OnWebChange vs Pingdom
OnWebChange
onwebchange.com
Pingdom
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| Figure | OnWebChange | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €0.89/mo | $16.50/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 5 |
| Spec score · Website Monitoring Software | 9.0 (#3) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Alerts | Alerts are available through email, mobile notifications and webhooks; the pricing page names Pushover as a third-party mobile notification service for Android and iOS. | Incident alerts can be sent by SMS, email, push notification, or webhook, and Pingdom performs a second check before alerting to filter false positives. |
| Documentation | The help center contains video tutorials, step-by-step guides, troubleshooting, regional tracking, usage-limit explanations and an importer guide. | The vendor links to API documentation, tutorials, a knowledge base, FAQs, guided tours and support-ticket submission. |
| Integrations | TechRadar found no third-party integrations, while native alerts use email, Pushover and callbacks. | Native alert integrations named by Pingdom include Slack, VictorOps, Opsgenie and PagerDuty. |
| Intended users | The terms say the service is intended for all good people and law-abiding organizations. | Pingdom describes use cases for digital marketers, web hosting providers, and web developers. |
| Support | The site provides documentation and video tutorials, and lists email and member support enquiries as contact options. | The site links to customer support and support tickets and lists a sales contact phone number. |
| What it does | OnWebChange monitors public webpages and alerts users when selected content changes. | Pingdom provides synthetic and real-user monitoring for website and web-application uptime, speed, transactions and visitor experience. |
Plans
OnWebChange
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Lite€0.89 a month
- Lite€0.89 a month
- Standard€2.79 a month
- Standard€2.79 a month
- Turbo-50€4.99 a month
- Turbo-50€4.99 a month
- Turbo-100€8.99 a month
- Turbo-100€8.99 a month
Pingdom
- Real User Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Synthetic Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Real User Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- Synthetic Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
OnWebChange
OnWebChange monitors webpages and sends alerts when it detects changes. Users can track particular page elements, including prices, headlines and listings, and monitor content on sites that load dynamically with JavaScript. It also checks PDFs, images, text files and other online documents, and can reach login-protected pages using custom headers. Notifications are available by email, mobile notification and webhook; Pushover is named as a third-party mobile notification service for Android and iOS. Checks can run as often as every five minutes. The service can translate tracked content and summarize updates, while groups, labels, pause and resume controls, and CSV import and export help manage trackers. Access is listed for Android, iOS, web and API. The Free plan is free and includes three page trackers with basic daily monitoring. Lite is €0.89 a month, and Standard is €2.79 a month with unlimited trackers. Documentation, video tutorials, email and member support enquiries are available.