Hello, there is one dude who keep doing
Hello, there is one dude who keep doing the same input like hundred times a day and make me lose money is there a way to block him? Pretty sure its a bot or malicious user
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optimistic-gold•2d ago
What's your pricing model ?
ppr
optimistic-gold•2d ago
many things that you can do :
1 - Move to PPE pricing model and increase fare for free users.
2 - limit number of results for free users.
An advanced approach would be to track usage externally by user id and act accordingly
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optimistic-gold•2d ago
But how come you’re losing money if your model is based on PPR? The user is charged per result, and your profit is also tied to the number of results unless you’re referring to additional infrastructure costs.
dude is running like a 1000 runs that charge small negative value
per day
because when the actor runs it charges me money
crazy, i have no idea why he is doing that, like what is the point
I guess he is doing this through api calls
same happened with me he was running hundreds of time with single input but then I implemented min input to be 5
But this is a little concerning as you knew because he has consented if he has not then you would never knew what was happening
Hi, the good practice is to always
Push at least one "error item" to the dataset as you can read in the docs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-result#push-at-least-one-error-item-to-the-dataset.
From your screenshot, I can see that the succesful runs ended up without any result which might result in losing moneyPay per result | Platform | Apify Documentation
Learn how to monetize your Actor with pay-per-result (PPR) pricing, charging users based on the number of results produced and stored in the dataset, and understand how to set profitable, transparent result-based pricing. --- In this model, you set a price per 1,000 results.
Usually those are not malicious users, they just misconfigured the run. We will block obviously malicious users but otherwise it is developer's responsibility to handle this.
As others said, long term aim for PPE where you can charge for start or invalid query. For PPR push "error results" to offset the cost