Distill.io or an Apify Actor? Change alerts on a few pages vs a full price file for whole shops
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Short answer: Distill.io watches web pages and alerts you when something on them changes, by email, push, SMS or webhook. You set it up per page (a monitor), in its browser extension, desktop app or cloud. Its pricing page (checked 25 Oct 2026) shows Free with 25 monitors (5 in the cloud, checked at most every 6 hours, 1,000 cloud checks a month), Starter $15 a month (50 monitors, every 10 minutes, 30,000 checks), Professional $35 (150 monitors, every 5 minutes, 100,000 checks) and Flexi from $80 (500+ monitors, every 2 minutes). Browser-extension checks are unlimited. Our Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker on Apify does not send alerts; it reads the whole public catalogue of each shop you list and returns one row per product, with variants, price, compare-at price and stock as one file. It is free during launch; you pay only Apify platform usage. If you want an alert the minute one product page changes, pick Distill. If you want a complete price sheet for whole shops, try ours.
The pain this page is about
“My competitor has 300 products. I don't want 300 alerts; I want one sheet every Monday that shows what each product costs and what is out of stock.” A page monitor is built for a few pages you care about a lot. A catalogue reader is built for every product at once.
Side by side (function and price, from public pages)
| Distill.io | Unadhi Product + Price Tracker (Apify) | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Watch any web page (or part of it) for changes and alert you | Read the public product catalogue of Shopify and WooCommerce shops and export it |
| Set-up unit | One monitor per page or URL | One shop URL per line; all its products are read |
| Sites it works on | Any website, including pages behind actions or macros | Shopify and WooCommerce shops with public catalogues |
| What you get | Change alerts and version history for each monitor | One row per product with its variants: price, compare-at price, availability, SKU/GTIN, images, URLs, plus a per-shop summary of what was read or skipped |
| Alerts | Email, push, SMS (paid plans) and webhooks | None built in; compare runs in a sheet, or use Apify webhooks |
| Price (public, checked 25 Oct 2026) | Free $0 (25 monitors, 5 in cloud, 6-hour minimum interval) · Starter $15/month · Professional $35/month · Flexi $80+/month | Actor fee: free during launch. Apify Free plan includes $5 of usage a month, no card |
| Limits | Monitor count and cloud checks per month by plan; unused checks expire each billing period | Apify platform usage per run; you set products per shop and listing pages |
| Cancel | Switch to the free plan or close the account from the billing page | Nothing to cancel with us |
A function-and-price summary in our own words, not a review. We do not repeat the testimonials on its site.
Who should pick Distill.io instead
- You watch a handful of specific pages (one product, a price list PDF page, a tender page) and want an alert fast.
- The sites you watch are not Shopify or WooCommerce, or need clicks or a login before the price shows.
- You want SMS or push notifications, not a data file.
Who our Actor fits better
- You want every product, with its variants, of a competitor in one CSV, not one alert per page.
- You compare several shops side by side, Shopify and WooCommerce mixed.
- You want a weekly file you can sort, filter and chart in Google Sheets or Excel.
Other honest comparisons: Prisync · Visualping.
Try it on three shops first
Actor fee: free during launch · you pay only Apify platform usage
The Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker is a pay-per-usage Actor on Apify: you pay only for the platform resources the run uses, with no extra developer charge (Apify docs). Apify's free plan is $0 and includes $5 of platform usage a month, no credit card (apify.com/pricing). Listing pages are free in the Actor's own design, and shops that are skipped or return nothing cost nothing. We do not quote a cost per 1,000 products; run a small test and read the usage in your Apify billing page. Built and published by Unadhi (disclosure).
Free gift: copy-paste input for a three-shop price check
Read the SHOPS_SUMMARY record after the run: it tells you which shops were skipped and why. No code at all? You can also read one Shopify shop's public catalogue in your browser at /products.json for free: see how to export a Shopify or WooCommerce product list to CSV and build a competitor price sheet.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Distill.io cost?
Its pricing page (checked 25 Oct 2026) shows Free at $0 (25 monitors, 5 in the cloud, 1,000 cloud checks a month, 6-hour minimum cloud interval), Starter $15 a month (50 monitors, 10-minute interval, 30,000 checks), Professional $35 a month (150 monitors, 5-minute interval, 100,000 checks) and Flexi from $80 a month (500+ monitors, 2-minute interval, 200,000+ checks).
Are Distill.io browser checks limited?
Its FAQ says browser-extension checks are unlimited while cloud checks are limited by plan, counted in units of 10 seconds. Unused resources expire at the end of each billing period.
Can Distill.io track prices on any website?
It monitors any web page for changes, so it can watch a price on a page you choose. It sends an alert when that part changes; it does not export a shop's full catalogue as a table.
Does the Unadhi Actor send price-change alerts?
No. It exports the current catalogue each run. Schedule it weekly in Apify and compare the files, or connect an Apify webhook to your own alert.
What does the Unadhi Actor cost?
No Actor fee during launch. You pay Apify only for the platform usage of each run; Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month.
Not legal advice. Public product and price data is generally fine to read for your own comparison; respect each shop's terms and do not republish their content. Competitor prices and plans change; re-check their pricing pages before you decide. Spotted an error about any product on this page, including ours? Write to mininglife7@gmail.com and we correct it.
Sources
- Distill.io pricing (plans, monitors, intervals, checks, FAQ, cancellation) — https://distill.io/pricing/ (checked 25 Oct 2026)
- Unadhi Shopify & WooCommerce Product + Price Tracker on Apify Store — https://apify.com/laudable_instrument/ecommerce-product-data-half-price (checked 25 Oct 2026)
- Apify docs: pay-per-usage Actors — https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage (checked 25 Oct 2026)
- Apify pricing (Free plan, $5 monthly usage) — https://apify.com/pricing (checked 25 Oct 2026)
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