Actual Cost metric in ad-performance-report

[Armalytics Dev]

Hi,

I am trying to create ad-performance-report referring below URL.

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/v201806/ad-performance-report#cost

But in metrics of this report I could not see any metric which will help me to identify Actual Cost.

There is Cost metric but it is the sum of your cost-per-click (CPC) and cost-per-thousand impressions (CPM) costs during this period

Please let me know what is the correct metrics to get actual cost.

[Teja Makani]

Hello,

The cost field in the Ad Performance Report is the sum of your spend during that period on that particular Ad. It is the actual cost that matches with the cost field of UI, you could refer this guide to know the corresponding API reports matches to the UI. If you are facing any issue, please share the report definition along with the client customer id. You can use reply privately to the author option while responding.

Regards,
Sai Teja, AdWords API Team.