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Yes. ChangeTower lists an ongoing Free plan for monitoring three website URLs, checked once a day. Its FAQ says the plan does not expire and does not require a payment card. This is separate from the five-day trial available on paid plans.

What ChangeTower’s Free plan includes

ChangeTower’s pricing page lists these Free-plan features: AI monitoring, content-change detection, keyword tracking, email notifications, tags, roles and permissions, activity logs, comments, and export of notification content. Selective monitoring and custom check schedules are not included.

One monitored page means one URL, regardless of how many changes or details you watch on that page. The plan checks those URLs daily; it is not an on-demand or continuous monitor. ChangeTower says it checks pages externally, as a visitor would, and does not require code to be installed on the website being monitored. ChangeTower’s feature overview describes its monitoring methods.

How the Free plan compares with paid plans

The figures below are the US-dollar prices and terms listed on ChangeTower’s pricing page, reviewed in 2026. Prices and plan terms can change, so confirm them on the current pricing page before subscribing. ChangeTower says annual billing saves 20%; the listed monthly equivalents are shown separately.

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Plan Listed monthly price Monitored pages Check interval Snapshot history
Free $0 3 Daily Not stated in the cited plan details
Lite $12/month; $10/month equivalent with annual billing 25 Daily 30 days
Essential $36/month; $29/month equivalent with annual billing 100 Hourly 60 days
Business $78/month; $62/month equivalent with annual billing 200 Every 20 minutes 6 months
Enterprise Custom-priced Not stated Not stated Not stated

The comparison is about capacity, check speed, and history; the official pricing page has the plan-by-plan details for other allowances and integrations.

When the free limit is enough

Three daily checks may suit a small watchlist where a change can wait until the next day. For example, you could use the three URLs for a product page, a competitor’s pricing page, and a policy page. ChangeTower’s guidance for monitoring your own site suggests considering the homepage or landing pages, pricing or product pages, legal or disclosure pages, and contact, support, or checkout pages. For competitor tracking, it suggests pricing, product and feature pages, release notes, customer stories, news or blogs, and careers pages.

Choose pages based on the consequence of missing a change. If you need to monitor more than three URLs, receive faster checks, or keep a longer snapshot history, compare the paid limits rather than assuming the free plan can be expanded with multiple watches on one URL.

Free plan versus the paid-plan trial

The Free plan is ongoing. The separate trial on paid plans lasts five days and includes the full plan. ChangeTower’s FAQ says a card is added at signup and the selected plan is charged automatically after those five days unless you cancel before the trial ends. Review the checkout terms and cancellation timing before starting a trial. See the ChangeTower FAQ for its stated trial and free-plan terms.

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ScreenshotNeo: an alternative when you need a screenshot, not change alerts

ChangeTower is for watching URLs for changes over time. If your task is instead to capture a clean screenshot or PDF of a page, try ScreenshotNeo first. It is a website screenshot API and MCP server; it is not a replacement for ongoing change monitoring.

Capture a page with one GET request

Replace the access key placeholder with your key and change the target URL as needed. The response is the screenshot file; see the ScreenshotNeo API documentation for request options and response details.

curl -G "https://api.screenshotneo.com/v1/shot" -d access_key=YOUR_API_KEY --data-urlencode url=https://stripe.com -o shot.webp

ScreenshotNeo can accept cookie or consent banners and remove more than 60 known consent platforms, newsletter popups, and chat widgets before capture; each step can be disabled. Bot checks or CAPTCHAs, blank pages, timeouts, failed loads, and cache hits are not billed, and responses identify the page verdict and billing status in headers. Its MCP server gives AI agents tools for screenshots, page information, and PDF capture.

The Free plan includes 1,000 screenshots per month with no card. Paid plans start at $5 for 3,000 screenshots. Sign up for ScreenshotNeo free.

Free tools Windows power users keep installed

One-click scans. No signup required.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does ChangeTower’s free plan expire?

No. ChangeTower’s FAQ says the Free plan does not expire.

Does the Free plan require a credit card?

No. ChangeTower says the ongoing Free plan requires no payment card.

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