Need Better Change Monitoring Than UptimeRobot?

UptimeRobot checks whether a site, API or server is up; PageCrawl records what changed on a page and shows the before and after. PageCrawl Standard holds 200 pages for $16 a month with checks as often as every 15 minutes, while UptimeRobot Solo is $10 a month for 10 monitors checked every 60 seconds. PageCrawl scores every change from 0 to 100 and ignores dates, cookie banners and ads, so you are alerted to the changes that matter.

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UptimeRobot's first paid plan, Solo, costs $10/mo for 10 uptime monitors checked every 60 seconds, and 100 monitors cost $41/mo on Team. PageCrawl Standard costs $16/mo for 200 pages and 30,000 checks a month. Both have a free plan: 50 monitors with 5-minute checks on UptimeRobot, 6 pages and 220 checks a month on PageCrawl. Pricing as of November 2026.

Written by Laurynas Sakalauskas, sources reviewed

At a Glance

PageCrawl
UptimeRobot
What it is for
What changed on a page, with the before and after
Whether a site, API or server is up
Entry paid plan
$16/mo - 200 pages, checks as often as every 15 minutes (Standard)
$10/mo - 10 monitors, 60-second uptime checks (Solo)
What a content alert shows
Text diff, AI summary and a 0-100 importance score
Keyword present or missing, or a screenshot comparison
Prices, numbers, feeds and files as tracked values
Every plan, each with its own history
Slack, Teams and Telegram
Every plan, including Free
Solo ($10/mo) and up
Webhooks and Zapier
Every plan, including Free
Team ($41/mo) and up
Fastest check interval
15 minutes on Standard; 2 minutes on Ultimate
60 seconds on Solo; 15 seconds on Scale
Free plan
6 pages, 220 checks a month
50 monitors, 5-minute checks
SMS and voice call alerts
Not offered
Credits included on paid plans, sold to every plan

What is UptimeRobot?

UptimeRobot is an uptime monitoring service launched in 2010 and run by UptimeRobot s. r. o. in Bratislava, Slovakia. It checks websites, APIs, ports, cron jobs and DNS records, alerts on downtime by email, mobile push, SMS and voice call, and provides status pages and incident management. Its free plan holds 50 monitors with 5-minute checks and is open to commercial use. It also has a REST API, a CLI and a hosted MCP server.

Why Teams Switch from UptimeRobot

  1. 01

    See What Changed, Not Just That Something Did

    PageCrawl keeps the before and after of every change with the added and removed text highlighted. UptimeRobot reports a keyword as present or missing, or compares screenshots against a sensitivity threshold.

  2. 02

    200 Pages for $16 a Month

    PageCrawl Standard holds 200 pages for $16 a month and Enterprise 500 pages for $30. UptimeRobot holds 10 monitors on Solo ($10), 100 on Team ($41) and 200 on Scale ($77).

  3. 03

    AI Summaries and a 0-100 Importance Score

    Every PageCrawl plan summarises each change, scores it from 0 to 100 and lets you set your own alert threshold. UptimeRobot's pricing, feature and help pages describe no AI summary or scoring of page changes.

  4. 04

    Every Notification Channel on Every Plan

    Email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, Google Sheets, webhooks and browser push are included on all PageCrawl plans, including Free. UptimeRobot puts Slack, Teams and Telegram on Solo and up, and webhooks and Zapier on Team and up.

  5. 05

    Prices, Stock, Feeds and Files as Tracked Values

    PageCrawl tracks prices, stock, numbers, feeds, JSON fields, links and PDF, Word, Excel and CSV files, each with its own history, and a chart for numeric values. UptimeRobot's price tracking tool watches a highlighted area of the page and emails a visual before and after.

  6. 06

    Noise Removed Before You Are Alerted

    PageCrawl ignores dates, removes cookie banners, blocks ads, hides overlays and excludes page sections you choose. UptimeRobot's documented control for a website change monitor is the watched area and a sensitivity threshold.

  7. 07

    Pages Behind a Login or Built With JavaScript

    PageCrawl saves website logins from Standard and tracks content added by JavaScript on every plan. UptimeRobot documents Basic and Digest authentication, and its keyword monitor reads the raw HTML source only.

