Official pricing and specifications checked September 8, 2026. This is not a benchmark of competitors’ capture speed or success rates. Kiroku operates this website.
- Compare the monthly check allowance as well as the shortest interval.
- Distinguish local checks on your device from cloud monitoring.
- For terms and pricing, inspect both saved versions and the diff.
- Kiroku checks about every six hours, so it is not suited to minute-by-minute stock or booking alerts.
Choose a monitoring tool by how quickly you need an alert, how many pages you watch, and whether you need the earlier wording afterward. A free alert allowance may be enough; terms and pricing reviews also need useful saved versions and clear capture limits.
If you keep reopening a pricing or terms page to look for edits, compare website update alerts and content change detection tools. An uptime service answers a different question: whether the site is reachable.
Start with what you need to do after an alert. Knowing that a page changed may be enough. If you need to read its previous wording, compare the saved versions, history limits and export options as well.
Decide what you need after the alert
An update alert and a readable record of the earlier page solve different parts of the job.
| Your task | What to check |
|---|---|
| Notice a new announcement | Check frequency, notification channel and monthly allowance |
| Review a pricing change | Plan limits and conditions as well as the price |
| Revisit earlier terms | Saved formats, history retention and downloadable files |
| Detect an outage | A dedicated uptime monitoring service |
Compare starting prices and operating conditions
This comparison uses official product information, not a head-to-head reliability benchmark. Check current prices and allowances on the provider’s site before purchasing.
| Option | Starting price | How to assess it |
|---|---|---|
| Manual saves | Depends on your saving tool | Enough for occasional reviews of a few pages; you perform the checks and comparisons |
| Distill | Free; Starter $15/month | Local and cloud monitoring. Free includes 25 monitors, with 5 in the cloud. Check cloud frequency, check allowance and history limits |
| Visualping | Free; Personal 1K $14/month | Visual and text change detection. Free includes 5 pages and 150 monthly checks. Match the interval to the monthly allowance |
| Kiroku Pro | $12/month | Public URLs checked about every six hours; saved HTML, screenshots, diffs, private archives and evidence-pack exports. Up to 50 active URL monitors per account |
If you only need an update alert for a few pages, try a free monitoring allowance. Kiroku’s free Guest service is for individual public saves; ongoing monitoring requires Pro.
Keep the previous wording when a page changes
Pro checks public URLs about every six hours. Review saved versions and text differences, and keep your archive records private when needed.
- Inspect the first saved version after setup
- Review detected changes and any capture errors
- Private archives, saved versions and evidence-pack exports
A short interval does not mean unlimited checks
Ten pages checked every six hours for 30 days require 10 × 4 × 30 = 1,200 checks. A service may let you select a short interval without including enough monthly checks to run every page at that interval.
For local monitoring, check whether your device must stay on. Cloud monitoring can keep running independently, but login screens and access restrictions can produce a different result from the page you see yourself.
Inspect the versions a change leaves behind
In a controlled Kiroku example, we changed a fictional price from $40 to $55 and its saved-page allowance from 100 to 50. We captured HTML and screenshots in a browser. The existing comparison code identified the two edited lines as one changed block.
A second example changes a cancellation deadline from 30 to 45 days before renewal. It produces a one-line difference. Comparing an unchanged version with itself did not qualify for an alert.
These are local capture and comparison results. They do not test production scheduling, email delivery or external timestamping. The saved HTML, screenshots, email text preview and test results are available to inspect.
Start with one representative URL
Check support first if the page needs a login or special access.
Confirm that the wording and prices are present. Registering a URL does not prove that the content was captured.
Compare the saved versions. A failed request alone is not proof that a publisher deleted a page.
Account for page count, history, alerts, storage and what happens when you cancel.
Summary
Choose a monitoring tool by how quickly you need an alert, how many pages you watch, and whether you need the earlier wording afterward. A free alert allowance may be enough; terms and pricing reviews also need useful saved versions and clear capture limits.
FAQ
Can I get website update alerts for free?
Some services offer free monitoring allowances. Compare check counts, alert limits and history as well as page counts. Kiroku’s ongoing monitoring is included in its paid Pro plan.
Does Kiroku send instant alerts?
No. URL checks run about every six hours. A change that appears and disappears between checks can be missed.
Can monitoring recover a page that was already deleted?
Monitoring preserves versions captured from now on. It cannot recover content removed before the first save; searching existing archives is a separate task.
Sources
- Distill — official pricing and limits (checked 2026-09-08)https://distill.io/pricing/
- Visualping — official pricing and limits (checked 2026-09-08)https://visualping.io/pricing
- Kiroku Pro — price and subscription conditionshttps://kiroku.today/en/features
- Kiroku — captured examples and test scopehttps://kiroku.today/en/monitoring#samples
Inspect a record before choosing a monitoring plan
See the captured examples and decide whether six-hour checks and saved versions fit the pages you need to follow.
Guest saves are free and public. Pro adds private management, ongoing monitoring and evidence-pack exports.