Competitor Monitoring & Change Alerts | Competiflow

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Competiflow catches the pricing cut, the new feature,
the quiet doc edit, before it reaches your deals.

  • It diffs real fields, not pixels
  • Every change shows its receipts
  • One quiet digest, your cadence

No credit card. 100 free checks to start.

Start your day knowing who moved overnight

Page noise and product changes share the same alert.

Most monitors watch pixels or raw HTML. A moved banner, a rotated testimonial, a fresh cookie notice, they all trip the same alarm as a real price hike. So your morning turns into triage, and the change that actually mattered is buried on line 34.

“Visual monitors alert you when pixels change.
I only care if the actual date changes.”
Reddit r/SaaS, on generic page watchers

This is what lands in your feed

Not a wall of pixels to eyeball. Changes arrive grouped and ranked, each with a plain read on why it matters.

Competiflow feed: an inbox with competitor, type, and severity filters, grouped by day, showing high-severity feature and pricing changes, each with a one-line why it matters.

Open any change

and you get the diff, the receipts, and why it matters

Integrations

Alerts where your team already works

Batch digests or realtime delivery. Email, Slack, or a signed webhook into your stack.

Weekly digest · Inbox

Email

Roll workspace changes into one inbox summary on the cadence you set.

Northwind raised Team pricing…

#competitor-alerts

Slack

Post high-severity moves to a channel so sales and PM see them without opening the feed.

High · Northwind pricing change

POST /hooks/competiflow

Webhook

Push structured JSON to your CRM or internal tools. Signed payloads, digest or realtime.

{ "severity": "high", "summary": "…" }

See notification setup

The overview

Your competitive morning, on one screen

Open the workspace and the week reads itself: what needs a call, who's picking up pace, and where they're shipping.

What needs you first

The changes ranked high enough to act on, each with a one-line read so you triage in minutes, not hours.

The overview's needs-review queue: high-severity feature, pricing, and content changes from PostHog and Supabase, each with a why-it-matters summary and how long ago it landed.

Who's gaining momentum

See who's accelerating and who's cooling off, ranked by change volume across the last week.

The who's-moving panel ranking competitors by change volume over seven days, tagging each as accelerating, steady, or cooling, with a mini bar chart per competitor.

Where they're shipping

A heatmap of activity by surface, so a pricing push or a docs sprint jumps out at a glance.

The activity map: a grid of competitors by surface (homepage, blog, docs, changelog, pricing) with counts highlighted where each competitor has been most active over the last 30 days.

Paste a URL. That's the setup.

No selectors to configure, no macros to record, no onboarding call. Drop in a competitor and Competiflow figures out the rest.

1

Paste a competitor

Drop in a homepage URL. Competiflow finds their pricing, blog, docs, and changelog on its own and starts a monitor for each surface.

2

We read and diff

On your schedule, a real browser loads each page, pulls the fields that carry signal (prices, plans, new posts), and compares them to the last snapshot.

3

You get the signal

Real changes hit your feed and digest, each with a severity, a plain read, why it matters, and the exact before and after.

API & MCP

Would you rather let your agent monitor competitors for you?

Prefer your agent over the dashboard? Connect the MCP server in Claude Desktop, Windsurf, or any MCP client. Same interpreted changes and evidence, callable straight from your agent.

What your agent can do

Five calls cover setup, review, evidence, synthesis, and triage

Same data as the dashboard. Your agent reads interpreted changes, not HTML diffs.

Six things we refused to get wrong

Each one maps to a gripe we heard again and again about the tools you've already tried.

Receipts on every change

The exact text before and after, plus the source URL and the time we read it. Forward it straight to sales.

A change detail showing why it matters, what changed, and the evidence chain: previous capture, current capture, and the exact features PostHog added on its source page.

A read, not a raw diff

Every change ships with a summary, why it matters, and a severity score. Filter to what needs a response instead of reading every diff yourself.

Reads the hard pages

A real browser renders JavaScript pricing, SPAs, and gated pages cheap crawlers skip, which are usually the ones worth watching.

Quiet on purpose

Changes batch into one digest on your cadence, by email, Slack, or webhook. Realtime is opt-in, so the default is one summary, not a firehose.

Know if their new post is worth countering

When a competitor publishes, we attach keyword volume, difficulty, and search intent, then rank the openings. You see whether it's a threat to answer or noise to skip.

Top opportunities panel ranking competitor content by keyword volume, difficulty, and an opportunity score, with a Linear blog post scoring 40 at the top and Vercel, PostHog, and Supabase posts below.

Built for whoever acts on it

Same signal underneath, framed for the person who moves on it.

Keep battlecards current without babysitting a dashboard

You own the competitive narrative. Competiflow tells you the moment a rival changes pricing or positioning, with the proof you can paste straight into a battlecard.

  • Catch pricing and plan changes the day they ship
  • Forward the verbatim before and after to sales, no screenshots
  • Filter to high-severity moves so nothing important hides in noise

Pay for what you check

One check covers one page, hard or easy.
Start with 100 free checks, no credit card required.

Starter

/ month

For a founder watching a handful of competitors on a daily cadence.

  • 2,000 checks / month
  • Up to 20 monitored pages
  • Up to 3 workspaces
  • Daily checks
  • AI change summaries & severity scoring
  • Feed, email digests, and evidence chain

Start free trial

Recommended

Growth

/ month

For teams that need faster checks and SEO signal on content changes.

  • 5,000 checks / month
  • Up to 50 monitored pages
  • Up to 5 workspaces
  • Checks every 6 hours
  • AI change summaries & severity scoring
  • SEO opportunities on new content

Start free trial

Pro

/ month

For teams tracking a full competitive set, including gated pages.

  • 10,000 checks / month
  • Up to 100 monitored pages
  • Up to 10 workspaces
  • Hourly checks
  • AI change summaries & severity scoring
  • SEO opportunities on new content

Start free trial

Billed monthly. Unused checks expire at period end. Cancel anytime.
Prices exclude VAT where applicable.

Estimate your monthly checks

Pick how many competitor pages you want to watch and how often. We'll show your monthly checks and the plan that fits.

20

Roughly 3-6 pages per competitor (pricing, homepage, blog, changelog, docs).

Competitor pages change slowly, so daily is plenty for most teams.

Estimated monthly checks

checks / month

Recommended plan

$19 / month

Comfortably fits your workload with headroom for spikes.

Where Competiflow fits

Page watchers are cheap but noisy. Enterprise suites are powerful but heavy and pricey. We built the part in the middle that most teams actually need.

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Questions people ask before signing up

Point it at one competitor and see

Find out before your customers do. Every change arrives with the before and after attached.

  • It diffs real fields, not pixels
  • Every change shows its receipts

Start free

No credit card required. 100 free checks included.

app.competiflow.com/feed

Competiflow workspace overview with needs-review, changes, competitors moving, and coverage stats above a needs-review queue