  8. 08

    A Review Workflow for Changes

    PageCrawl includes review boards on every plan and, from Standard, scheduled reports of what changed. UptimeRobot's reports cover uptime: a monthly email report and SLA reports by month or quarter.

Detailed Feature Comparison

A comparison of every category where the tools differ. UptimeRobot values marked with a number link to an Internet Archive copy of its source, which preserves the claim as it stood on the archive date shown.

FeaturePageCrawlUptimeRobot
🧠AI & Intelligence
AI change summaries[6]
AI noise filtering[7]
Pattern learning from 👍 / 👎 feedback[7]
Custom AI instructions[7]
Bring your own AI key[8]
AI label automation[9]
🔍Monitoring Capabilities
Live visual selector and action recorderArea selection only, no recorded actions[6]
Full-page text monitoringKeyword presence or screenshot only[2]
Iframe and embedded content monitoring
Multiple tracked elementsOne selected screenshot area[7]
Visual/screenshot comparison[7]
JavaScript renderingScreenshot monitors only[2]
PDF/Excel/Word tracking[7]
Auto page discoveryStandard+; 30-day test on Free[7]
Login-protected pagesStandard+HTTP Basic or Digest auth only[10]
Price and stock tracking with history chartsScreenshot of the price area, no charts[11]
Feed and list tracking (new items)[7]
AI extraction of a value you describe[7]
JSON and API response monitoringJSON field assertions, Solo+[8]
DNS, WHOIS and HTTP status monitoringDNS and domain expiry on Solo+[8]
HTML source monitoringKeyword presence only[12]
Link monitoring (added and removed links)[7]
Custom JavaScript tracked values[7]
SEO tag monitoring[7]
File checksum monitoring[7]
Sitemap monitoring[7]
Server location selection4 regions, Solo+[13]
Check through your own network (Relay)[14]
🎯Filtering & Alert Conditions
Advanced notification conditionsDown-time delay and repeat rules, Solo+[12]
Importance score with your own threshold[7]
Exclude page sections[6]
Ignore dates and times[7]
Remove cookie banners[7]
Block ads[7]
Hide overlays and popups[7]
🔔Notifications & Integrations
Email[12]
SlackSolo+[15]
Discord[15]
Microsoft TeamsSolo+[15]
TelegramSolo+[15]
SMS alertsCredits: included on paid, sold to all[8]
Native mobile app[12]
Native app push alerts
Browser push notifications[16]
Google Sheets[16]
RSS feed of changes[16]
Scheduled reports / digestsStandard+Monthly uptime and SLA reports
WebhooksTeam+[15]
ZapierTeam+[15]
Make[16]
Notion and monday.com sync[16]
n8n[16]
API access[8]
MCP Server (AI assistants)
⚙Advanced Features
Page actions (click, type, etc.)[7]
Review boards (Kanban)[17]
Bulk management[18]
Folders and labelsTags on all plans; groups on paid[9]
Multiple workspacesEnterprise+
Data exportsIncident logs as CSV, plus API[19]
Custom proxies[7]
Browser extension[20]
WACZ web archivingUltimate[7]
Record every check, changed or notUltimate[12]
🏛Company
Founded20182010[5]
FundingBootstrappedPart of itrinity (acquired 2019)[24]
Based inEurope, LithuaniaSlovakia (EU)
Where data is hostedEuropean UnionEU primary, US secondary[21]
Signed data processing agreement (GDPR)Ultimate, annualPublished DPA; countersigned on request[21]
Customer monitoring never used for research or AI training[22]
🏢Enterprise
SSO (SAML 2.0)Enterprise+Enterprise
User access rolesEnterprise+Team+
Premium proxy poolEnterprise+[7]
Dedicated account managerUltimateEnterprise[12]

In the native app rows, a checkmark means both iPhone and Android; a single platform is named (for example iOS only). A cross means we did not find a dedicated option for it on the provider's own pages when we last reviewed them, including where it can only be done by hand on each page. Not documented means the sources left real doubt. Tell us if we got one wrong. A number such as [3] points to the archived provider page that value was read from, listed under Sources at the end of this page. Feature names link to the PageCrawl page or help article for that feature.

