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Page Deltas vs Distill.io
Both watch web pages for changes. Distill hands you the machinery — element selectors, regex conditions, check quotas — and you do the judging. Page Deltas asks what you care about in plain English, uses AI to decide whether a change matters, and delivers a summary to the channel your team already works in. Fully in the cloud, with unlimited checks and unlimited users on every plan.
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Distill.io is the power tool of website change detection: element selectors, XPath and regex, compound alert conditions, macros, local monitors running in your browser. If you enjoy tuning that machinery, it's genuinely capable. But most teams don't want to operate a monitoring rig — they want to know when something that matters changes, and what it was. Page Deltas is built around that question: you describe what you care about in plain English, an LLM filters out the noise, and every alert arrives already summarized, in Slack or Teams, on every plan. Everything runs in the cloud with unlimited checks and unlimited seats — no monthly check quotas to budget, no devices to keep online, no webhooks to wire up by hand.
Head to head
How the two compare.
Same job — watch a page, get told when it changes. Opposite philosophies about who does the judging: on Distill you configure what counts; on Page Deltas the AI works it out from a sentence.
| Page Deltas | Distill.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Setting up a watch | Describe what matters in plain English | Pick elements; tune XPath, CSS selectors & regex |
| Noise filtering | AI suppresses cosmetic & irrelevant changes | Hand-built conditions: regex, ranges, and/or logic |
| What the alert says | Plain-language AI summary of what changed | A highlighted diff you read and interpret |
| Where checks run | 100% cloud on every plan — nothing to keep open | Local monitors need your browser running; cloud checks metered monthly |
| New-page discovery | Sitemap monitoring auto-detects new URLs | One monitor added and configured at a time |
| Where alerts land | Slack, Teams, Discord, signed webhook & email built in | Email, push & SMS; Slack, Discord & Teams via DIY webhooks (paid plans) |
| Team access | Unlimited team members on every plan | Personal plans metered by device; team workspaces are Enterprise-only |
| Best fit | Teams who want signal, not configuration | Power users who enjoy tuning selectors & conditions |
Price for price
More pages per dollar — with nothing metered.
Every Page Deltas plan — the free one included — comes with premium AI filtering and summaries, unlimited checks, unlimited team members, and native Slack & Teams delivery. Distill meters usage at every tier: cloud checks per month, email alerts, SMS, devices. The clearest comparison: 150 monitors cost $35/mo on Distill; 150 pages with everything included cost $29/mo on Page Deltas — and $79 buys 1,000.
| Page Deltas | Distill.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 10 pages or sitemaps · unlimited cloud checks · premium AI filtering & summaries · unlimited users · Slack & Teams included | 25 monitors, only 5 in the cloud · cloud checks every 6 hours, capped at 1,000/month · 30 email alerts/month · no Slack, Teams, or webhooks |
| The same 150 pages | $29/mo — 150 pages or sitemaps · unlimited checks · premium AI · unlimited users · Slack & Teams included | $35/mo — 150 monitors · 100,000 cloud checks/month · 5-minute fastest cloud interval · single user, 3 devices · Slack & Teams via DIY webhooks |
| Around $80/mo | $79/mo — 1,000 pages or sitemaps · unlimited checks · premium AI · unlimited users · Slack & Teams included | $80/mo — 500 monitors · 200,000 cloud checks/month · extra usage billed per unit · single user, 4 devices |
Distill figures are from their published Pricing page (Free, Starter $15/mo, Professional $35/mo, and Flexi $80/mo, billed monthly) as of July 2026 and may change. Page Deltas plans shown are Free, Starter ($29/mo), and Pro ($79/mo); the Business plan covers 5,000 pages or sitemaps for $199/mo — see the pricing page for every tier.
What you get with Page Deltas that you don't with a selector-based tool.
Six things that turn change monitoring from a configuration project into a source of signal.
Describe it in plain English
No element picking, no XPath, no regular expressions. Tell Page Deltas “alert me when their pricing or positioning changes” and we monitor for exactly that. Setup is a sentence, not a config.
AI filters the noise
On a selector-based tool, avoiding false alarms means predicting every noisy element and writing conditions to exclude it. On Page Deltas, an LLM checks every detected change against your instructions — so cookie banners, rotating testimonials, and timestamp tweaks never wake you up.
AI tells you what changed
Every alert opens with a plain-language summary — “Pro plan went from $49 to $59/mo and the annual discount was removed” — instead of a highlighted diff of a selected element you have to read and interpret yourself.
Fully cloud, nothing to keep running
Distill's cheaper tiers lean on local monitors that only check while your browser is open, and its cloud checks are metered by the month. Page Deltas runs every check in the cloud on every plan — laptop closed, weekends included, no quota to budget.
Built for teams, not devices
Distill's self-serve plans are personal accounts with limits counted in devices — shared team workspaces are an Enterprise feature — and Slack or Teams delivery means wiring up incoming webhooks yourself on a paid plan. Page Deltas includes unlimited team members on every plan, with native delivery to shared Slack, Teams, or Discord channels — the whole team sees the change at once.
