting data, proxies, and integrations.

Make sure to consider these features in your tool's value proposition and communicate it to the potential users.

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Is the the necessary here?

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