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Campana delivers weekly competitive intelligence digests. PageCrawl monitors pages in real-time with text diffs, element tracking, AI summaries, and 8+ notification channels.
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Pricing last verified: 2026-05
At a Glance
What is Campana?
Campana is a competitive intelligence platform focused on tracking competitor activity across websites, news, and job postings. It uses AI to summarize changes and categorize competitor events into types like Product, Funding, People, and Partnerships. Campana auto-discovers key pages from competitor sitemaps and delivers weekly digest emails. Pricing requires contacting sales (no public tiers). The Pro plan tracks up to 20 companies with weekly digests and 6-month data retention. Note: as of 2026-05 the public campana.io site has been intermittently unreachable; verify current product status before making a buying decision.
Key Limitations
- Weekly digest delivery, not real-time alerts
- No text diffs or element-level tracking
- No public pricing, requires contacting sales
- No free plan available
- API only on Enterprise plan
- Limited to 20 companies on Pro plan
- Public site (campana.io) was intermittently unreachable as of 2026-05
Detailed Feature Comparison
| Feature | PageCrawl | Campana |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Intelligence | ||
| AI change summaries | All plans | |
| AI noise filtering (0-100 score) | All plans | |
| Pattern learning from feedback | All plans | |
| Custom AI instructions | All plans | |
| Bring your own AI key (unlimited) | All plans | |
| Monitoring Capabilities | ||
| Full-page text monitoring | ||
| Multiple tracked elements | ||
| Visual/screenshot comparison | ||
| JavaScript rendering | ||
| PDF/Excel/Word tracking | Standard+ | |
| Auto page discovery | Standard+ | |
| Login-protected pages | Standard+ | |
| Reader mode / content-only | ||
| Notifications & Integrations | ||
| Slack | ||
| Discord | ||
| Microsoft Teams | ||
| Telegram | ||
| SMS / phone alerts | ||
| Browser push notifications | ||
| Google Sheets | ||
| RSS feed of changes | ||
| Instant alerts on detection | ||
| Scheduled reports / digests | Weekly digest | |
| Webhooks | ||
| Zapier | ||
| n8n | ||
| API access | Standard+ | Enterprise only |
| MCP Server (AI assistants) | ||
| Advanced Features | ||
| Page actions (click, type, etc.) | ||
| Visual macro recorder | ||
| Review boards (Kanban) | Standard+ | |
| Bulk management | Standard+ | |
| Data exports | Standard+ | |
| Custom proxies | Standard+ | |
| Browser extension | ||
| Native mobile app | PWA | |
| Embeddable alert widget | ||
| WACZ web archiving | Ultimate | |
| Pricing & Plans | ||
| Forever-free plan | ||
| Enterprise | ||
| SSO (SAML 2.0) | Enterprise+ | |
| User access roles | Enterprise+ | Enterprise only |
| Premium proxy pool | Enterprise+ | |
| Dedicated account manager | Ultimate | |
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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
See how PageCrawl compares to Campana in common monitoring scenarios.
Tracking a competitor pricing change
Your competitor just updated their pricing page and you need details fast.
- Receive an instant alertPageCrawl detects the change within minutes and sends a Slack/Discord/Teams alert.
- Review the AI summary"Enterprise plan changed from $99/mo to $149/mo. New AI add-on introduced at $25/mo."
- See the exact diffHighlighted text comparison showing every added and removed line.
- Wait for the weekly digestCampana delivers competitive intelligence as a weekly email report.
- Review the change summaryThe digest mentions "pricing page updated" with an AI summary.
- Use the before/after sliderVisual comparison shows the page changed but not specific text diffs.
Monitoring specific page elements
You want to track specific product features or pricing tiers across competitors.
- Use the element pickerClick on the pricing table, feature list, or any element to track it individually.
- Set up multiple tracked elementsTrack price, feature list, and CTA text as separate monitors on the same page.
- Get targeted alertsOnly be notified when the specific elements you care about change.
- Add the companyCampana monitors at the company level, not the element level.
- Let Campana auto-discover pagesCampana finds key pages from the sitemap automatically.
- No element-level trackingChanges are detected at the page level only.
Why Teams Switch from Campana
Real-Time Alerts
PageCrawl sends alerts within minutes of detecting changes. Campana delivers weekly email digests.
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.
Self-Service, Transparent Pricing
PageCrawl starts at $0 with clear pricing. Campana requires contacting sales with no public pricing.
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.
Where Campana Genuinely Outperforms PageCrawl
No tool wins on every dimension. These are the areas where Campana is the stronger choice today, so you can make an informed decision rather than a marketed one.
AI-triaged news feed across many sources
Campana pulls from many news sources, AI-ranks by relevance, and summarises weekly. PageCrawl does not do news aggregation — we only watch URLs you explicitly hand us. If you want a curated competitor news feed without setting up monitors, Campana ships that.
Research chatbot over your tracked competitors
Campana exposes a chatbot you can ask questions about your tracked competitors' history, with AI-generated answers from the corpus. PageCrawl has no chat layer over change history.
Pre-categorised competitor activity (pricing/launches/deals)
Campana auto-categorises competitor changes into structured event types (pricing change, product launch, deal won). PageCrawl detects raw element changes; categorisation is not automatic.
If any of these are deal-breakers for your workflow, Campana may be the better fit. Otherwise, PageCrawl covers the rest at a lower price.
Most CI buyers in this price band choose PageCrawl: real-time alerts (not weekly digests), exact text/visual diffs at the URL/element level, document tracking, screenshots, team workspaces, and AI scoring on every plan. Campana is the right pick only if you specifically want a passive Monday-morning digest of curated competitor news rather than alerts when something actually changes — and even then, many teams add PageCrawl for the URLs they care about most.
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10+ Integrations on Every Plan
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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.”
“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.”
“AI summaries tell our sales team exactly what competitors changed on their pricing and feature pages. Response time went from days to hours.”
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