ChangeTower is built for compliance and archiving, and its pricing reflects that: the free plan and the $12 Lite plan both check once a day, and hourly checking starts at $36 a month. If you are watching a price, a stock level or a status page, daily is not monitoring — it is a newsletter. Here is the honest comparison.
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Is MonitoringDaddy a real ChangeTower alternative?
For anything time-sensitive, yes, and by a wide margin on price per unit of frequency. ChangeTower remains the better choice if your reason for monitoring is legal or compliance evidence — it keeps archived snapshots of how a page looked, which is a different job from telling you quickly that something moved.
ChangeTower's free tier and its $12/month Lite plan both check once every 24 hours. For a competitor price, a job posting or a policy update you need to respond to, a day-old alert has usually already cost you the opportunity.
Moving from daily to hourly means the $36/month Essential plan. Twenty-minute checking means the $78/month Business plan. Frequency is the main thing you are buying as you move up the tiers.
ChangeTower watches content. When the page you are archiving goes offline entirely, or its certificate expires, that is a different tool and a second bill.
Green marks the stronger option on that row. Third-party pricing and limits change without notice — treat the ChangeTower column as a starting point and confirm current figures on their site before you decide.
| Feature | ChangeTower | MonitoringDaddy |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 pages, checked daily | 1 page watch and 1 uptime monitor, every 30 minutes |
| Entry paid price and frequency | $12/mo — 25 pages, still checked daily | $5/mo — 25 watches and 25 monitors, every 5 minutes |
| Cost of hourly checking | $36/mo (Essential, 100 pages) — verify on their site | $5/mo, and faster than hourly |
| Fastest interval available | 20 minutes on the $78/mo Business plan | 60 seconds on the $34/mo Pro plan |
| Pages at the entry paid tier | 25 | 25 watches, plus 25 uptime monitors |
| Archived page snapshots for compliance | Yes — a core feature | Screenshots and text versions are kept, but this is not an archiving product |
| History retention | 30 days free, up to 6 months on Business | Last 40 versions per watch, no time limit |
| Team members | Yes — 1 to 5 depending on tier | Yes — 3 seats on the $5 plan, 1 on Basic, 10 on Growth, 25 on Pro; none on free |
| Element / region picker | Yes | Yes — click the part of the page you want watched |
| Keyword-triggered alerts | Yes | Yes — only email me when the change mentions these words |
| Uptime, SSL and domain expiry monitoring | No | Yes, on every plan |
| Hosted status page | No | Yes, on every plan |
| Alert channels | Email, webhooks, Slack | Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock, webhooks |
Every comparison page on the internet claims the author's product wins on everything. Here is where it does not.
If any of those are load-bearing for your team, staying put is the correct decision and this page has done its job. Monitoring you actually trust beats monitoring that is marginally cheaper.
Six monitor types and one dashboard. No add-on products, no separate SKUs for the features you assumed were included.
HTTP checks from external infrastructure, as often as every 60 seconds, with downtime and recovery alerts. See the uptime setup guide.
A dedicated monitor type with configurable advance warnings, so a certificate never lapses because nobody owned the renewal. See SSL expiry monitoring.
Registration expiry tracked as its own monitor, warning you months ahead. The outage nobody has a runbook for. See domain expiration monitoring.
Alert when a phrase appears or disappears on a page — defacement, stock changes, silent policy edits. See website change detection.
Watch a competitor or supplier price string and get told the moment it moves. See the price monitoring guide.
Public status pages included on every plan, hosted independently of your infrastructure so they stay up when you do not. See hosted status pages.
Alerts from any of these can be routed to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock or a generic webhook, and a single monitor can carry several channels at once. Everything is available through the REST API on paid plans, so monitors can be created and torn down programmatically rather than clicked through a form.
Flat monthly tiers. No per-seat charges, no credit top-ups, no usage meters — the number below is the whole bill.
| Plan | Monitors | Fastest interval | Alert channels | API | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | Every 30 minutes | — | $0 | |
| Founding Member first 20 only | 25 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $5/mo |
| Basic | 10 | Every 10 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $8/mo |
| Growth | 50 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $19/mo |
| Pro | 100 | Every 60 seconds | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $34/mo |
Annual billing is cheaper on every paid tier. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
There is no automated importer — monitors are re-created by hand, or scripted through the API on paid plans. Budget about a minute per monitor.
List every active check: URL, interval, condition and alert recipients. Most teams find monitors nobody needs any more.
Start with revenue-critical URLs. Set the interval, add the condition, attach the channels your team already watches.
Keep ChangeTower live while the new monitors settle. Compare alerts and confirm nothing is missing.
Move any public status page across, confirm a clean week of overlap, then cancel the old subscription.
This page is written by the team that builds MonitoringDaddy, so treat it as an informed argument rather than a neutral audit. What we can promise is that the claims about our own product are checked against what the software actually does, and the rows where ChangeTower is stronger are marked as such rather than quietly omitted.
Details about ChangeTower come from their public pricing and documentation at the time of writing. Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement, so every third-party figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
One thing worth stating plainly, because most comparison pages fudge it: MonitoringDaddy checks run from our own infrastructure, which is external to yours, but from a single origin rather than a global probe network. That is enough to catch outages and content changes independently of your stack. It is not enough to tell you a site is down in Frankfurt but up in Ohio. If regional verification is a hard requirement, a larger platform will serve you better and we would rather you knew that now.
Found something out of date or wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.
Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
The free plan here checks every 30 minutes, against ChangeTower's daily. The $5 Founding Member plan checks every 5 minutes, which on ChangeTower is faster than any published tier — their quickest is 20 minutes on the $78/month Business plan. Please verify current ChangeTower pricing on their site, as theirs changes independently of ours.
Not in the way ChangeTower does, and if that is your reason for monitoring you should stay with them. Every recorded version here keeps the extracted text and a full-page screenshot, so you can see what the page said and looked like at that moment — but it is built to tell you something changed, not to serve as a legal archive.
The last 40 versions of each watched page, with no time limit on how far back that reaches. A page that changes twice a year will hold twenty years of history; a page that changes daily will hold about six weeks.
Yes. Team seats give each colleague their own login into your account: 3 on the $5 Founding Member plan, 1 on Basic, 10 on Growth and 25 on Pro. They can see and manage your monitors and watches but never your billing. The free plan is single-user. You can also send one watch's alerts to several email addresses independently of seats.
You choose. The default ignores cosmetic churn and tells you about real edits; you can also ask for any change at all, or only substantial ones. Standalone numbers can be ignored so counters and timestamps do not wake you, and keywords can be set so you are only emailed when the words that changed involve something you named.
Yes, by default. A curated blocklist strips cookie bars, adverts, chat widgets and carousels, and before the first check the page is fetched twice two seconds apart so anything that changes on its own is excluded automatically.
Yes, both, on every plan including free — and the same record does double duty, so a watched page is also an uptime monitor. See SSL expiry monitoring.
Yes, permanently, with no card required: one page watch and one uptime monitor checked every 30 minutes, with email alerts.
There is a bulk import that takes up to 100 URLs in one go, and an API on paid plans.
$34/month on the Pro plan, which covers 100 page watches and 100 uptime monitors at 60-second checks. ChangeTower's 100-page tier is $36/month at hourly checks.
Last updated August 6, 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
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