A ChangeTower alternative with hourly checks on the free plan
Gairė checks 10 pages every hour for free and tells you the exact change, by text or email.
In short
Pick Gairė if you want hourly checks on the free plan and the exact change by text, WhatsApp or Telegram, included: 20 hourly pages cost €12 a month with Plus. Pick ChangeTower if you want an AI summary and a screenshot of every check, team reports, or checks every 20 minutes.
Side by side
Gairė: read from gaire.lt on 22 October 2026.
ChangeTower: read from changetower.com on 22 October 2026.
| What | Gairė | ChangeTower |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 10 pages, checked every hour, 30 texts and 300 emails a month. No card. | 3 pages, checked daily, with AI monitoring and email alerts |
| 20 pages, checked every hour | €12 a month on Plus (up to 50 pages), or €120 for a year | $36 a month ($29 billed yearly) on Essential: 100 pages, hourly |
| Checks every few minutes | No. Every hour, every 15 minutes on 5 pages with Plus | Partly. Every 20 minutes on Business ($78); faster on Enterprise |
| What an alert says | Yes. The item and its old and new value: “Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5: 757 € → 699 €” | Partly. An AI summary of what changed, with removed text in red and new in green |
| Lists and rules | New items, price drops and rises, back in stock, sold out; price and word rules | Keywords on every plan; AI criteria such as "only when the price drops" |
| Text messages | Yes. Included on every plan, to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal | No. Not among its alert channels |
| Other channels | Yes. Email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord, a signed webhook and an API | Yes. Email on every plan; Slack, webhooks and MCP on Business and Enterprise |
| A screenshot of every check | Partly. A screenshot of the page and of each change | Yes. A full-page screenshot on every check |
| A public record of each watch | Yes. Its checks, misses and alert times, at its own address | No. Not stated on its pages |
| Pages behind a sign-in | No. Not read: Gairė reads public pages | Yes. From Essential ($36), with recorded actions |
| AI summary of each change | No. Not yet: it sends the item and its old and new value | Yes. On every plan, Free included |
| Where checks come from | From Lithuania | Data held in the United States; more regions on Enterprise |
Sources: changetower.com/pricing, changetower.com/faqs, changetower.com/integrations, the features pages: content monitoring, manual user actions, AI monitoring, email notifications, scheduled monitoring, screenshots and archiving, gaire.lt. Re-checked monthly.
Not affiliated with ChangeTower. If a row is wrong, write to maksim@gaire.lt.
Who should pick which
Pick Gairė if
- You want hourly checks on 10 pages for free.
- You want each item's old and new value by text or WhatsApp, included.
- 20 hourly pages for €12 is enough.
Pick ChangeTower if
- You want an AI summary and a full screenshot of every check.
- You need sign-in pages, team reports or white-label reports.
- You need checks every 20 minutes.
Questions
- Is Gairė free?
- Yes: 10 pages, checked every hour, with 30 texts and 300 emails a month, and no card.
- Can I move my ChangeTower monitors to Gairė?
- Paste each page's address; several can be added at once. Gairė shows what it reads on each before anything is saved. Your ChangeTower history stays there.
- Does Gairė summarise changes with AI?
- Not yet. It sends the change itself: the item and its old and new value.
- Which costs less for hourly checks?
- Gairė checks 10 pages every hour for free. ChangeTower's hourly checks start on Essential, $36 a month ($29 billed yearly), for 100 pages. With Plus, Gairė checks up to 50 pages hourly for €12 a month.
Also
Free, no card.