Pricing Page Watcher - Competitor Price Change Monitor
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$5.00 / 1,000 pricing page checkeds
Pricing Page Watcher - Competitor Price Change Monitor
Monitor competitor pricing pages for changes. Detects price hikes, new tiers, removed plans, and feature shuffles before your customers notice. Scheduled daily/weekly runs. Optional AI summary of meaningful changes. $0.005 per check. Free preview.
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Competitor Pricing Page Watcher
👁 Pricing Page Watcher - Competitor Price Change Monitor
Drop in competitor pricing page URLs. We snapshot each one, diff against the last snapshot, and use Claude to summarise meaningful changes.
Why this exists
You want to know within hours when a competitor raises their price, adds a new tier, or removes a feature.
Crayon, Klue, and Kompyte all do this and start at $300/mo. You probably check competitor pricing 4 times a year.
This actor charges $0.05 per pricing page checked. Schedule it to run weekly on 20 URLs for $4/month and you have the same insight stream.
What you get back per page
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
pricing_url | URL checked |
changed | Boolean: did content materially change vs prior snapshot? |
is_first_snapshot | True on the very first run for this URL/namespace |
change_summary | One paragraph from Claude on what actually changed |
change_severity | "none" / "minor" / "moderate" / "major" |
prior_snapshot_age_hours | How old the last snapshot was |
diff_lines | Raw added/removed lines for inspection |
current_signals_excerpt | First 600 chars of current cleaned content |
Pricing
$0.05 USD per page checked. Failed fetches (404, blocked, timeout) are not charged.
| Use case | Pages | Frequency | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top 5 competitors weekly | 5 | weekly (4x) | $1.00 |
| Top 20 competitors weekly | 20 | weekly (4x) | $4.00 |
| Quarterly industry sweep | 100 | quarterly (1x) | $5.00 |
Compare to Crayon at $300/mo minimum, Klue at $440/mo entry, Kompyte at $1,200/mo.
How it works
- Fetches the pricing page.
- Strips chrome (nav, footer, scripts), extracts text from price-bearing elements.
- Hashes the cleaned content.
- Compares hash to the prior snapshot stored under (namespace + URL) key.
- If changed: computes line-level diff, optionally sends to Claude Sonnet 4.6 for a structured summary + severity rating.
- Stores new snapshot for next run.
Namespaces
Use the namespace input to run independent watch sessions. Examples:
weekly-monitoringfor your standing weekly cronq2-2026-launchfor a one-off competitive launch sweepclient-acme-corpfor an agency tracking competitors per client
Snapshots are scoped per (namespace, URL) so they do not interfere.
Inputs
- pricing_urls: list of pricing page URLs to check
- namespace: tag for this run (default
"default") - use_ai_summary: on by default, off if you only want raw diff
- max_concurrency: pages checked in parallel
Scheduling
Set the actor to run on a schedule in Apify Console (Settings, then Schedules). Recommended: weekly Monday 9am AEST. Each scheduled run is billed the same as a manual run.
Use cases
- Sales teams: Get pinged when a competitor raises price. Update battle cards within the week.
- Product managers: Track when competitors release new tiers (often signals a feature launch).
- Marketing teams: Time your pricing-comparison content for the week after a competitor's change.
- Founders: Stay ahead of category pricing trends without paying $300/mo.
What this actor does NOT do
- It does not OCR pricing on image-rendered pages. Most modern pricing pages are HTML-text.
- It does not click through pricing toggles (monthly vs annual). It captures the default state.
- It does not detect changes inside JS-rendered SPAs that only show content after user interaction.
Tags
competitive-intelligence pricing monitoring ai claude b2b saas competitor-tracking
Made with Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Emily Ward, Cancel Costs.
Pairs well with
- universal-web-snapshot: Archive the full page state alongside the diff. $0.003 per snapshot.
- seo-competitor-gap: Cross-reference pricing changes with SEO content gap insights. $0.05 per competitor.
- saas-spend-scanner: When a vendor hikes prices, find every site using them for outbound. $0.01 to $0.03.
Integrations
This actor works out of the box with every Apify-supported integration:
- API: call via Apify API or any official SDK (Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET). Returns a clean dataset URL.
- Schedule: set a daily, weekly, or custom cron cadence in Apify Console. Combine with
notificationfor fresh feeds. - Webhooks: wire
ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDEDto Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, or any HTTPS endpoint. - MCP: this actor is discoverable through Apify's hosted MCP server at
mcp.apify.comfor Claude, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and other MCP clients. - n8n / Make / Zapier: native HTTP-Request integration. Trigger the actor on schedule, pipe results to Google Sheets, Airtable, your CRM, or any database.
Try it free
Every Apify user gets $5/month in free platform credits (around 250 events at this actor's per-event price). Run preview mode first to confirm output shape before scaling.
New to Apify? Sign up here to get free credits on signup.
What's New
- 2026-06-03: Metadata, categories, and SEO refreshed. Latest version live on Apify Store.
Last Updated
2026-06-03
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