Is Hexowatch free? Two watches, 30 checks, then a plan
The free plan is a trial: daily checks on 2 watches until 30 checks run out. Here is what comes next.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom · Editorial team
· 3 min read
Is Hexowatch free? Partly. There is a free plan with no card required, but it is small: 2 watches, checked once a day, with 30 checks for the life of the account and a one-time balance of 500 tokens. When those run out, you need a paid plan to keep watching.
That makes the free plan a trial more than a tier. Here is what you get, what comes after, and a cheaper way to keep going.
What the free plan includes
- 2 watches. Active at the same time, on one user account.
- Daily checks. Faster intervals are on paid plans.
- 30 lifetime checks. They do not renew each month. Two watches checked daily use them up in about two weeks.
- 500 tokens, once. Hexowatch charges tokens for each check and for AI work, and the free balance does not refill.
- Email alerts. Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram and webhooks are on the Plus plan and up.
What it costs after that
| Plan | Per month | Per month, billed yearly | Watches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $15 | $10.50 | 25 |
| Plus | $55 | $38.50 | 50 |
| Scale | $190 | $133 | 400 |
Prices from Hexowatch's pricing catalog, checked October 2026. AI change analysis and team integrations start at Plus.
A cheaper way to keep going
If you liked the idea of getting a plain-language alert when a page changes, AyeWatch does that from $9 a month. It also starts with a free preview: three monitoring runs across up to three topics, no card.
What makes it worth a look:
- You write the rule. "Tell me when this concert adds a new date" is the whole setup.
- Alerts explain themselves. Each one is a short summary with a link to the source.
- It looks past one page. Describe a topic and AyeWatch searches news, blogs, forums and more than a billion sources. Or follow an account on X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok.
- It lives on your phone. Web, iOS and Android apps, with push alerts on every plan.
Pro, at $9 a month, checks hourly and adds email, Slack, Discord and webhooks. Most checks cost one credit, so the faster you check, the more of your allowance you use.
Free plans next to each other
| Hexowatch Free | AyeWatch Free Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| What you can set up | 2 watches | Up to 3 topics |
| How long it lasts | 30 checks in total | 3 monitoring runs in total |
| Check pace | Daily | Daily or slower |
| Alerts | Push and in-app feed | |
| Card needed | No | No |
Neither free option is meant to last. Both are there so you can see a real alert before paying. The difference shows up on the first paid plan: Hexowatch Personal at $15 keeps alerts on email, while AyeWatch Pro at $9 adds Slack, Discord, email and webhooks.
Other free routes
If you need something that stays free month after month, Visualping keeps 5 pages and 150 checks a month on its free plan, and changedetection.io is free software you can run on your own computer or server. Both only watch the pages you add.
When Hexowatch is the better buy
If you need uptime checks, domain WHOIS records or a site's tech stack, Hexowatch does those and AyeWatch does not. The free plan is a fine way to test them.
Before you pick
Write down the three pages you check most often by hand, and what you are waiting to see on each. If the answer is a price, a new date or a policy change, a plain-language monitor will do the job. If it is whether a server is up, pick a tool built for uptime.
Quick answer
Hexowatch is free to try, not free to keep. For ongoing alerts on a budget, try AyeWatch first. AyeWatch also publishes a longer comparison of Hexowatch alternatives.