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title: "Peekivo vs Visualping: Differences and When to Choose Each"
description: "Visualping and Peekivo compared from Visualping's own pages: plans, free tier, check intervals and extension, plus when Visualping is the better choice."
canonical_url: https://peekivo.com/en/compare/visualping
language: en
last_updated: 2026-10-01
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# Peekivo and Visualping: how they differ

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.

> This describes how Peekivo is built. It has not been tested side by side with Visualping, so nothing here says either tool is faster or more accurate.

## 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.

## Related pages

- [All comparisons](https://peekivo.com/en/compare)
- [Peekivo and Distill](https://peekivo.com/en/compare/distill)
- [Peekivo and PageCrawl](https://peekivo.com/en/compare/pagecrawl)
- [Google Alerts vs watching a page](https://peekivo.com/en/compare/google-alerts)
- [Why didn't my website monitor alert me?](https://peekivo.com/en/guides/why-didnt-my-website-monitor-alert-me)
- [Proposed Peekivo plans](https://peekivo.com/en/pricing)
- [About Peekivo](https://peekivo.com/en/about)

## Sources

- [Visualping: Plans and Pricing](https://visualping.io/pricing), fetched 2026-10-01
- [Visualping homepage](https://visualping.io/), fetched 2026-10-01