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What to Compare with UptimeRobot

A Before and After, Not Up or Down

An UptimeRobot keyword monitor answers one question: is this phrase in the page source. Its help center says that when the condition is true "the monitor status goes to 'down' and triggers a notification". PageCrawl saves the old and new text of the page and shows exactly what was added and removed.

200 Pages for $16, Not 10 Monitors for $10

PageCrawl Standard holds 200 pages for $16 a month. UptimeRobot Solo holds 10 monitors for $10 a month or 50 for $22, Team holds 100 for $41, and 200 monitors need Scale at $77.

Slack and Webhooks on Every Plan

PageCrawl sends alerts to Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Sheets and webhooks on every plan, including Free. UptimeRobot Free includes five integrations (Google Chat, Discord, Pushover, Pushbullet and Splunk), Solo adds Slack, Mattermost, Telegram and Microsoft Teams, and Team adds webhooks, Zapier and PagerDuty.

Pages That Need JavaScript or a Login

UptimeRobot says its keyword monitor "checks the raw HTML source returned by the server, not the fully rendered browser version of the page" and that "if your content only appears after JavaScript loads, the monitor won't detect it". PageCrawl loads the page as a browser does, so content added by JavaScript is tracked.

How It Handles Real Workflows

Knowing when your own site goes down

Your shop's checkout must stay online. You want to hear within a minute or two if it stops responding, by phone if needed, and show customers a status page.

PageCrawl
  1. Add the pagePageCrawl tracks HTTP status and DNS changes on the pages you add.
  2. Set the intervalThe fastest check is every 15 minutes on Standard, 5 on Enterprise and 2 on Ultimate at $99 a month.
  3. Choose channelsEmail, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, webhooks and app push. PageCrawl has no SMS alerts.
You learn about a changed status code on the next check. PageCrawl is built to track content, not availability, and has no status pages or phone alerts.
UptimeRobot
  1. Create an uptime monitorHTTP, keyword, ping, port and cron job monitors are available, with DNS and API monitors and SSL and domain expiry alerts from Solo.
  2. Pick the intervalFree checks 50 monitors every 5 minutes. Solo at $10 a month checks every 60 seconds, Team every 30 and Scale every 15.
  3. Set alertsA failure is confirmed from a second data center before alerting. Email and mobile push are on every plan, and paid plans include SMS and voice call credits.
  4. Publish a status pageOne status page is included on Free, 3 on Solo and 100 on Team.
You know about downtime within a minute on Solo, with SMS or a voice call and a public status page. For uptime, UptimeRobot is the right tool.

When UptimeRobot Might Be the Better Choice

Consider UptimeRobot when these requirements match your workflow.

You need to know when your own site is down

UptimeRobot checks every 60 seconds on Solo, 30 on Team and 15 on Scale, and confirms a failure from a second data center before alerting. PageCrawl's fastest check is every 2 minutes on Ultimate, and it is built to track content, not availability.

You want status pages and incident tools

UptimeRobot includes a status page on Free, 3 on Solo, 100 on Team and unlimited on Scale, with incident comments and root cause details from Team. PageCrawl tracks page changes and does not publish status pages.

You need SMS or voice call alerts

UptimeRobot includes SMS and voice credits on paid plans and sells more to every plan. PageCrawl has no native SMS.

You want 50 free monitors for uptime

UptimeRobot Free holds 50 monitors with 5-minute checks, for personal or commercial use, with no monthly check allowance to manage. PageCrawl Free holds 6 pages and 220 checks a month.

The Bottom Line

Choose PageCrawl when you need to know what changed on a page: the before and after, an AI summary, tracked prices and files, and Slack or webhook alerts on every plan, at $16 a month for 200 pages. Choose UptimeRobot when you need to know whether a site, API or server is up, with checks as fast as every 15 seconds, status pages, and SMS or voice calls.

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What a Similar Budget Buys

Each UptimeRobot plan sits beside the PageCrawl plan closest to it in monthly price. Prices and allowances are shown as each provider publishes them.

