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When publishing your Actor on the Apify platform, you have the choice to make it a **Paid Actor** and get paid by the users benefiting from your tool.
Apify Store allows you to monetize your web scraping and automation projects by publishing them as Paid Actors. This guide explains the available pricing models and how to get started.

## Pricing models

All Actors in [Apify Store](https://apify.com/store) fall into one of these three pricing models:
Actors in the Apify Store can be published under one of the following pricing models:

1. **free** - you can run the Actor freely, and you only pay for platform usage the Actor generates.
2. **rental** - same as free, but in order to be able to run the Actor after the trial period, you need to rent it from the developer and pay a flat monthly fee on the top of the platform usage that the Actor generates.
3. **paid per result** - you do not pay for the platform usage that the Actor generates but only for the results it produces.
1. **Free**: Users can run the Actor without any additional charges beyond the platform usage costs generated by the Actor
2. **Rental**: Users pay for the platform usage costs. However, after a trial period, they need to pay a flat monthly fee to the develop to continue using the Actor
3. **Pay per Result**: Users don't pay for the platform usage costs. Instead, they pay the developer based on the number of results produced by the Actor.
4. **Pay per Event**: Users don't pay for the platform usage cost the Actor generates. Instead, they pay based on specific events defined by the developer, such as generating a single result or initiating the Actor.

## Where to start

To start monetizing your Actor, follow our guide in [Apify Academy](/academy/get-most-of-actors/monetizing-your-actor).
To monetize your Actor, follow the step-by-step guide in the [Apify Academy: Monetizing Your Actor](https://docs.apify.com/academy/get-most-of-actors/monetizing-your-actor). This guide covers the process of setting up pricing, configuring billing, and publishing your Paid Actor to the Apify Store.