Is OnWebChange free? What the free plan covers
Yes: three trackers with daily checks, for good. Here is what it leaves out and the free options to try alongside it.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom · Editorial team
· 3 min read
Is OnWebChange free? Yes, there is a free plan, and it does not expire. It is small, though: three page trackers, checked once a day. Here is what it covers, what it leaves out, and the free and low-cost options worth trying next to it.
What the free plan includes
OnWebChange's pricing page, checked in October 2026, lists these on the free plan:
- 3 page trackers
- Daily monitoring
- Email, Pushover and URL callback notifications
- A personal RSS feed of your trackers
- CSS selection, so you can watch one part of a page
- PDF and file tracking
- Rules, filters and number conversions
- Email support
For three public pages that change slowly, that is a useful free tool.
What it leaves out
The free plan does not include:
- Faster checks. Daily is the limit; the paid plans add more frequent checking, with the fastest running about every 5 minutes.
- Change reports. The highlighted difference report starts on Standard.
- History and charts. Tracker history and number graphs also start on Standard.
- Groups, import and export. Standard and up.
- Extra recipients. Adding more email addresses per tracker starts on Lite.
What the paid plans cost
| Plan | Monthly price | Trackers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | 3 |
| Lite | €0.89 | 10 |
| Standard | €2.79 | Unlimited |
| Turbo-50 | €4.99 | 50 |
| Turbo-100 | €8.99 | 100 |
Even the paid plans are among the cheapest in the category.
Getting the most from three trackers
With only three slots, choose pages where a daily check is fast enough: a job board you apply through, a product you plan to buy next month, a club's events page. Use the CSS selection to narrow each tracker to the part you care about, so a changed footer or banner does not count. If you need alerts on your phone, install Pushover, since OnWebChange sends mobile alerts through that app rather than its own.
Free and low-cost options next to it
If the free plan feels tight, these are the other ways to start without paying much:
AyeWatch. The AyeWatch Free Preview gives three lifetime monitoring runs across up to three topics, no card needed. It is a trial rather than a lasting free plan, so use it to test whether writing a rule in plain English, such as "tell me when the opening hours on this page change", cuts out the alerts you do not need. Pro is $9 a month after that, Pro+ is $19, and usage is counted in monitoring credits. Push alerts and the in-app feed are on every plan, with iOS and Android apps. It also watches topics across news and social sources, not only pages.
Visualping. Free plan with 5 pages and 150 checks a month, plus AI summaries.
Distill. Free plan with 25 monitors, 5 of them running in the cloud. The rest need your browser open.
PageCrawl.io. Free Forever plan with 6 pages and 220 checks.
changedetection.io. Free if you host it yourself.
Which free option fits
- A few public pages, no rush: OnWebChange's free plan is enough.
- More pages for free: Distill or PageCrawl.io.
- Alerts that only fire when the change matters: try AyeWatch's Free Preview, then decide whether $9 a month is worth it.
- Your own server: changedetection.io.
The catch with any free plan
Free tiers save money, but slow checks and noisy alerts cost time. If a daily check is too late, or if you keep opening alerts about edits that mean nothing, a small paid plan usually pays for itself. AyeWatch's list of OnWebChange alternatives compares the paid options in more detail.