When reading the developer documentation it is mentioned that Apify will cover the compute unit cost of the first 5 seconds of every Actor run when you use the

apify-actor-start

event. Link: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-event?fpr=7p4wu#use-synthetic-start-event-apify-actor-start Is it then correct to assume that Apify won't cover the compute unit cost of the first 5 seconds of every Actor run if we don't use the

apify-actor-start

event in our PPE actor? I'm asking this, because there was some confusion about this in the last Creator Cantina call. @Saurav Jain recommended not to charge a start event to be more competitive as we get the first 5 seconds for free. But as far as I understand it, we only get the first 5 seconds for free if we charge the

apify-actor-start

event. Can we get some clarification on this?

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I will ask our internal support and then come back to you.

Thank you for looking into this.

So it is as you thought - you have to use the synthetic

apify-actor-start

to get the free start.

Sorry if it was confusing. I meant this as two different things. Ideally to be competitive you don’t charge for actor start. But if you do, to make it as small as possible you can use this event to get first 5 seconds for free.

Thanks to both of you for looking into this and clarifying things! All clear now.