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WebCrawler API vs ChangeGist

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WebCrawler API compared with ChangeGist
DetailWebCrawler API logo WebCrawler APIChangeGist logo ChangeGist
What it doesWeb crawling and data extraction API for AI agents Website change monitoring that sends plain-English alerts
StageStartup Not given
Founded2024 Not given
Based inNL GB
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingPay as you go: from $0.002 per page (LLM-cleaned markdown: $0.006 per page). Starter: $29/month from $0.002 per page (LLM-cleaned markdown: $0.006 per page). Professional: $99/month from $0.0015 per page (LLM-cleaned markdown: $0.0055 per page, save 25%). Business: $499/month from $0.001 per page (L Free trial: 3 days, up to 5 pages, checked every hour. Starter: €22/month for 25 pages, checked every 6 hours. Pro: €55/month for 100 pages, checked every 15 minutes. Business: €169/month for 500 pages, checked every 5 minutes on up to 100 pages. Billed monthly, cancel any time. Prices shown in Euro
Key features
  • Automatic JavaScript rendering
  • CAPTCHA solving
  • Automatic proxy routing
  • Smart caching with 0.9 second response times
  • Change detection feeds
  • Clean markdown extraction
  • Removes navigation, ads, and boilerplate content
  • Anti-bot bypass
  • Plain-English change summaries instead of raw diffs
  • Custom alerts based on your criteria
  • Noise filtering to skip timestamps and view counters
  • Monitor specific sections of a page
  • JavaScript-enabled browser for modern websites
  • Full change history with exact before and after wording
  • Price check and competitor undercut alerts
  • Price history charts and weekly email summary
  • Slack, Discord and webhook alerts
  • Variable check frequency by plan
What makes it different
  • Pay only for successful requests with no subscription required
  • Content cleaned for direct AI prompt use without extra processing
  • Change detection prevents wasted tokens and duplicate fetches
  • Smart caching delivers cached pages up to 10 times faster
  • Handles all technical infrastructure automatically
  • Reads and summarizes changes in plain English instead of showing raw code diffs
  • Intelligent noise filtering that learns what matters
  • Privacy by design: data never sold, shared or used for AI training
  • Price comparison and undercut alerts included in all plans
  • Set custom criteria to receive only alerts that match what you care about
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)31 −13 (down) since last check1 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)90
Citation Flow (Majestic)240
Referring domains (Majestic)2110

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