Gairė vs PageCrawl
Both watch web pages and tell you what changed, and both come from Lithuania. Here is where each is the better pick, with dated sources for every figure.
In short
Pick Gairė if you want alerts by text, WhatsApp or Telegram to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland or Portugal, included on every plan. Pick PageCrawl if you want more pages for the money, checks every few minutes, PDFs, pages behind a sign-in, or AI summaries in Lithuanian.
Side by side
Gairė: read from gaire.lt on 22 October 2026.
PageCrawl: read from pagecrawl.io on 22 October 2026.
| What | Gairė | PageCrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 10 pages, checked every hour, 30 texts and 300 emails a month. No card. | 6 pages, 220 checks a month, hourly at most, 90 days of history |
| 20 pages, checked every hour | €12 a month on Plus (up to 50 pages), or €120 for a year | $160 a year on Standard: up to 200 pages, every 15 minutes |
| Checks every few minutes | No. Every hour, every 15 minutes on 5 pages with Plus | Yes. Every 15 minutes on Standard; every 2 minutes on Ultimate ($999 a year) |
| What an alert says | Yes. The item and its old and new value: “Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5: 757 € → 699 €” | Yes. A summary and the text change; in chat, a new price with the old one crossed out |
| Lists and rules | New items, price drops and rises, back in stock, sold out; price and word rules | Feeds and lists: items added, removed, changed; rules on price, numbers and keywords |
| Text messages | Yes. Included on every plan, to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal | No. Not included; through Zapier at extra cost |
| Other channels | Yes. Email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord, a signed webhook and an API | Yes. Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhooks, n8n, API, MCP and more, all plans |
| A public record of each watch | Yes. Its checks, misses and alert times, at its own address | Yes. A page's full change history can be made public |
| Pages behind a sign-in | No. Not read: Gairė reads public pages | Yes. On paid plans, from Standard, with login details you save |
| AI summary of each change | No. Not yet: it sends the item and its old and new value | Yes. On every plan (15 a month free), in 19 languages, Lithuanian included |
| PDFs | No. Not read | Yes. On every plan, Free included |
| Where checks come from | From Lithuania, as a visitor there sees the page | A location picker; residential connections on Enterprise and Ultimate |
Sources: pagecrawl.io/pricing, integrations, MCP server, SMS notifications, notification conditions, email notifications, chat alert attachments, AI-powered change detection, checks on the Standard plan, tracked monitoring types, password-protected websites, PDFs, public changelog and history, residential proxies, gaire.lt. Re-checked monthly.
Not affiliated with PageCrawl. If a row is wrong, write to maksim@gaire.lt.
Who should pick which
Pick Gairė if
- You want alerts by text or WhatsApp to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland or Portugal, included on every plan, free included.
- An hourly check is enough. Or every 15 minutes on your 5 most important pages.
- You'd like a public record that also shows each watch's checks, misses and alert times.
Pick PageCrawl if
- You want more pages for the money: up to 200 for $160 a year.
- You need checks every few minutes, PDFs, or pages behind a sign-in.
- You want an AI summary of each change, in Lithuanian or 18 other languages.
- You want more channels: Teams, Google Sheets, Dropbox and Home Assistant.
Questions
- Are both Lithuanian?
- Yes. Gairė is made in Vilnius, and PageCrawl's site is offered in Lithuanian among other languages.
- Which is cheaper?
- For many pages, PageCrawl: up to 200 for $160 a year. Gairė's Plus is €120 a year for 50 pages, with texts included.
- Does PageCrawl send texts?
- Not in its plans; its help points to Zapier, at extra cost. Gairė includes texts on every plan.
- Does Gairė read PDFs?
- Not yet. PageCrawl does, on every plan.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. Some people keep their page-change monitoring in one and use Gairė for the pages they want a text about.
Also
Free, no card.