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CPC

Updated 20 August 2026

Cost per click (CPC) is the average amount paid for one click on an ad, calculated by dividing ad spend by the number of clicks recorded in the same period.

Key facts about CPC

Abbreviation
CPC
Also known as
Cost per click
Formula
CPC = ad spend ÷ clicks
Category
Metrics
Last updated
20 August 2026

In AdOps

How does CPC work inside AdOps?

AdOps exposes two click-cost metrics: CPC (`cpc`), which counts every click, and CPC (link) (`cost_per_action_type.inline_link_click`), which counts only clicks that opened the advertiser's link. Both sit in the cost_efficiency category and accept all six comparison operators.

The AdOps metric picker open over a condition row: a panel with Meta Ads and Custom metrics tabs, a search box, and a scrolling list of metrics with Spend selected. Sample data
Forty-five Meta metrics and your own sheet columns in the same list, each carrying a reporting period and any of six operators. Read the details

Cost per click (CPC) is the average price of one click: ad spend divided by clicks over the same period. AdOps carries two versions of it in the rule builder, CPC for every click on the ad and CPC (link) for clicks that opened the advertiser’s link, and a condition can compare either against a threshold.

How is CPC calculated?

Rp 4,500,000 of spend that produced 9,000 clicks gives a CPC of Rp 500. The same Rp 4,500,000 producing 3,000 clicks gives a CPC of Rp 1,500, three times more expensive for identical money, and it pushes every downstream cost per result up with it.

All clicks counts reactions, comments, shares, page-name taps and image expansions as well as link taps. Link clicks counts only the taps that sent someone to the destination, so CPC (link) is always the higher number. CPC (link) is the figure that lines up with Landing page views, which AdOps also carries as a metric.

How is CPC used in an AdOps rule?

CPC and CPC (link) both accept all 6 comparison operators and any of the 11 reporting periods from Today to Lifetime. A common pairing puts CPC (link) over Last 7 days above a ceiling together with Purchase ROAS below 1 in a single AND group, so a campaign has to be both expensive and unprofitable before an action fires.

Glossary

The terms an advertiser usually reads in the same sitting.

CPM
Cost per mille (CPM) is the cost of 1,000 ad impressions, calculated by dividing ad spend by impressions and multiplying the result by 1,000.
CTR
Click-through rate (CTR) is the share of ad impressions that produced a click, calculated by dividing clicks by impressions and expressing the result as a percentage. Meta reports it twice: once for every click on the ad, and separately for link clicks only.
CPA
Cost per acquisition (CPA) is the average advertising cost of one conversion, calculated by dividing ad spend by the number of conversions recorded in the same period.
All glossary terms

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What the screens actually look like

Nine screens from the working dashboard — the rule builder, the metric picker, the dayparting grid and the log that records what happened. Scroll the strip.

  • The AdOps Performance Dashboard showing a Purchase ROAS card at 2.380x and an Aggregated ROAS card at 2.088x, both badged Profitable, a Monthly Budget card at Rp 155jt, and a Spend Breakdown ranking the top five ad accounts against a budget utilisation bar at 45.5 per cent.
    Performance Dashboard. Two ROAS figures to three decimals, a budget meter, and spend ranked by ad account — over Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days or This month.
  • The AdOps rule list showing twelve automation rules, each with an on/off toggle, the ad accounts it manages, and when it last triggered — some minutes ago, others on a dated timestamp.
    Rule List. Every rule, what it manages and when it last fired. The toggle is the only thing between draft and live.
  • The AdOps condition builder showing a task with time-of-day conditions across seven day tags, a nested AND group holding a lifetime spend condition under 400,000, and a second task with four stacked metric conditions.
    Conditions. Metric, period, operator, value — joined with AND or OR, and nestable, so a rule can say something a dropdown cannot.
  • The AdOps metric picker open over a condition row: a panel with Meta Ads and Custom metrics tabs, a search box, and a scrolling list of metrics with Spend selected.
    Metric picker. Forty-five Meta metrics and your own sheet columns in the same list, each carrying a reporting period and any of six operators.
  • The AdOps dayparting timetable: a grid of hours against the seven days of the week, with the daytime hours filled navy for every day and the night hours and weekend evenings left empty.
    Dayparting grid. Or draw the hours instead. Anything outside the shape you fill in simply does not run.
  • An AdOps execution log detail: one campaign, two action panels badged Not Executed, each listing the action parameters and every condition evaluated with its actual value, its expected value and a Pass or Fail badge.
    Rule Log detail. Why a rule did nothing is recorded as carefully as why it did something — actual against expected, condition by condition.
  • The AdOps activity log listing budget increases and campaign renames, each row naming the affected campaign by id, the rule that caused it and how long ago it happened.
    Activity Log. One row per change AdOps made in your account, naming the campaign and the rule responsible.
  • The AdOps ad account list: eighteen Meta ad accounts with on/off toggles, account ids, Active or Inactive badges and this month’s spend in rupiah.
    Ad Accounts. Accounts discovered from Meta arrive switched off. Nothing is read, and nothing is changed, until you turn one on.
  • The AdOps custom metric editor mapping a Google Spreadsheet: a spreadsheet id, a sheet name, a column to match campaigns on and a column holding the values.
    Custom metric. Point AdOps at a sheet, name the matching column and the value column, and your own number joins the metric list.

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