Price monitoring tools compared (2026)
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Price drop on shop.example: Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5.
−757 €
+699 €
In short. Price monitoring tools come in two kinds. If you have a few dozen pages to watch, a page monitor is enough. If you have a catalogue to match, you want the first kind.
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Price monitoring tools come in two kinds:
- Competitor price software for shops (Prisync, Price2Spy, Pricefy) matches your catalogue against competitors' and reports on hundreds or thousands of products. It is priced by the number of products. The lowest price listed on their pages is $49 a month.
- Page monitors (Visualping, Distill, PageCrawl, UptimeRobot, Gairė) watch any page you give them and tell you when its price changes. They are priced by the number of pages, and all of them have a free plan.
We make Gairė, one of the eight. We say where another tool fits better.
For a shop's whole catalogue
| Prisync | Price2Spy | Pricefy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 14-day trial, no card | 14-day trial, no card | Free plan: 50 products, 5 competitors, checked daily |
| Cheapest paid plan | $99 a month: 100 products, unlimited competitors | Not shown on its page (Premium: price on request) | $49 a month ($37 billed yearly): 100 products |
| How often prices are checked | 3 times a day (competitor URLs) or daily (sales channels) | Up to 8 times a day, on Premium | Twice a day |
| Alerts | Email: daily from Premium ($199), instant on Platinum ($399) | Daily on Starter, instant from Basic | Price change notifications and email reports, from Starter |
| Also | Marketplace price tracking from Premium; API at +20% | Product matching; API on Premium | Repricing from Pro ($99); marketplace analysis |
For a few pages, on any site
| Gairė | Visualping | Distill | PageCrawl | UptimeRobot (free price tool) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 10 pages, checked hourly; 30 texts and 300 emails a month; no card | 5 pages, 150 checks a month, hourly | 25 monitors in your browser, 5 in the cloud (every 6 hours) | 6 pages, 220 checks a month, hourly | Up to 50 pages, every 5 minutes, no card |
| Cheapest paid plan | €12 a month or €120 a year: 50 pages, 5 of them every 15 minutes, 60 texts | $14 a month: 10 pages, 1,000 checks, every 15 minutes | $15 a month: 50 monitors, every 10 minutes, 100 texts | $160 a year ($13.33 a month): up to 200 pages, every 15 minutes | Not stated on the page |
| Text messages | Included on every plan, to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal | From $35 a month, to the US and Canada only | 100 a month from $15 (countries not stated) | Not listed | No (email) |
| What an alert says | The item and its old and new price: "Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5: 757 € → 699 €" | The change in the part of the page you chose, highlighted | The change, with conditions you set | The change, with price and stock as data | An email that the price changed |
| "Only tell me when…" | A price below or above a figure, or a word in the name | Keywords | Conditions | Price and word rules | Not stated |
Each tool read on its own pages on 22 October 2026 (features of Visualping, Distill and PageCrawl on 19 October); Gairė from gaire.lt the same day. Monthly prices before tax, in the currency each tool sells in.
Which one fits
- You have hundreds of products and need them matched to competitors' listings: Prisync, Price2Spy or Pricefy. Pricefy's paid plans start lowest, at $49 a month, and it has a free plan for 50 products.
- You want many pages for little money, and email is enough: UptimeRobot's free price tool (50 pages, every 5 minutes) or PageCrawl ($160 a year for up to 200 pages).
- You need checks every few minutes: Visualping, Distill, PageCrawl or UptimeRobot. Gairė's fastest is every 15 minutes.
- You want a text in the US or Canada: Visualping. Gairė's texts don't reach those numbers, though its emails reach anywhere.
- You want a text in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland or Portugal, included in the price: Gairė.
- You watch a list page (a category, a search, a listings feed): Gairė reads the list as items. It tells you which item is new, which dropped in price and which sold out, not just "the page changed". PageCrawl also reports new items on a list.
- You're a shopper with one thing in mind: Chrome's built-in price tracking may be enough, if you live where it works (see the questions below).
Where Gairė fits
Gairė is a page monitor. It reads a page as items and prices, and it texts you or messages you in Telegram what changed: a price, a new listing, an item back in stock. It suits a small shop watching a few dozen competitor pages, or a buyer waiting for one price. It has a public record for every watch, with its checks, its misses and how fast each alert went out.
What it doesn't do yet: chart a price over time. It doesn't match a catalogue or reprice; the shop tools above do.
Questions
- What is a price monitoring tool?
- It checks a product page, or a competitor's catalogue, on a schedule and tells you when a price changes. Shop tools also match products and report across a catalogue. Page monitors watch the pages you give them.
- Is there a free price monitoring tool?
- Yes. Pricefy's free plan covers 50 products, checked daily. UptimeRobot's free price tool covers up to 50 pages, with email alerts. Gairė's free plan covers 10 pages hourly, with 30 texts a month. Visualping, Distill and PageCrawl have small free plans.
- How often should prices be checked?
- For a competitor's everyday prices, once or a few times a day is usually enough. For short sales and stock that sells out fast, hourly or faster.
- Can I get a text message when a price drops?
- Yes, from Gairė (included, to five European countries), Visualping (US and Canada, from $35 a month) and Distill (from $15 a month).
- Does Chrome track prices?
- Yes, for people in Australia, Canada, India, Japan and the US who are signed in to Chrome with tab and history sync on. It alerts by email, and on Android also by notification.
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