Visualping vs Distill
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.
Visualping and Distill both watch web pages for changes, but they meter usage differently and suit different habits. Visualping counts visits to pages; Distill counts cloud run time and also runs unlimited checks in your own browser. This page sets their published plans side by side. RivalPeek.io is a third option, described briefly at the end.
This comparison is as of November 2026. Visualping details come from Visualping's pricing page, captured on October 29, 2026. Distill details come from Distill's pricing page and features page, captured on November 4, 2026. Check those sources before purchasing; prices and limits change.
Visualping and Distill side by side
| Capability | Visualping | Distill |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans | Personal 1K: $14/month ($120/year), 1,000 checks, 10 pages, every 15 minutes. Business 20K: $140/month ($1,200/year), 20,000 checks, 200 pages, every 2 minutes, 5 users. | Starter: $15/month, 50 monitors, 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. Annual billing: 20% discount. |
| $0 option | 150 checks/month, 5 pages, every 60 minutes, 1 user, no card. A 14-day Business trial needs no card. | 25 monitors (5 in the cloud), cloud checks every 6 hours, 1,000 cloud checks/month, 30 email alerts/month. |
| How usage is counted | One check is one visit to one page; unused checks do not roll over. | One cloud check per 10 seconds of run time; a solved reCAPTCHA v2 counts as 24 extra checks; unused resources expire monthly. Extension checks are unlimited. |
| Detection | Visual and text change detection, AI change summaries and an important-or-not flag on every change, on all plans. | Visual selector; CSS, XPath and regex; single and compound conditions. |
| Before-check actions | Actions to log in, click or type, on all plans. | Macros to log in, click or fill forms on paid plans; local macros in the desktop app. |
| Alerts | Email, webhooks, Telegram and n8n on all plans; SMS from Personal 5K; Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Sheets on Business. | Email and webhook (capped on Free and Starter), push, SMS on paid plans, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams. |
| Apps and API | Chrome extension, REST API, MCP server and bulk creation and editing, on all plans. | Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge extensions; desktop apps; iOS and Android apps; API access on request. |
Which one fits which job
Visualping suits people who want to see a change: screenshot comparison, an AI summary and an importance flag come on every plan, along with an API and MCP server. Its check allowance is small at the entry level, so ten pages checked every 15 minutes would use about 28,800 visits a month (10 pages × 96 checks a day × 30 days), far more than 1,000; work out visits per month before choosing a tier.
Distill suits people who are comfortable with selectors and conditions, or who want checks from their own browser every few seconds without spending cloud checks. Its cloud allowance is measured by run time, so slow pages and pages behind a reCAPTCHA cost more than one check per visit. Change history per monitor is short: 10 to 20 changes on paid plans and none on Free.
Where RivalPeek.io fits
RivalPeek.io is narrower. You paste a public page, describe the change in a sentence, and approve a rule for a price, stock status, wording or new listings. The review shows what it can read now and what it cannot cover before anything runs. It does not compare screenshots, log in, run in your browser or offer a public API. Plans are counted in pages and a fixed interval: 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.
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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
Which is cheaper, Visualping or Distill?
At the entry paid level, Distill Starter is $15/month for 50 monitors, cloud checks every 10 minutes and 30,000 cloud checks a month. Visualping Personal 1K is $14/month for 10 pages, every 15 minutes and 1,000 checks. They count checks differently, so price your own pages and frequency on both.
Can both log in or click before a check?
Yes. Visualping lists Actions to log in, click or type on all plans. Distill lists macros to log in, click or fill forms on paid plans, and local macros through its desktop app.
Which one can check from my own browser?
Distill runs local checks in its browser extension and desktop app, with intervals from 5 seconds, and those checks are not counted against cloud checks. Visualping lists a Chrome extension; its pricing page does not describe local checking.
Which has more alert channels?
Distill lists email, webhooks, push, SMS on paid plans, Slack, Discord and Microsoft Teams. Visualping lists email, webhooks, Telegram and n8n on all plans, SMS from Personal 5K, and Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Sheets on Business.
Where does RivalPeek.io fit?
RivalPeek.io is a third option for readable public pages: you describe the change in one sentence, review the proposed rule and current reading, and get alerts only when it matches. It has no login actions, browser extension or public API.
14-day free trial on Pro limits. No card required.