diff --git a/.github/workflows/canary.yml b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
index bcad7db..46968ae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/canary.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: canary
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: "41 6 * * *"   # once daily; avoid :00 so it doesn't pile up with everyone else's
+    - cron: "41 6 * * 1"   # weekly, Mondays (every run bills a Scraping Browser session); avoid :00 so it doesn't pile up with everyone else's
   workflow_dispatch: {}     # dispatch manually at least once before trusting the badge
 
 jobs:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bc46de5..6191565 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ rather than being a silent violation of that.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- CI only: the canary bills a Scraping Browser session (`PERPLEXITY_CDP_ENDPOINT`),
+  so it now runs weekly (Mondays 06:41 UTC) instead of daily; a manual dispatch
+  still runs it.
+
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-16
 
 > **Behaviour changes.** `--retries`, `--retry-delay`,
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index da66d80..9a3e53b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 2. Run `python3 smoke_test.py` (or `pytest tests/test_smoke.py`). It is offline and must pass with **no** engine installed; install one engine (`pip install -r requirements-playwright.txt`, or `-selenium` / `-puppeteer`) to exercise its code too.
 3. **If you touched `page_parser.py`**: every parser check runs on real captures in `tests/fixtures/` (the `/rest/article/` API for a classic Page and a Discover article, the Discover feed, and a Cloudflare challenge page). If the site changed shape, save a scrubbed capture of what it serves now next to them, update the parser to match, and add a `smoke_test.py` check against the new fixture. Don't change the parser on a guess without a capture behind it.
 4. Keep the three engines behaving identically: same exit codes, same `Product` schema, same CLI flags. The fetch logic itself lives once in `page_flow.fetch_article()`; an engine only supplies its driver's own page operations. If one engine has to diverge (see `selenium_scraper.py`'s CDP-credential limitation), say why in a comment.
-5. Open a PR. CI runs the offline suite on two Python versions, builds the wheel and the Docker image, and runs one `engine-smoke` job per engine in its own virtualenv. A daily `canary` job scrapes the live site over the Scraping Browser API when the repo has the `PERPLEXITY_CDP_ENDPOINT` secret (see `TESTING.md`).
+5. Open a PR. CI runs the offline suite on two Python versions, builds the wheel and the Docker image, and runs one `engine-smoke` job per engine in its own virtualenv. A weekly (Mondays) `canary` job scrapes the live site over the Scraping Browser API when the repo has the `PERPLEXITY_CDP_ENDPOINT` secret (see `TESTING.md`).
 
 Bug reports and feature requests: open an issue. Please include the exact command you ran (without credentials) and the `.meta.json` sidecar from the run — or say that none was written, which is itself informative (see `output_writer.finish_run`). If an article came back blocked or empty, a `--dump-html` capture is the most useful thing you can attach.