SiteGauge vs PageCrawl

It depends on what you weigh. PageCrawl may carry a lower headline price, while SiteGauge bundles AI change categorisation and unlimited free viewer seats into its paid plans, and adds tamper-evident audit evidence on Business and Enterprise. If you would otherwise pay per seat or bolt on compliance tooling, SiteGauge is often better value despite a higher sticker price. The pricing tables above break down each tier.

We have not run a head-to-head test, so we will not claim one. SiteGauge checks with a four-stage pipeline, can capture desktop and mobile views, and can switch to a residential browser when a plain fetch is blocked, which reaches many bot-protected pages but not every one. For how PageCrawl handles this, see the feature table and scorecard above, taken from our research on PageCrawl's own pages. The surest test is to point both tools at the same pages for a few weeks.

Both are AI website-change monitoring tools that detect content, visual, and competitor changes and summarise them in plain language. PageCrawl differentiates with a purpose-built MCP server for AI agents, file/feed monitoring, native phone apps, scheduled summary reports and a very broad native integration list; SiteGauge differentiates with structured pricing/messaging/SEO change categorisation, desktop and mobile captures side by side, unlimited free viewer seats, and a tamper-evident signed audit-evidence export (Business and Enterprise plans).

It is close. PageCrawl wins on integration breadth and agent-driven (MCP) workflows and monitoring competitor PDFs and feeds, while SiteGauge wins on structured AI categorisation of pricing, messaging, product, and SEO changes plus before/after visual diffs. Choose PageCrawl for breadth and automation, SiteGauge for structured analysis and reporting.

SiteGauge, narrowly. It diffs the title, meta description, canonical, robots directives and schema types on every monitor by default, can capture desktop and mobile side by side, and bundles 21 free SEO and site-monitoring tools. PageCrawl also tracks SEO tags, through an opt-in SEO Tags element available on every plan including Free, and can emulate a phone per monitor, so SEO teams that set it up get similar metadata coverage.

Yes. PageCrawl publishes a first-class MCP server (expanded to around 34 tools over OAuth as of September 2026: 15 read, 18 create and organise, 1 action) that works with Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT, letting AI agents create monitors, check changes, and review diffs conversationally. Every tool works on every plan, including Free, where on-demand checks are capped at 10 a day, with your plan's monitor limit and a 30 requests per minute rate limit still applying. SiteGauge also ships its own MCP server with five tools, so Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can list and create monitors and read change history; it cannot edit monitors or trigger checks, so PageCrawl's is more mature and exposes far more tools.

PageCrawl has a Free Forever plan (6 pages, 220 checks/mo) and three paid tiers: Standard from $8/mo billed monthly or $80/yr for 100 pages (the default 200-page configuration is $160/yr), Enterprise $30/mo or $300/yr (up to 500 pages), and Ultimate $99/mo or $999/yr (up to 1,000 pages). The pricing page shows the annual-billed monthly equivalents by default. Residential proxies are included on Enterprise and Ultimate, and a Web Unblocker for the hardest sites is a pay-as-you-go $10/GB add-on; confirm current numbers on the live pricing page.

SiteGauge has a Free plan and paid tiers at $24 (Standard), $99 (Pro), and $199 (Business), plus custom Enterprise, on a checks-based model with a predictable hard cap (monitors pause at your allowance, no overage bills). PageCrawl's headline prices are lower, so PageCrawl is generally cheaper at the entry level, while SiteGauge positions higher with features like signed audit evidence and unlimited free viewer seats.

Yes. PageCrawl produces 1-3 sentence plain-language AI summaries, scores each change 0-100 by importance, learns from dismissed changes to filter noise, and offers 8 reporting styles plus AI label automation. SiteGauge also uses AI summaries but adds explicit change categorisation into pricing, messaging, product, and SEO buckets.

Yes. PageCrawl can track PDF, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files, including from Google Drive and SharePoint, as well as RSS, Atom, and sitemap feeds and password-protected pages. SiteGauge natively monitors PDF, Word, and Excel document text too, but PageCrawl covers more sources: files pulled from Google Drive and SharePoint, PowerPoint, password-protected pages, and RSS/Atom/sitemap feeds as monitorable sources.

