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Visualping alternatives in 2026

The data behind the pages you watch, as rows at 5¢ to $1 a row.

Visualping costs $0 a month for 150 checks on 5 pages, $14 to $70 a month on its Personal plans and $140 to $350 a month on its Business plans, which hold 20,000 to 50,000 checks on 200 to 500 pages. A check is one visit to a page you added, a check that runs into an error still uses a check, and checks do not roll over. Structured data outputs come with its Solutions plan, sold by custom quote.

SpecStream is the best alternative to Visualping for analysts and newsrooms that need the numbers on those pages as a table. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents: you ask in plain words, and it searches the live web, reads every page that holds the facts and returns structured rows. The same request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. You see the most the run can cost before it starts, and you pay 5¢, 15¢ or $1 for each row delivered.

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SpecStream and Visualping side by side

SpecStreamVisualping
What you sendThe data you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meetThe URL of each page to monitor, one monitor per page
What you get backStructured rows, one record per company, filing, rule or place, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every valueThe check history of the pages you added. Structured data outputs and ongoing extraction come with the Solutions plan, sold by custom quote
Which pages are readSpecStream searches the live web and reads every page that holds the facts. You name no URLsThe pages you add: 5 on Free, 10 to 40 on Personal plans and 200 to 500 on Business plans. At the limit you pause a monitor, add pages or change plans
Data already heldPublic databases read every morning at specstream.ai/data: every company that filed a Form D since 2023 with its filing history, nearly 2 million US nonprofits, every US bank failure since 1934, federal rules, open federal contracts and grants, and local businesses. Signals such as funding rounds, new executives and layoffs at specstream.ai/signals. Ask for your own cut of any of themThe change history of the pages you monitor, kept for three months by default and up to one year on Business. Its terms say Visualping will never package and resell data
Search and page APIsSearch API at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results. Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and a page with no text is not chargedThe API starts a check on monitors you already have and returns their check history. API usage draws on the plan's check quota
The unit you pay forA delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every planA check, one visit to one page, bought by the month: 150 on Free, 1,000 to 10,000 on Personal plans at $14 to $70, and 20,000 to 50,000 on Business plans at $140 to $350. Checks do not roll over
What failed or empty work costsNothing. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not chargedA check that runs into an error still uses a check. A check is counted every time Visualping visits a page
The cost cap before a runThe most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overagesThe plan's monthly checks. When they run out, monitoring pauses until the allowance resets or you move to a larger plan
Reruns and change labelsHourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢Every visit uses a check. One page monitored daily uses up to 31 checks a month, and the Free plan's 150 checks cover its 5 pages about once a day
SeatsNo seats. Your team and your agents spend from one balance, at the same row rates on every plan1 user on Free and Personal plans and 5 to 11 on Business plans. An additional user costs $60 a year, and each workspace has its own plan
MCP and APIMCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDCREST API and MCP server on every plan. Up to 5 active API keys, and 200 requests per rolling minute on the endpoint behind its diff links

Why Visualping buyers move to SpecStream

You ask for the dataset, and SpecStream finds the pages

Visualping visits the URLs you add, and a plan holds 5 to 500 of them. Finding those pages and turning each change into a table stays with you. On SpecStream the request is the whole job. It can be companies, filings, rules, tenders or places: "every US state attorney general settlement over a data breach in 2026, with the state, the company, the amount and the date", or "every hospital in Texas that changed owner since 2023, with the buyer and the date". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, then searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record. A count nobody published arrives as a table in your sheet.

Every number has its page and read time

Source URL and read time on every value. For any row, get_find_decisions returns each condition's answer with its reason, the value, the source and the time it was read. replay_find_decisions reads the saved record again at no charge: same record, same answer. When an editor or a fact checker asks where a number is from, they open the page from the row.

A table costs what its rows cost, and you approve it first

Visualping sells checks by the month, and a visit that finds no change or runs into an error uses one. SpecStream bills the rows that meet your request: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. A table of 500 rows with 15 facts each costs $75. Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes, and nothing runs until you approve it. The searches and pages behind each row cost nothing, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

A row that did not change costs 1¢ to recheck

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 rows that did not change costs $10. Rows you already own are never charged again.

