Why Choose RIVAL over VisualPing?

First, we’d like to acknowledge the team at VisualPing. They’ve built a great product to help with webpage monitoring. If you’re here to understand the difference between RIVAL and VisualPing, or looking for an alternative, you’re in the right place.

What's the Difference between RIVAL and VisualPing?

Sure, there are feature and product differences between the companies (which we get into further down this page if you’re interested), but at its core, RIVAL was built to both discover and monitor pages. This was accomplished by integrating continual page detection and indexing right into the technology.

So if you’re a product manager, researches, journalist, marketing, and so on; you know that we understand firsthand that you need a product that you can point at a website and say “Go”. You can’t afford to miss anything or find every page that matter. That is why we make it foolproof, letting you see everything and monitor what matters.

The Top 3 Reasons Why Companies Choose RIVAL over VisualPing

Page discovery and change detection.

Discovery and Detection together. RIVAL has a built in scraping technology that uncovers new pages that are there, and notifies you on new pages that are found. This allows you to always be looking at the changes that matter, and even discover things you wished you knew about!

No hidden costs or credit-based pricing.

RIVAL does not limit you by the number of credits you have purchased or pages you wish to monitor. If there is a site that matter, RIVAL will be there. We price in a way that matches the average amount of sites our customers look to capture and there are no other strings!

A Simple & User-Friendly Interface

All changes are measured, compared and put together in a simple and easy to use feed! RIVAL will highlight any changes and keep before/after images on any change. With new pages that are detected, RIVAL lets you easily see a preview of the page.