Where Visualping and Distill are stronger
- Faster checks: both offer every 5 minutes at $35, and every 2 minutes on higher plans.
- SMS alerts and, on Visualping, actions for pages behind logins.
- Distill's browser extension can check pages every few seconds while your computer is on.
- Team seats on Visualping Business.
Where ChangeGist is different
- Alerts written for people, not just highlighted text: a short “What happened” box, before-and-after tiles and movement badges like “↓ 7 (−17%)”.
- More pages for the money than Visualping's Personal plans: 100 pages on Pro.
- Slack and Discord alerts on Pro, not just top-tier plans.
- A clear privacy promise: we never sell or share your data or use it to train AI.
A note on data
If you use a monitoring tool to watch competitors, read how it treats your data. According to their terms (November 2026), Visualping may use data from your use of the service for marketing, and Distill may use service data for product development and training. ChangeGist doesn't sell or share customer data and doesn't train AI on it.
Try it side by side
The easiest way to decide is to watch the same few pages in two tools for a week. You can try ChangeGist Starter free for 7 days.