Distill Alternative
RivalPeek.io is a competitor intelligence assistant for small teams. Track competitors' pricing, changelog and release notes, hiring on public careers pages, and messaging or homepage copy changes with plain-English rules.
The weekly competitor digest groups detected changes by site and includes short AI-written notes on what they may mean for you when available. It is available on paid plans and during an active trial, with email enabled; quiet weeks send nothing. Free gets a short brief for its 1 rival. AI notes can be omitted when the model is unavailable.
If you are looking for a Distill alternative, start with the competitor signals your team needs to follow. RivalPeek.io lets you describe a monitoring request in plain English, review the proposed rule and current evidence, and approve the watch. It supports readable prices, stock, text and new listings. Distill offers additional capabilities, notably local browser monitoring, macros and SMS, that may be important to your workflow.
This comparison is as of November 2026. Distill details below come from Distill's pricing page and features page, captured on November 4, 2026. Check those sources before purchasing; this is a dated comparison, not a promise that another service's pricing will remain unchanged.
Compare the capacity you will use
| Capability | RivalPeek.io | Distill |
|---|---|---|
| Paid capacity | Starter: USD $19/month, 20 pages, ordinary checks every hour. Pro: USD $39/month, 150 pages, ordinary checks every 15 min. Business: USD $99/month, 500 pages, ordinary checks every 15 min. | Starter: $15/month, 50 monitors, cloud checks every 10 minutes, 30,000 cloud checks/month. Professional: $35/month, 150 monitors, every 5 minutes, 100,000 checks/month. Flexi: from $80/month, 500+ monitors, every 2 minutes, 200,000+ checks/month, usage-billed above the reservation. Annual billing: 20% discount. |
| Getting started | 14-day Pro trial, no card required. Then Free: 3 pages checked daily, email alerts only. | Free: $0, 25 monitors (5 in the cloud), cloud checks every 6 hours, 1,000 cloud checks/month, 30 email alerts/month. |
| How usage is counted | A page limit and a scheduled interval per plan; 10 / 50 / 200 manual checks per rolling 24 hours (Starter / Pro / Business). | Monthly cloud checks: one check per 10 seconds of run time, a solved reCAPTCHA v2 counts as 24 extra checks, and unused resources expire monthly. Checks in the browser extension are unlimited. |
| Defining what matters | One plain-English sentence becomes a rule you review (target, current reading, coverage limits) before it runs. | Visual selector; CSS, XPath and regex; single and compound conditions such as number ranges, regex and contains-text. |
| Before-check actions | No customer-configured login, click or form steps; limited fallback for protected pages. | Macros to log in, click or fill forms on paid plans; local macros through the desktop app. |
| Where checks run | RivalPeek.io servers, on the plan's schedule. | Cloud, plus the browser extension and desktop app on your own computer (intervals from 5 seconds). |
| Alerts | Email, Slack and webhook alerts (Slack and webhook on Pro and Business); an optional daily email digest; an alert if a watch stops working. | Email and webhook (30/month on Free, 2,000/month on Starter, unlimited above), push, SMS (100, 250 and 500+ per month on paid plans), Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams. |
| Change history | Matching changes stay on your Changes page with before-and-after evidence; price watches show a price history chart. | 10, 20 and 20 changes per monitor on Starter, Professional and Flexi; none on Free. |
| Apps and API | Web app with bulk link or CSV import. No browser extension, mobile app or public monitoring API. | Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge extensions; Windows, macOS and Linux desktop apps; iOS and Android apps; API access on request. |
Where each approach fits
RivalPeek.io is worth evaluating when you want an explicit, reviewed rule for a readable public source, such as a competitor's plan price, a product returning to stock, edited policy wording or a newly listed tender, and you would rather not maintain selectors or conditions yourself. Alerts arrive only when the approved rule matches. It can also suggest a competitor's key pages (pricing, product, updates, careers) from one address and send a weekly email digest of the changes it found.
Distill may fit better if you need local checks every few seconds from your own browser, macros that log in or fill forms, SMS or push alerts, mobile apps, or precise control with CSS, XPath and regex. Those are not RivalPeek.io features. Distill's plans also include a $0 option with cloud checks every 6 hours.
Page counts alone do not make the plans equivalent. Distill meters cloud checks by run time, so a slow page can use several checks per visit. RivalPeek.io meters pages and a fixed interval, with a separate manual-check allowance and slower, limited checking for protected pages. Test representative pages on both before moving a larger list.
How to evaluate RivalPeek.io
Create an account, paste a representative public URL, and describe the event that matters. Inspect the proposed target, rule, and current evidence before approving the watch. Configure your alert destination and review a matching change in context. Repeat with the different kinds of pages you intend to monitor before moving a larger watchlist.
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Choose your monitoring capacity
Choose a plan for the pages you need to follow. Starter costs USD $19/month for 20 pages, with ordinary checks every hour. Annual billing is USD $190/year. Pro costs USD $39/month for 150 pages, with ordinary checks every 15 min. Annual billing is USD $390/year. Business costs USD $99/month for 500 pages, with ordinary checks every 15 min. Annual billing is USD $990/year. These are scheduled checks, not a live stream; availability and the check queue can affect when a result arrives.
Pages requiring protected checking use a separate allowance and a slower schedule. Access is not guaranteed, and some sites block automated visits. Start with a representative public URL and review the result before expanding your watchlist.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to write CSS selectors or regex?
No. You describe the change in a sentence, then review and approve the proposed rule. Distill supports a visual selector, CSS, XPath and regex if you prefer that level of control.
Can RivalPeek.io log in or click before checking, like Distill macros?
No. RivalPeek.io monitors readable public pages and has no customer-configured login, click or form-filling steps. Distill lists macros on paid plans and local macros through its desktop app.
How is usage counted differently?
Distill counts monthly cloud checks, with one check per 10 seconds of run time. RivalPeek.io counts pages and a scheduled interval per plan, plus a separate allowance of manual checks per rolling 24 hours.
Can I move my Distill monitors?
There is no Distill importer. Bulk import accepts pasted links or a CSV of URLs, and each page still gets a plain-English rule that you review before it runs.
How can I try RivalPeek.io before paying?
New accounts get a 14-day trial on Pro limits with no card required.
14-day free trial on Pro limits. No card required.