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Starting an Actor takes time, and creates additional cost for the Actor creator, because the profit equals revenue minus platform costs.
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Starting an Actor takes time, and creates additional cost for the Actor creator, because the profit equals revenue minus platform costs.
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One of the options to charge for the time spent on starting the Actor is to charge an “Actor start” event. Let’s say $1 for 1000 Actor starts. Unfortunately, this makes your Actor comparably expensive with other tools on the market (outside of [Apify Store](/platform/console/store)) that do not incur this startup cost.
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One of the options to charge for the time spent on starting the Actor is to charge an “Actor start” event. Let’s say $1 for 1000 Actor starts. Unfortunately, this makes your Actor comparably expensive with other tools on the market (outside of [Apify Store](/platform/console/store)) that do not incur this startup cost.
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We want to make it easier for Actor creators to stay competitive, but also help them to be profitable. Therefore, we have the Apify Actor synthetic start event `apify-actor-start`.
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#### How the synthetic start event works
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- The Apify Actor start event is **automatically enabled** for all new PPE Actors. For existing Actors, you can enable it in Apify Console.
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- Apify **automatically charges** the event.
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- You must _not_ manually charge for the synthetic start event (`apify-actor-start`) in your Actor code. If you attempt to charge this event yourself, the operation will fail.
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- Apify **automatically charges** the event.
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- You must _not_ manually charge for the synthetic start event (`apify-actor-start`) in your Actor code. If you attempt to charge this event yourself, the operation will fail.
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- The price of the event is **$0.00005**, which equals **$0.05 per 1,000 starts**.
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- The number of events charged **depends on the memory** of the Actor run. Up to and including 1 GB of RAM, the event is charged once. Then it's charged once for each extra GB of memory. For example:
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- 128 MB RAM: 1 event, $0.00005
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- 1 GB RAM: 1 event, $0.00005
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- 4 GB RAM: 4 events, $0.0002
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- 128 MB RAM: 1 event, $0.00005
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- 1 GB RAM: 1 event, $0.00005
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- 4 GB RAM: 4 events, $0.0002
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- You can increase the price of the event if you wish, but you **won't get more free compute**.
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- You can delete the event if you wish, but if you do, you will **lose the free 5 seconds** of compute.
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