A Wachete alternative with hourly checks free and texts included
Gairė checks your pages every hour on the free plan and tells you the exact change: a price, a new listing, an item back in stock, 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, from checks made in Lithuania. Pick Wachete if you want many pages for little money, checks every few minutes, sign-in pages or PDFs.
Side by side
Gairė: read from gaire.lt on 22 October 2026.
Wachete: read from wachete.com on 22 October 2026.
| What | Gairė | Wachete |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 10 pages, checked every hour, 30 texts and 300 emails a month. No card. | 5 pages (1 dynamic), checked every 24 hours |
| 20 pages, checked every hour | €12 a month on Plus (up to 50 pages), or €120 for a year | $5.40 a month on Starter: 50 pages (1 dynamic), every 60 minutes |
| Checks every few minutes | No. Every hour, every 15 minutes on 5 pages with Plus | Yes. Every 10 minutes on Standard ($10.90), every 5 on Premium ($54.90) |
| What an alert says | Yes. The item and its old and new value: “Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5: 757 € → 699 €” | Partly. The text removed in red and added in green |
| Lists and rules | New items, price drops and rises, back in stock, sold out; price and word rules | Rules on numbers, text and your own formula; a whole site and its linked pages |
| Text messages | Yes. Included on every plan, to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal | No. Not built in; through Zapier or Pabbly Connect |
| Other channels | Yes. Email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord, a signed webhook and an API | Yes. Email, app push, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhooks, API, Zapier, MCP |
| Price chart over time | No. Not yet | Yes. Numbers such as prices on a chart, up to 5 years back |
| 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. On every plan, Free included |
| PDFs and documents | No. Not read | Yes. PDF, DOC, DOCX and XLSX, on every plan |
| Where checks come from | From Lithuania, as a visitor there sees the page | Servers in several places around the world; your own proxies |
Sources: wachete.com (Pricing section, monthly), wachete.com/features, wachete.com/faq, wachete.com/monitor-price-changes, gaire.lt. Re-checked monthly.
Not affiliated with Wachete. If a row is wrong, write to maksim@gaire.lt.
Who should pick which
Pick Gairė if
- You want hourly checks on the free plan.
- You want each item's old and new value by text or WhatsApp, included.
- Your pages are Lithuanian.
- You'd like a public record of each watch.
Pick Wachete if
- You want many pages for little money: 50 hourly for $5.40 a month.
- You need checks every few minutes, sign-in pages or PDFs, even on a free plan.
- You want prices on a chart over the years.
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 Wachete 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 Wachete history stays there.
- Which is cheaper?
- For many pages, Wachete: 50 hourly pages for $5.40 a month. Gairė's Plus is €12 a month for 50 pages, with texts included.
- Does Wachete send texts?
- Through Zapier or Pabbly Connect, not built in. Gairė includes texts on every plan.
Also
Free, no card.