exotic-emerald•4w ago
Hey bro,
Hey bro,
But are these numbers normal?
When I run the actor myself, the cost per 1,000 results is very low — but when customers run it, the cost becomes huge. I don’t understand why.
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@chinhfree Are you giving option to use proxy to the user, they either use residential one or the memory is set too high or either the user is starting the actor with single output or the user enters some url which dont produce any output due to error or if you retry in logic but still dont produce any result which consume resource but eventually dont produce result so you get loss
Can i see your actor, then i can help in more detailed way?
And you shoud set pricing by trying different sceneries like what if only one output is produced try with some invalid url and like this types to eventually set a best price
harsh-harlequin•4w ago
Hi,
My actor only needs the most minimal settings to run: timeout 180s, memory 128MB, no proxies required.
Here is my actor: https://apify.com/freshdata/linkedin-open-profile-status
I’ve only been active on this platform for a few days, so I don’t understand many things yet, especially about pricing. My revenue is $94, however my profit is only $34.
Apify
Linkedin Open Profile Status · Apify
Accurately detects whether a LinkedIn profile is open to receiving InMail messages (i.e., Open Profile status: true or false).
harsh-harlequin•4w ago
As you can see, my actor has 15k runs, and my price is set at $8 per 1,000 requests, so my revenue is around $90. I noticed that after my own test run, the platform cost per 1,000 results was only $0.684 — an insignificant number — but in reality, when customers run it, I’ve lost tens of dollars in costs.
@chinhfree just advanced to level 1! Thanks for your contributions! 🎉
have you run your actor on edge cases?
also you have not set a memory limit that means when anyone would run your actor it would start at 4GB so it also contribute to your cost however I guess not much but at high volume will surely contribute
harsh-harlequin•4w ago
All 15k runs were successful, with no 400 or 500 status codes.
How can I set a limit for the memory and timeout?
harsh-harlequin•4w ago
I can change them here, right?
yeah
harsh-harlequin•4w ago
oh my god! I don't know this simple knowledge
Thanks bro. You are so kind.
No issue, even I started losing tens on cost
have a good day!
@chinhfree As a creator, you can set memory limits in the .actor/actor.json file, defining both a minimum and a maximum value.
However, the timeout parameter can only be modified by the end user, not by the actor’s creator.
User section
harsh-harlequin•4w ago
@aciku Thank you so much!