Parallel Monitor pricing

You pay for matches, and a quiet run is free

Parallel prices Monitor per execution. An hourly monitor runs 720 times in 30 days, and each run is a check whether it detects an event or ends as monitor.execution.completed with none. Parallel's own best practices list cancelling unused monitors to reduce usage costs.

A SpecStream schedule charges for what it delivers. 20 new matches in a month at 5¢ cost $1, and an hourly run that finds nothing costs nothing. You set a maximum per run and per period when you create the schedule.

The alert arrives as a finished row

A Parallel webhook carries the monitor's ID and an event_group_id. Your code calls the events endpoint, reads output.content, and for fields such as company, amount and round starts a follow-up Task run, at $10 per 1,000 runs on base.

A SpecStream match arrives as the row: each fact you asked for, with its source URL and the time it was read. It meets every condition you wrote, so a funding round, a new executive or a new tender lands in your sheet or your CRM ready to use.

History and new matches from one request

A Parallel monitor starts at its creation date, and the docs say not to use it for historical research. The backfill is a separate Task run.

On SpecStream the same request does both. Run it once and read the rows that exist today, then choose Watch for new ones. Rows you already own are never charged again, and each new row costs its rate once.

Or run the check yourself for $1 per 1,000

When you want to keep the loop in your own code, the Search API answers GET /v1/web-search at $1 per 1,000 searches with speed=fast. An hourly check for 30 days is 720 searches, $0.72, and a search that returns no results costs nothing.

The most accurate web search API

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, 978 of them correct, and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. Every score and its method are on the benchmarks page.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. A saved request reruns hourly to yearly and sends only new and changed records, each value with its source URL and read time, to a signed webhook, Slack or a connected tool. New matches cost 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, and new accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Exa Monitors

Runs an Exa search on a recurring schedule and sends the results to a webhook, at $2 per 1,000 requests of up to 10 results and $1 per 1,000 results above 10. SpecStream sends each new match as a row with the facts you asked for.

Firecrawl /monitor

Runs your search queries on a schedule and bills every check: 2 credits per 10 results, plus 1 credit per result judged. Standard sells 100,000 credits for $99 a month. SpecStream charges for the matches it delivers, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

Visualping

Watches pages you name, sold by checks a month: 1,000 checks for $14 on Personal 1K and 20,000 for $140 on Business 20K, and checks do not roll over. SpecStream watches for new matches anywhere on the web, and for changes on the rows you own.