OmniWatchGuard vs ChangeTower
plans, alerts and monitoring types compared
Both tools check web pages on a schedule and tell you when something changes. Below are the plans, check intervals, alert channels and monitoring types of each, side by side. Comparison based on information published by each provider; check their sites for current details.
The short version
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Choose OmniWatchGuard if...
You mainly track text, price, stock, SEO fields or JSON API responses, want an AI summary with a severity rating for each change, and prefer fixed-price plans in EUR.
Choose ChangeTower if...
You want a permanent free plan, extra team members on the account, or the archiving and multi-workspace options of its Enterprise plan.
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Feature | OmniWatchGuard | ChangeTower |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan or trial | Free 24h trial: no card, up to 3 monitors, checks every 60 minutes | Free plan: 3 pages, daily checks, email alerts; 5-day free trial on paid plans |
| Entry paid plan | 9 EUR/month (Starter): 10 monitors, checks every 60 minutes, email alerts | 12 USD/month billed monthly (Lite): 25 pages, daily checks |
| 100 pages | 25 EUR/month (Pro): 100 monitors, checks every 15, 30 or 60 minutes | 36 USD/month billed monthly (Essential): 100 pages, hourly checks |
| Shortest check interval | 5 minutes (Agency, 60 EUR/month); 15 minutes (Pro); 60 minutes (Starter) | Hourly (Essential, Business); custom on Enterprise |
| Slack / webhook | Included in Pro (25 EUR/month) and Agency | Listed on Business (78 USD/month billed monthly) and Enterprise |
| Discord / Telegram | Included in Agency (60 EUR/month) | Not listed on their pricing page as of 4 October 2026 |
| Change history kept | 30 days (Starter), 90 days (Pro), 365 days (Agency) | Snapshot history: 30 days (Free, Lite), 60 days (Essential), 6 months (Business) |
| AI change summaries | Yes: a summary of each change, rated minor, major or critical | Yes: AI monitoring listed on all plans, including Free |
| Team members | One user per account | Additional team members on paid plans (1 on Lite, 3 on Essential, 5 on Business) |
ChangeTower details: price and limits published on their site, checked on 4 October 2026 (ChangeTower pricing page). Prices and limits can change; see also our pricing.
What ChangeTower lists that OmniWatchGuard does not offer
Permanent free plan
3 pages checked daily, with email alerts. OmniWatchGuard has a 24-hour trial, then paid plans.
Team members
Paid plans include additional team members. An OmniWatchGuard account has one user.
Enterprise archiving options
The Enterprise plan lists full-page archiving, multi-region monitoring and a multi-workspace setup. OmniWatchGuard does not offer these.
What OmniWatchGuard offers
Price and stock monitors
Dedicated monitor types for the price and the stock status of a product page. They work on sites that allow automated access; OmniWatchGuard respects robots.txt and does not bypass anti-bot protection.
AI summary with severity
An AI model summarizes each change and rates it minor, major or critical. Alerts are sent for major and critical changes; minor ones are recorded in the dashboard.
Alert channels by plan
Starter: email. Pro: email, webhook and Slack. Agency: adds Discord and Telegram.
SEO, JSON API and SSL checks
Monitors for SEO fields (title, meta description, H1, canonical, robots, OG tags, schema types), JSON API responses and SSL certificate expiry.
Try it yourself
Free 24-hour trial, no card: up to 3 monitors, checked every 60 minutes.
Start the free trial →Frequently asked questions
How do the entry prices of OmniWatchGuard and ChangeTower compare?
OmniWatchGuard Starter costs 9 EUR/month for 10 monitors checked every 60 minutes. ChangeTower publishes its Lite plan at 12 USD/month billed monthly, for 25 pages checked daily, and also has a free plan (price published on their site, checked on 4 October 2026)
Does ChangeTower send Discord or Telegram alerts?
Discord and Telegram are not listed on ChangeTower's pricing page as of 4 October 2026; it lists email, plus Slack and webhooks on Business and Enterprise. OmniWatchGuard includes Discord and Telegram in the Agency plan.
Does OmniWatchGuard do visual or screenshot monitoring?
No. OmniWatchGuard does not compare screenshots. It detects changes in text, price, stock, a CSS-selected element, SEO fields and JSON API responses, and checks SSL certificate expiry.
What does the OmniWatchGuard trial include?
The trial is free, lasts 24 hours and needs no card. It allows up to 3 monitors, checked every 60 minutes, with all alert channels available. Pages that need JavaScript rendering are not rendered in the trial.
Test it on your own pages
Add a monitor and see what an alert looks like.
Try OmniWatchGuard free →No card for the trial
