Peekivo and Visualping: how they differ

Last reviewed 1 October 2026

Visualping is the better choice if you want an established change monitor you can use today, with a free plan, a Chrome extension and checks as often as every 2 minutes on higher plans. Peekivo is in early access with a waitlist; it is built around one approval step that shows the page, the rule and an earlier example before anything is watched.

What Visualping documents

Visualping facts from its own website, fetched 1 October 2026

Free plan	$0 a month for 5 pages and 150 checks a month, with every 60 minutes as the shortest interval.
Paid plans	From Personal 1K at $14 a month (10 pages, 1,000 checks, every 15 minutes) up to Business 50K at $350 a month (500 pages, 50,000 checks).
Shortest check interval	Every 2 minutes on Personal 10K and the Business plans.
Included on every plan	Visual, text and element change detection, AI change summaries and an important-or-not flag on every change.
API and MCP	REST API and MCP server access come with every plan, including the free one.
Browser extension	A Chrome extension that can record actions in your browser, listed on the free, Personal and Business plans.
Business trial	14 days of Business features with no card on file; monitoring stops when the trial ends unless you pick a plan.

Side by side

Visualping cells repeat what Visualping's website says. Peekivo cells describe what you can use today, and Peekivo is not open for sign-up yet.

Visualping and Peekivo, documented facts
	Visualping (from its website)	Peekivo today
Can you start using it today?	Yes, with a free plan	not yet
Free plan	Yes: 5 pages, 150 checks a month	no
Shortest check interval	Every 2 minutes on higher plans	not yet
Browser extension	Chrome extension on every plan family	not yet
Log in, click or type before each check	Listed as Actions on every plan family	not yet
Approve the page, rule and an earlier example before watching	not measured yet	not yet

Where Peekivo is different

You describe what you want to hear about in your own words, and Peekivo answers with one approval card: the page, the rule and an earlier example of a match. Nothing is watched until you approve it.
Each watch keeps its last attempt and its last successful read apart, so a page that could not be read never looks like a page that did not change.
An alert shows the page before and after the change, next to the rule that matched.
Peekivo reads public pages only and does not get around logins, CAPTCHAs or bot walls. When a read is blocked, the watch says so.
The proposed plans do not charge automatically for extra usage. Plan names, limits and prices are proposals until launch.

Questions people ask about Visualping

How much does Visualping cost?

Visualping's pricing page lists a free plan at $0, Personal plans from $14 to $70 a month, Business plans from $140 to $350 a month and custom Solutions quotes (accessed 1 October 2026). Annual billing is cheaper on the paid plans.

Is Visualping free?

It has a free plan: 5 pages and 150 checks a month, with every 60 minutes as the shortest interval, according to its pricing page (accessed 1 October 2026).

How does Visualping work?

Its homepage describes entering a page, clicking Go to take a snapshot, choosing how often to check and where to send alerts, then receiving an alert with a highlighted screenshot whenever a change is detected (accessed 1 October 2026).

What are some alternatives to Visualping?

Other website change monitors include Distill, PageCrawl, ChangeTower and the open-source changedetection.io. Each has its own comparison page below, with facts from that tool's own website.

Switching from Visualping

Peekivo cannot import watches from Visualping yet. If you join the waitlist, you would set up each page again once Peekivo opens.

Method and limits

Every Visualping fact on this page comes from Visualping's own website, fetched on 1 October 2026. Plans and prices change, so check its pricing page before you decide. A cell marked not measured yet means we have not checked it, not that Visualping lacks it.

Sources

Visualping: Plans and Pricing, fetched 2026-10-01
Visualping homepage, fetched 2026-10-01

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