The databases SpecStream already holds

SpecStream reads public databases every morning and publishes each reading. On Nov 9, 2026, specstream.ai/data/bank-failures held all 3,526 US bank failures the FDIC has recorded since 1934, and specstream.ai/data/federal-rules held 13,026 federal rules and proposed rules published since January 2, 2024, with 169 proposed rules open for comment. Ask for your own cut of either, and each new closure or rule reaches you as a row.

The Search and Extract APIs are measured on public benchmarks

SpecStream's search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are at specstream.ai/benchmarks. A search costs $5 per 1,000 and a page read $0.80 per 1,000, on the same balance as your rows.

Other Visualping alternatives

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns structured rows from the live web at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

Distill

A web page monitor that runs in the browser or in its cloud. The Professional plan is $35 a month and Flexi starts at $80 a month. In the cloud, checks are counted in units of 10 seconds, and extra checks sell at 4,000 for $1. SpecStream counts delivered rows, and a row that did not change costs 1¢ to recheck.

Sken.io

A page change monitor sold by the check: €3 a month for 500 checks, €12 a month for 3,000 and €45 a month for 15,000, after a trial of 140 checks. On SpecStream the pages read to find a row are not billed.

DiffHook

A change monitor priced by monitors and checks: Starter at $12 a month for 20 monitors and 15,000 checks, Pro at $29 a month for 100 monitors and 150,000 checks, and Business at $79 a month for 500 monitors. On SpecStream one request covers every page that holds the data, and you set up no monitors.

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

SpecStreamParallelExaTavilyPerplexity
Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna60.945.553.047.947.0
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna9694919494
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol9997919295

How to switch from Visualping

Write the data you want in plain words, in place of the pages you add and the alerts you read today. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Every US state attorney general settlement over a data breach in 2026, with the state, the company, the amount and the date", "count": 25}'

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance.

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Frequently asked questions

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How much does Visualping cost?
Visualping costs $0 a month on Free, $14, $35 or $70 a month on Personal 1K, 5K and 10K, and $140, $210, $280 or $350 a month on Business 20K to 50K. Billed annually, the Personal plans are $120, $300 and $600 a year and the Business plans $1,200 to $3,000 a year. A Business subscription has to reach $140 a month or $1,200 a year, an additional user costs $60 a year, and Solutions is sold by custom quote.
What is the best Visualping alternative?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the data in plain words with every condition, approve the most the run can cost, and get structured rows in your sheet, your CRM, Slack or your agent. The same request reruns on your schedule with every row labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching.
Is Visualping free?
Visualping has a Free plan at $0 with 150 checks a month on 5 pages for 1 user, checked every 60 minutes at most, with no credit card. A Business trial lasts 14 days. SpecStream gives every new account $10 of credit with no card, which is up to 200 rows at 5¢, with the API and the MCP server included.
Does Visualping have an API?
Yes, on every plan, with up to 5 active API keys and 200 requests per rolling minute on the endpoint behind its diff links. API usage draws on the plan's monthly checks. The SpecStream API takes the request itself: POST /v1/agent/lists with the data you want in plain words returns the columns and the most it can cost, then the rows.
What does a failed check cost?
On SpecStream, $0. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not charged, and the charge never goes past the maximum you approved. On Visualping a check that runs into an error still uses a check, and when the month's checks run out, monitoring pauses until the allowance resets or you move to a larger plan.
Can SpecStream watch for changes?
Yes, on a schedule from hourly to yearly, at 1¢ for each row that comes back unchanged and half the row rate for a changed or new row. Each row is labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook.
Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server?
Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. The MCP server is at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key, and an agent spends from the same balance as your team, inside the limits you set on its key.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  3. SpecStream dataspecstream.ai/data, read Nov 9, 2026
  4. SpecStream bank failuresspecstream.ai/data/bank-failures, read Nov 9, 2026
  5. SpecStream federal rulesspecstream.ai/data/federal-rules, read Nov 9, 2026
  6. SpecStream signalsspecstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
  7. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
  8. Visualping pricingvisualping.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  9. Visualping plans explainedhelp.visualping.io/en/articles/14476033, read Nov 9, 2026
  10. Visualping API referenceraw.githubusercontent.com/webmonitoring/visualping-api-skill/develop/reference/api-reference.md, read Nov 9, 2026
  11. Visualping termsvisualping.io/terms/, read Nov 9, 2026
  12. Distill pricingdistill.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  13. Sken.io pricingsken.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
  14. DiffHook pricingdiffhook.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026