Is PageCrawl free? Yes. PageCrawl.io has a Free Forever plan that needs no download: it runs in the browser, and there are iOS and Android apps if you want alerts on your phone. The free plan has firm limits, though, and knowing them up front saves you from the moment your checks pause halfway through the month.
What the free plan includes
PageCrawl's own pricing page lists the Free Forever plan as:
| Limit | Free Forever |
|---|---|
| Pages | Up to 6 |
| Checks a month | Up to 220 |
| Fastest check | Every 60 minutes |
| Users | 1 |
| History | 90 days |
| AI summaries and filtering | 15 a month |
| Screenshots kept | Last 3 |
The good news is that the integrations are not held back. Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, webhooks, the API and its MCP server all work on the free plan, and so does document monitoring for PDFs and spreadsheets.
The catch: 220 checks go fast
Checks are the limit that bites. Six pages checked once a day use around 180 checks in a 30-day month. Check them twice a day and you need about 360, which is over the cap. When you run out, PageCrawl pauses checks until the next month. The AI part is also small: 15 summaries a month means most changes arrive without one.
Several features are paid only: watching pages behind a login, bulk import, data exports, review boards and automatic discovery of new pages. Support is not offered on Free.
What paying looks like
The next step is Standard at $160 a year, shown as $13.33 a month on annual billing. That lifts you to 200 pages, 30,000 checks and 15-minute checks. Monthly billing exists too, at a higher total, and PageCrawl does not refund partly used periods.
A different kind of free: AyeWatch
If what you want is to try change alerts without installing anything, AyeWatch's Free Preview is worth a look, with a different trade. It runs in the browser and has iOS and Android apps, and it asks for no card. The free part is small on purpose: three lifetime monitoring runs across up to three topics, on a daily or slower schedule. The runs do not renew. Think of it as a test drive, not a plan to live on.
What you are testing is the approach. Instead of picking an element on the page, you write what you care about:
Tell me when this game drops below $20 or goes back in stock. Ignore reviews.
AyeWatch's AI reads each new version of the page against that sentence and only sends a push alert when it matches. You can also follow things that are not pages at all, like a subreddit, a YouTube channel or news about a studio, and filter them the same way.
On the free preview, alerts arrive by push and in the app feed. Email, Slack, Discord and webhooks need a paid plan, which starts at $9 a month for Pro.
Which free option suits you
- You want to see whether plain-English alerts cut the noise before paying anything: AyeWatch's Free Preview. Use the three runs on your most annoying pages.
- You want something that runs for free indefinitely on a few pages: PageCrawl's free plan. Six pages and the full set of integrations is a solid deal.
- You want both: keep PageCrawl Free for the six pages that just need a ping, and try AyeWatch on the ones where every check seems to flag something trivial.
Bottom line
PageCrawl is free for six pages and 220 checks a month, with nothing to install. If those limits fit, use it. If you mostly want alerts that skip the trivial changes, or want to follow topics and social posts as well as pages, AyeWatch is the one to try next. Its PageCrawl comparison page lays out the rest.