The best Browse AI alternative, answered directly

Short answer: if you used Browse AI to find out when websites change, the best Browse AI alternative is AyeWatch. If you used it to collect rows of data, stay with a scraper such as Browse AI itself, Apify or Octoparse, because AyeWatch does not export data.

The rest of this page explains that answer and covers the questions people tend to ask next.

Why AyeWatch is the answer for most people

Browse AI is a no-code scraper. You train a robot on a page and it extracts structured data on a schedule, into Google Sheets, Airtable or an API. Change monitoring comes from rerunning that robot.

That works, but if the alert is all you need, you are running an extraction pipeline to get a yes or no. AyeWatch goes straight to the alert:

1. Paste the page, or describe a topic.
2. Write the rule as a sentence, such as "tell me when the price goes above $50".
3. Get a short written summary when a change matches the rule.

No recording, no fields to map, and no credits per row.

What does AyeWatch cost?

There is a Free Preview with three runs and no credit card. Pro is $9 a month for up to 50 monitors checked hourly. Pro+ is $19 a month for up to 200 monitors with ASAP mode. Max is $39 and Ultra is $99. Plans are flat, so the bill does not move with how often pages change.

For comparison, Browse AI's free plan gives 50 credits a month, and its Personal plan is $19 a month billed annually. A credit covers 10 extracted rows or one screenshot.

Can AyeWatch watch more than one page?

Yes. One monitor can hold several URLs under a single rule, which suits watching a company's pricing, changelog and careers pages together. Beyond pages, AyeWatch follows topics across more than a billion web sources and watches X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. Browse AI has no topic monitoring across the web.

Is AyeWatch a scraper?

No. It reads pages to decide whether a change matches your rule, then writes a summary. It does not hand back fields or rows, and that is deliberate: the summary is the product.

Where do alerts show up?

Wherever you choose, per monitor: push notifications in the iOS and Android apps, email, Slack, Discord, webhooks signed with HMAC-SHA256, or a REST API.

How do I switch?

There is no import. For each Browse AI robot you only used for notifications, create a Webpages monitor in AyeWatch, paste the same page and describe the change you care about. It takes a couple of minutes per monitor. Leave any robot that feeds a spreadsheet running in Browse AI.

When is Browse AI still the better choice?

When you need the data. Lists of products with prices and ratings, property listings, directories or lead lists that end up in Sheets or Airtable are Browse AI's job. AyeWatch tells you that something changed; it will not hand you the table.

What about other alternatives?

• Apify: best for scraping at scale with code. Free with $5 of monthly usage, Starter from $19 a month plus usage.
• Octoparse: a no-code scraper with a free plan of 10 tasks, Standard from $69 a month billed annually.
• changedetection.io: open source change detection, free to self-host or $8.99 a month hosted.
• Distill: element-level page checks from a browser extension or the cloud, free for 25 monitors.

The answer again

Need alerts: AyeWatch. Need data: keep a scraper. If you are not sure which camp you are in, ask whether anyone opens the spreadsheet your robot fills. If not, you want alerts. AyeWatch's feature comparison with Browse AI has the details in one table.