Question about Platform Credits and Developer Payments

Hi Apify Community,
I have a question about the $5 monthly platform credit for free users:
When users consume their free credits on our actor, does Apify compensate developers for these credit-based usages?
I'd appreciate any clarification on how the payment system works with free credits.
Thanks!

Hall•11/28/24, 2:22 PM

Someone will reply to you shortly. In the meantime, this might help:

Oleg V.•11/28/24, 4:41 PM

@Kaito

No, Apify does not compensate developers for the usage of free platform credits by free-tier users. The $5 monthly platform credit is a benefit given to free-tier users to allow them to experiment with Apify services, such as running actors or using storage. When these credits are used to run an actor, no payment is made to the actor developer.

This arrangement incentivizes developers to offer high-quality actors for free or to optimize for usage that encourages users to upgrade to paid plans. If you want to earn from your actor, you would need to set up a paid actor or rely on paid users whose platform credits go beyond the free tier.

KaitoOP•11/28/24, 5:12 PM

@Oleg V. Got it.Thank you for your time.

KaitoOP•11/29/24, 2:22 PM

@Oleg V. How can I determine in my actor code whether the request is coming from a free or paid user? This way, I can tailor certain actions, such as guiding free users towards upgrading to a paid plan.

And Is this our collaborative website [https://apify.firstpromoter.com/home]? Can I earn rewards by sending my exclusive link?

Oleg V.•11/29/24, 4:22 PM

cc @Saurav Jain Please, can you help here

Saurav Jain•12/4/24, 5:32 AM

@Kaito : 💻creators-and-apify

azzouzana•12/4/24, 9:20 AM

@Kaito

You basically should call the isPaying user property, like this in js:

or this in python:

Aazzouzana @Kaito 👋 You basically should call the isPaying user property, like this in j...

KaitoOP•12/4/24, 9:50 AM

Wow.Thank u very much.It help me great!