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Campana sends a weekly competitive-intel digest. PageCrawl alerts you the moment a competitor's page actually changes — with text diffs, AI summaries and Slack / Teams / Discord — from $8/mo on real, public pricing.

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Pricing last verified: 2026-05

At a Glance

PageCrawl
Campana
Alert frequency
Real-time (2 min+)
Weekly digest
Text diff comparison
Element tracking (CSS)
API access
$8/mo
Enterprise only
Starting price
$8/mo
Custom (contact sales)
Free plan
Yes (6 pages)

What is Campana?

Campana is a competitor-intelligence platform that crawls competitor websites, news and job boards and ships a weekly AI-summarised digest grouped by event type. Built for Monday-morning passive consumption — not for the moment a price or term actually changes. As of 2026-05 the public campana.io site has been intermittently unreachable; verify product status before buying.

Where Campana falls short

  • Weekly digest, not real-time alerts

    You hear about a change on Monday, possibly six days late. PageCrawl alerts in minutes.

  • No text diffs or element-level tracking

    Summaries only. You cannot see the literal before-and-after of a sentence or a price.

  • No public pricing, sales-only signup

    You wait on a call before watching a single page. PageCrawl is self-serve from free.

  • Capped at 20 companies on Pro

    If you watch many competitors you outgrow the tier fast.

  • API only on Enterprise

    PageCrawl ships a REST API from $8/mo and an MCP server for AI assistants on every plan.

  • No team review workflow

    No review boards, no role-based access, no shared triage view for changes.

  • No documents, feeds or inbound email

    PageCrawl ingests PDFs, Excel, RSS / Atom / JSON and inbound email as first-class engines.

  • Public site has been unreachable

    campana.io was intermittently down as of 2026-05 — vendor continuity is a real question.

  • No defensible record of what changed

    No signed, timestamped archive an auditor or court would accept as evidence.

Detailed Feature Comparison

FeaturePageCrawlCampana
🔍Monitoring Capabilities
Full-page text monitoring
Multiple tracked elements
Visual/screenshot comparison
JavaScript rendering
PDF/Excel/Word trackingStandard+
Auto page discoveryStandard+
Login-protected pagesStandard+
Reader mode / content-only
🔔Notifications & Integrations
Email
Slack
Discord
Microsoft Teams
Telegram
SMS / phone alerts
Browser push notifications
Google Sheets
RSS feed of changes
Instant alerts on detection
Scheduled reports / digestsWeekly digest
Webhooks
Zapier
n8n
API accessStandard+Enterprise only
MCP Server (AI assistants)
Home Assistant integration
💳Pricing & Plans
Forever-free plan

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Key Advantages Over Campana

Real-Time Alerts, Not Weekly Digests

PageCrawl sends alerts within minutes of detecting changes. Campana primarily delivers weekly email digests.

Precise Text Diffs and Element Tracking

PageCrawl shows exactly what text changed with highlighted diffs and can track specific elements using CSS selectors. Campana provides change summaries without text-level diffs.

Self-Service with Transparent Pricing

PageCrawl starts at $0 (free) with clear pricing tiers. Campana requires contacting sales with no public pricing.

How It Handles Real Workflows

Tracking a competitor pricing change

Your competitor just updated their pricing page and you need details fast.

PageCrawl
  1. Receive an instant alertPageCrawl detects the change within minutes and sends a Slack/Discord/Teams alert.
  2. Review the AI summary"Enterprise plan changed from $99/mo to $149/mo. New AI add-on introduced at $25/mo."
  3. See the exact diffHighlighted text comparison showing every added and removed line.
Your sales team has the exact details within minutes and can adjust positioning immediately.
Campana
  1. Wait for the weekly digestCampana delivers competitive intelligence as a weekly email report.
  2. Review the change summaryThe digest mentions "pricing page updated" with an AI summary.
  3. Use the before/after sliderVisual comparison shows the page changed but not specific text diffs.
You learn about the change days later in your weekly report. Competitors may have already responded.

Why Teams Switch from Campana

  1. 01

    Real-Time Alerts

    PageCrawl sends alerts within minutes of detecting changes. Campana delivers weekly email digests.

  2. 02

    Text Diffs and Element Tracking

    See exactly what text changed with highlighted diffs and track specific elements. Campana provides page-level summaries without text diffs.

  3. 03

    Self-Service, Transparent Pricing

    PageCrawl starts at $0 with clear pricing. Campana requires contacting sales with no public pricing.

  4. 04

    API from Standard Plan

    PageCrawl includes REST API access from $8/mo. Campana reserves API for Enterprise only.

When Campana Might Be the Better Choice

We believe in honest comparisons. Here are scenarios where Campana could be the right fit.

You want a weekly competitive intelligence digest

Campana delivers curated weekly reports summarizing competitor activity across websites, news, and job postings. If you prefer a digest format with AI-categorized events over real-time alerts, Campana is designed for that workflow.

You want a hands-off "what did competitors do this week" view

Campana is built for execs and PMs who want a 5-minute Monday-morning read. PageCrawl is alert-driven; you wire up the URLs and review changes as they come. Different mental models for different reading habits.

For everything else, PageCrawl gives you more features at a lower price.

The Bottom Line

Pick Campana only if you specifically want a passive Monday-morning digest of curated competitor news rather than real-time alerts when something actually changes. For everyone else PageCrawl wins on speed, exact diffs at the URL / element level, document tracking, team workspaces and AI scoring on every plan — at public, self-serve pricing.

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Pricing Comparison

PageCrawlFree
$0
Pages6
Checks220/mo
Frequency60 min
AI10 credits
vs
CampanaPro
Custom
Pages20 companies
FrequencyWeekly digest
PageCrawlStandard
$8/mo
Pages100
Checks15,000/mo
Frequency15 min
AI100 credits
vs
CampanaEnterprise
Custom
PagesMore companies
FrequencyCustom
PageCrawlEnterprise
$30/mo
Pages500
Checks100,000/mo
Frequency5 min
AI1,000 credits
vs
No equivalent tier
PageCrawlUltimate
$99/mo
Pages1,000
Checks100,000/mo
Frequency2 min
AI5,000 credits
vs
No equivalent tier

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Free Migration

Switch from Campana in Under 5 Minutes

No data loss. No downtime. Your URLs transfer in seconds.

1

Sign up for free

Create your PageCrawl account. No credit card or sales call required.

2

Add competitor URLs

Add the specific pages you want to monitor from each competitor.

3

Configure notifications

Connect Slack, Teams, or any of 8+ channels for instant alerts.

4

You're done

PageCrawl starts monitoring immediately with real-time alerts.

10+ Integrations on Every Plan

All notification channels are included from the free plan. No upgrades required.

Campana supports email, Slack, and Teams. API access requires Enterprise. PageCrawl includes all 8+ channels plus API from the Standard plan ($8/mo).

What Our Customers Say

Rated 4.9/5 on G2 by real users.

The Slack integration and AI noise filtering are game changers. Our team only gets alerted for changes that actually matter.

Maria L.Competitive Intelligence Lead

We track 500 competitor pages across 30 brands. PageCrawl costs us $30/mo. The enterprise CI tools we evaluated started at $20,000/year for less coverage.

James R.Product Analyst

AI summaries tell our sales team exactly what competitors changed on their pricing and feature pages. Response time went from days to hours.

Kevin T.Sales Enablement Manager

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