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extended-salmon
Help with pricing on Ai Product Matcher
Has anyone found a solution to lowering the cost of the Ai Product Matcher?
at $10 per 1000 results it is way too cost prohibitive
Currently, the pricing plan is completely cost prohibitive because I have three sites I want to compare and if I scrape 10 product from 3 sites that is 10 x 10 x10 or 1000 results which is $10 cost.
I need to search for 100 products at least per category meaning it is 100x100x100 or 1,000,000 results or $1,000 per category. There are hundreds of categories too... simply put it would cost $100,000+ to actually run this software as it is meant to be run.
Basically, it is great to see it is possible but functionally it is pointless because of pricing.
Pricing is here:
https://apify.com/equidem/ai-product-matcher#how-much-will-it-cost
two separate datasets of products - this one is more complicated because the Actor has to try all the possible pairings of products. Meaning that if you have x products from the first online store and y products from the second, the number of results will be x*y (e.g. for 50 products from the first online store and 30 from the second, the final number of results will be 1500).
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extended-salmonOP•2y ago
spoke with Matěj Sochor and basically he said the following:
Hi Zach,
you are right that the price for comparing raw product data from different online shops can seem prohibitive. This is caused by inherent limitations of the current pay-per-result system that we had to work around. There are two possible solutions:
1. Preprocess the data before you run it through the matcher, to make a dataset of pairs. You can do this for instance by combining every product from one shop to every product from another, and if one word from the product name matches, you create a new pair in the dataset. This should drastically reduce the expense, and is the primary way the matcher is intended to be used (check the "a dataset containing candidate pairs" option in the "How to specify input datasets?" section of the readme - https://apify.com/equidem/ai-product-matcher#how-to-specify-input-datasets )
2. If the volume you would like to process is large enough (at least tens of thousands of products), you could contact our enterprise team (https://apify.com/enterprise) for a custom solution price estimate, where we can do the first option for you, and even fine-tune the AI matcher model to better suit your use-case if it is needed.
Best,
Matěj
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Match products across multiple e-commerce websites. Use this AI product matching Actor whenever you need to find matching pairs of products from different online shops for dynamic pricing, competitor analysis or market research.
extended-salmonOP•2y ago
It's really too bad.. I'm going to have to look at a whole other solution now.
Probably just make something myself to product match and use https://smartproxy.com/scraping/ecommerce to scrape data
Already much cheaper reality. I just wish I could have something turn key that was affordable. Just don't understand what the point of your actor is if no one can actually use it
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other-emerald•2y ago
Yeah gonna have to agree with you on this one
Quite sad that apify made it cost so much
It’s really only good for people with a large amount of cash and that’s it
broad-brown•2y ago
Thanks for feedback, I will voice this to the company, hopefully we can make it cheaper and more convenient