PageCrawlFree
$0
Pages6
Checks220/mo
Frequency60 min
AI15 credits
vs
UptimeRobotFree
$0
Pages50 uptime monitors
ChecksUptime checks
Frequency5 min
PageCrawlStandard
$80/yr ($6.67/mo)
Pages100
Checks15,000/mo
Frequency15 min
AI500 credits
vs
UptimeRobotSolo
$10 or $22/mo
Pages10 or 50 uptime monitors
ChecksUptime checks
Frequency60 sec
PageCrawlStandard 200
$16/mo
Pages200
Checks30,000/mo
Frequency15 min
AI1,000 credits
vs
No UptimeRobot plan near this price
PageCrawlEnterprise
$30/mo
Pages500
Checks100,000/mo
Frequency5 min
AI2,500 credits
vs
UptimeRobotTeam
$41/mo
Pages100 uptime monitors
ChecksUptime checks
Frequency30 sec
PageCrawlUltimate
$99/mo
Pages1,000
Checks100,000/mo
Frequency2 min
AI10,000 credits
vs
UptimeRobotScale
$77 or $179/mo
Pages200 or 500 uptime monitors
ChecksUptime checks
Frequency15 sec
No monthly price to compare
vs
UptimeRobotEnterprise
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PagesCustom uptime monitors
ChecksCustom
FrequencyCustom
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10+ Integrations on Every Plan

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

SlackSlackDiscordDiscordMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft TeamsTelegramTelegramGoogle SheetsGoogle SheetsZapierZapiern8nn8nMake.comMake.comMCP ServerMCP Server
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Email, Webhooks, API & more

UptimeRobot includes email and mobile push on every plan and five integrations on Free; Slack, Teams and Telegram start on Solo ($10/mo), and webhooks, Zapier and PagerDuty on Team ($41/mo). PageCrawl includes Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Sheets, webhooks, API and MCP on every plan.

Why teams choose PageCrawl

AI summaries, change scoring, and every alert channel, included on every plan.

AI change summaries on every plan. Every alert includes a plain-English summary of what changed, not just a red/green diff, on Free and up.

You decide what counts as important. PageCrawl scores every change 0-100 and lets you set the threshold, instead of a fixed important / not-important flag.

All alert channels included. Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Sheets and webhooks work on every plan, including Free.

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UptimeRobot details compiled from public sources, reviewed as of .

Capture dates are shown on the source links. Historical sources do not establish current prices or availability. Undocumented details require confirmation with the provider.

Mobile app and phone alert details checked on .

  1. UptimeRobot official source (archived 2026-11-10)
  2. UptimeRobot official source (archived 2026-11-04)
  3. UptimeRobot mobile app push setup (archived official source)
  4. UptimeRobot official source (archived 2026-11-11)
  5. UptimeRobot blog post: a summary of beginning to now (archived 2026-08-29)
  6. UptimeRobot page: website change detection tool (archived 2026-11-04)
  7. UptimeRobot help article: understanding uptimerobot monitor types a guide to essential services (archived 2026-04-10)
  8. UptimeRobot page: pricing.md (archived 2026-11-05)
  9. UptimeRobot help article: how to group monitors in uptimerobot organize your monitors easily (archived 2026-04-10)
  10. UptimeRobot help article: uptimerobot advanced settings customize your monitor configuration (archived 2026-08-08)
  11. UptimeRobot page: price tracking (archived 2026-08-08)
  12. UptimeRobot page: pricing (archived 2026-11-12)
  13. UptimeRobot help article: understanding uptimerobot locations and multi location feature (archived 2026-04-10)
  14. UptimeRobot page: advanced features (archived 2026-10-05)
  15. UptimeRobot help article: uptimerobot integrations basic information overview (archived 2026-08-08)
  16. UptimeRobot page: integrations (archived 2026-10-05)
  17. UptimeRobot page: incident management (archived 2026-11-04)
  18. UptimeRobot help article: how to use bulk monitor actions in uptimerobot (archived 2026-04-10)
  19. UptimeRobot blog post: new feature exporting logs (archived 2025-07-20)
  20. UptimeRobot page: mobile app (archived 2026-11-04)
  21. UptimeRobot page: dpa (archived 2026-10-14)
  22. UptimeRobot page: privacy (archived 2026-11-12)
  23. UptimeRobot help article: who should use uptimerobot s free plan (archived 2026-08-08)
  24. UptimeRobot blog post: uptimerobot 2020 update (archived 2026-06-17)

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