More pages per dollar
Line the published plans up: $29/mo buys 150 monitored pages or sitemaps on Page Deltas versus $35/mo for 150 monitors on Distill, and $79/mo buys 1,000 versus $80/mo for 500. Even free: 10 always-on cloud pages with premium AI versus 5 cloud monitors checked every 6 hours.
Why it's different
Built for the era of AI, not hand-tuned selectors.
Distill is simple on the surface with power under the hood — but the power is manual: you pick the elements, write the conditions, and read the diffs. Page Deltas moves that work to an LLM. You describe the change you care about in plain English, AI does the judging, and your alert arrives pre-summarized — the tool absorbs the effort instead of asking you for it. That's also why nothing is metered: no cloud-check quotas, no alert allowances, no device counts.
- ✓Natural-language monitoring instead of element selectors, XPath, and regex
- ✓AI filtering instead of hand-built alert conditions
- ✓A written summary of every change, not just a highlighted diff
- ✓100% cloud on every plan — no browser extension or device to keep online
Switching from Distill.io takes minutes.
Bring the pages you already watch and retire the selector maintenance — your current Distill budget covers more pages here, checked without quotas.
Add the same pages
Paste in the URLs you currently monitor in Distill — pricing pages, product pages, docs, or a whole sitemap. Bulk import makes the move one paste, and there are no selectors to recreate.
Say what matters in plain English
Instead of picking elements and stacking regex or number-range conditions, type the changes worth interrupting you for. Page Deltas turns that into an AI filter applied on every check.
Get summaries, not diffs
When something material changes, we ping your channel with an AI summary and before/after screenshots — so you act on the change instead of decoding it.
Everything people use Distill for — minus the upkeep.
Anything public on the web. These are the pages teams watch most.
Competitor pricing pages
Catch price hikes, new tiers, and discount changes the moment they ship.
See competitor pricing monitoring →Competitor websites
Track positioning, homepage messaging, and product pages across a rival's whole site.
See competitor website monitoring →New pages via sitemap
Point us at a sitemap.xml and get alerted when brand-new URLs appear — a launch, an integration, a new page.
See SEO & content monitoring →Terms of Service & legal
Know when a vendor quietly changes their ToS or privacy policy.
See Terms of Service monitoring →Regulatory & compliance
Track rule changes from the SEC, FDA, FCC, and other regulators.
See regulatory monitoring →Changelogs & release notes
Follow competitor releases, vendor changes, and status pages without checking them by hand.
See changelog monitoring →Vanliga frågor
- Is Page Deltas a good Distill.io alternative?
- If you use Distill to know when a page changes, Page Deltas does the same job without the configuration: you describe what matters in plain English, an LLM filters out the noise, and every alert comes with a written summary of what actually changed. Teams tend to switch when selector maintenance and metered cloud checks start to feel like a part-time job — and stay because at matched capacity Page Deltas costs less, with checks, seats, and integrations included instead of metered.
- What's the main difference between Page Deltas and Distill.io?
- Who does the judging. Distill gives you machinery — element selectors, XPath and regex, compound alert conditions — and you decide what counts as a real change by configuring it. Page Deltas asks you to describe the change in natural language; an LLM decides whether each detected change qualifies and writes the summary. One is a power tool you operate; the other is a filter you instruct.
- Is Page Deltas cheaper than Distill.io?
- At matched capacity, yes. Distill's Professional plan covers 150 monitors for $35/mo with 100,000 cloud checks a month; Page Deltas covers 150 pages or sitemaps for $29/mo with unlimited checks, premium AI, and unlimited team members. At $80/mo Distill's Flexi covers 500 monitors; $79/mo on Page Deltas covers 1,000. Distill's $15/mo Starter is a cheaper entry point in absolute dollars, but it covers 50 monitors with 10-minute-minimum metered cloud checks — Page Deltas' free plan already covers 10 pages with everything included, and $29 covers three times the pages of Distill's Starter.
- Can I move my existing Distill.io monitors over?
- Yes — paste in the same URLs, or bulk-import a whole list at once. There are no element selectors, XPath expressions, or alert conditions to recreate; you replace that configuration with a one-sentence instruction describing what you want to be alerted about. Most people move their watchlist over in a few minutes.
- Which alert channels does Page Deltas support?
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, signed API webhooks, and email — native on every plan, including the free one. On Distill, Slack, Discord, and Teams delivery works through incoming webhooks you configure yourself, on paid plans only. Distill does offer SMS alerts, which Page Deltas doesn't — if text messages are essential to your workflow, that's a point for Distill.
- Does Page Deltas monitor pages behind a login?
- Not yet — Page Deltas monitors the public web, which covers the vast majority of pricing, marketing, docs, legal, and product pages teams watch. Distill's macros and local monitors can reach authenticated pages, so if logged-in monitoring is your core use case, Distill has the edge there today. Authenticated monitoring is on the Page Deltas roadmap.
Get the alert that tells you what changed.
Bring the pages you already watch, describe what matters in plain English, and let AI do the filtering and the summarizing. Set it up in a couple of minutes — no selectors to maintain, no quotas to budget.