WebSite-Watcher pricing for a business: licenses, updates and seats

WebSite-Watcher pricing looks simple on the shop page: €49 or €299. For a company the real number depends on seats, the update cycle and the machine that has to stay on. This analysis lays out what Aignes charges, what a business actually pays over a few years, and how that compares with a monthly hosted monitor.

The license terms that matter

From Aignes's shop, editions and upgrade policy pages, all prices excluding VAT:

• Free edition. No charge, up to 10 bookmarks, checks no more often than hourly. Aignes says it may be used commercially.
• Personal edition, €49. For private, non-commercial use only.
• Business edition, €299 per license. Required for companies and educational organizations. Adds a scraper, proxy rotation and priority support.
• Volume pricing. €269 per license for 2 to 9, €239 for 10 to 24, €219 for 25 to 99, €199 for 100 or more.
• Updates. The first year of updates is included. After that, a new version with another year of updates costs 50% of the full price. The license itself never expires; you can keep running the last version you were entitled to.

So for a business the Personal price is not an option. The entry point is €299 per user.

Three-year view for a small team

Take a team of three analysts who each need their own copy and want to stay current:

Renewal prices are worked out from Aignes's 50% rule on the volume price; your quote may differ, and you can skip renewals and stay on an older version.

That table leaves out costs that do not appear on the invoice: a Windows machine per seat that stays awake for checks to run, and someone's time keeping filters working when target sites change.

The subscription model alongside it

AyeWatch is a hosted AI monitor priced per month, with no license or update fee. It has a Free Preview with three lifetime runs across up to three topics and no card, and paid plans start at $9 a month. There are no contracts, and you can cancel at any time.

For most operators that is the better choice overall. Nobody has to keep a Windows machine awake, nobody has to maintain filters, and the people who need the news get a short summary of what changed instead of a raw diff.

What the subscription buys that the license does not: checks run in the cloud whether or not a PC is on, iOS and Android apps for alerts, topic monitoring across news, forums, blogs and social platforms, and rules written as plain sentences. Paid plans also add email, Slack, Discord, webhooks and a REST API.

Where the license still wins

For a single power user with a desktop that runs all the time, WebSite-Watcher can be cheaper over several years, especially if they skip update renewals. It also does things AyeWatch's site does not offer: recorded login macros, PDF and Word monitoring, a scraper that exports data, Basic plugins and proxy rotation. If your process depends on those, the license is the right buy.

How to decide

Count the people who need alerts, not the people who configure the tool. If three people need to know when a competitor or supplier page changes but only one maintains WebSite-Watcher, you are paying for a desktop seat plus a forwarding habit. A shared hosted monitor that posts to a Slack channel can replace both. If one specialist does deep extraction work, keep a Business seat for that person.

A practical test: pick the ten bookmarks your team acts on most, try three of them on the AyeWatch Free Preview, then run all ten on a paid plan for a month and compare the alerts. Paid plans can be cancelled at any time. The AyeWatch comparison of the two tools covers the feature gaps in one table.