It is a tie that comes down to plan and format. SiteGauge offers a tamper-evident audit-evidence export on its Business ($199/mo) and Enterprise plans, using Ed25519 signing (plus an RFC-3161 trusted timestamp when the timestamp authority is reachable), delivered as a downloadable ZIP whose signature anyone can check on a public verification page. PageCrawl also offers signed evidence: on its Ultimate plan ($99/mo, or $999/yr) it produces WACZ archives with an embedded signature, RFC 3161 and OpenTimestamps proofs, and a public verification link, with EU-qualified eIDAS timestamps on Custom plans. Both are credible for legal or regulatory records; compare which plan you need and whether you want PageCrawl's WACZ web-archive format or SiteGauge's signed ZIP.

Yes. PageCrawl has native Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, email, native Zapier (2000+ apps), n8n, webhooks, RSS feeds, Google Sheets, and Dropbox integrations. SiteGauge also supports Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, SMS, Google Sheets and webhooks natively, connects Zapier and n8n via webhooks today (native apps pending directory listing), and publishes an RSS change feed. PageCrawl still has more here: published Zapier and n8n apps, Make, Notion, Home Assistant and Dropbox, one-approval Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors, and iOS and Android apps with push alerts.

It depends on priorities. PageCrawl suits agencies that want low cost, multiple workspaces, broad native integrations, and file/feed coverage, while SiteGauge suits agencies that want to give every client a free read-only viewer seat and, on Business and Enterprise, deliver signed, verifiable change evidence. Many agencies could justify either, so evaluate against client-seat needs and evidence requirements.

Yes. When a change is significant, SiteGauge reads it with AI and produces a plain-English summary that says what changed, categorises it (pricing, messaging, product or SEO), and scores how important it is, alongside before/after visual and text diffs. Routine, low-importance edits are still logged, without spending an AI pass on them. This is its core differentiator versus tools that only show a raw diff.

Yes. Point SiteGauge at any pricing page and it detects changes to prices, plan structure, and CTA copy, then sends an alert with an AI summary explaining exactly what shifted. It captures before/after screenshots so you can see the change visually.

Yes. SiteGauge has a free plan ($0) that monitors up to 5 pages with daily checks, AI change summaries, and email alerts plus an RSS change feed, no credit card required. Paid plans add more monitors, faster cadence, and team integrations.

Often. When an ordinary fetch is blocked, SiteGauge can switch to a residential browser, which reaches many bot-protected pages behind Cloudflare or Akamai. It is not guaranteed: some heavily protected sites still block capture, and these renders use a monthly allowance on each self-serve plan. Most monitors never need this, so it is reserved for the pages that do.

Yes, on the Business and Enterprise plans. SiteGauge exports signed, tamper-evident evidence of a change, using an Ed25519 signature (with an RFC-3161 trusted timestamp attached when the timestamp authority is reachable), packaged as a downloadable bundle with a public verification page that anyone can check against our published key. Most monitoring tools do not offer independently verifiable evidence, which makes SiteGauge a fit for compliance and legal teams.

Email alerts and an RSS change feed are on every plan, including Free. Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, webhooks, SMS and Google Sheets are available on Standard and above. You can also connect Zapier (via webhooks today; native app pending directory listing) and n8n (via webhooks) to reach thousands of other apps, and drive everything from your AI assistant through the built-in MCP server.

Yes. SiteGauge ships an MCP server, so AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can connect to your account, create monitors, read change history and pull exactly what changed on a page, without leaving your assistant. You connect once by signing in, with no API key to copy and paste.

Yes. SiteGauge importance-scores every change, and you can set an alert filter so you only hear about the changes that matter, such as a competitor's price or pricing-page edit, while routine tweaks are still logged quietly. It cuts alert noise sharply without hiding anything.

Paid plans include a set number of editors plus unlimited free read-only viewers, so you can share monitoring across a whole team or with clients without paying per seat for people who only need to view results.

Yes. Unlimited free viewers on every paid plan, tag-scoped digests and up to 3 workspaces on Pro (10 on Business), and competitor monitoring make SiteGauge well suited to agencies managing monitoring across many clients and reporting results back to them.