Contify vs Distill: pricing, capabilities and limits

What the evidence answers

A reading of reviewed official documentation for Contify and Distill. It is not a hands-on test, a ranking or a recommendation of one product.

Price

Contify No public price · earlier capture, recheck before relying on it
- M&CI Platform: Price not verified
Distill From $15/mo · earlier capture, recheck before relying on it
- Free: no subscription charge
- Starter: $15.00 monthly
- Starter: $144.00 annual ($12/mo equivalent)
- Professional: $35.00 monthly
- Professional: $336.00 annual ($28/mo equivalent)
- Flexi: $80.00 monthly

A complete like-for-like price comparison is not established; the next checks say what is missing.

Documented for both

Type of work: Contify Competitor research and monitoring; Distill Page change monitoring
Seats: Contify No per-user licensing fees.; Distill Shared team watchlists and centralised billing are offered on the Enterprise plan.Enterprise: Multiple user accounts
Integrations: Contify Salesforce; HubSpot; Slack; Microsoft Teams; Email; Microsoft SharePoint; Snowflake; Highspot; Seismic; Showpad; Gong; Power BI; SSO: Google, Azure, Okta; Distill Enterprise: API access on request, Webhooks, Import and export of monitors as JSON or CSV

Limits to check

Contify Contify aggregates secondary sources; it does not run surveys or primary research.
Distill Cloud checks are capped per month and counted in 10-second units; browser-extension checks are unlimited.

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on competitors covered.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Contify: source families, monitoring cadence, initial analysis, evidence links and exports; Distill: monitored pages, monthly checks, shortest check interval, alerts and delivery and history kept.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

Recheck Contify's prices on its official pricing page: the reviewed price evidence is older than its review window.
Recheck Distill's prices on its official pricing page: the reviewed price evidence is older than its review window.
Ask Contify about competitors covered; our sources do not establish it yet.

Documented scope and limits; unverified dimensions remain unknown.
Requirement	Contify	Distill
Pricing	No public price	From $15/mo Compare all 5 plans
Who it is for	Market and competitive intelligence on 700,000+ companies, delivered as newsfeeds, dashboards, newsletters and alerts. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify official product information page	Watches chosen web pages for changes from a browser extension, desktop app or Distill's cloud servers. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ
Coverage limits	Contify aggregates secondary sources; it does not run surveys or primary research. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify official product information page	Cloud checks are capped per month and counted in 10-second units; browser-extension checks are unlimited. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ
Source families	News and press release wires; Company websites; SEC filings; Social media; Regulatory portals; Job boards; Review sites (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot); Trade publications; Patent databases; Premium information partners; Internal: call transcripts, SharePoint documents, intelligence shared by email or Slack, LinkedIn posts saved with the Chrome extension Users can also add custom sources: paywalled content they already subscribe to, RSS feeds, specific web pages for change tracking and competitor social handles. Coverage spans 190+ countries and 200,000+ non-English sources with automatic translation. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify official product information page	Not applicable to page change monitoring
Monitoring cadence	A real-time curated newsfeed, plus automated newsletters delivered by email, Slack or Teams. Newsletter frequency options are not stated. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify official product information page	Not applicable to page change monitoring
Type of work	Competitor research and monitoring Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify: official product and plan documentation	Page change monitoring Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ
Initial analysis	The 7-day free trial is configured for your competitors, topics and industry. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify: official product and plan documentation	Not applicable to page change monitoring
Evidence links	Answers from Ask Athena include source links for verification. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify official product information page	Not applicable to page change monitoring
Exports	SWOT analyses, competitor profiles, executive summaries and battlecards from Athena AI; Dashboards; Newsletters; Alerts; Delivery to Slack, MS Teams, Salesforce, Snowflake and email Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify: official product and plan documentation	Not applicable to page change monitoring
Seats	No per-user licensing fees. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify: official product and plan documentation	Shared team watchlists and centralised billing are offered on the Enterprise plan. Starter is labelled ideal for individual usage and Professional ideal for advanced individual usage. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ Enterprise Multiple user accounts
Monitored pages	Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring	Free 25 monitors Starter 50 monitors Professional 150 monitors Flexi 500+ monitors
Monthly checks	Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring	Each reCAPTCHA v2 solved during a cloud check counts as 24 extra checks, and unused checks expire at the end of each billing period. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ Free 1,000 cloud checks per month Starter 30,000 cloud checks per month Professional 100,000 cloud checks per month Flexi 200,000+ cloud checks per month
Shortest check interval	Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring	Local monitors can be set to intervals from 5 seconds. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ Free Every 6 hours Starter Every 10 minutes Professional Every 5 minutes Flexi Every 2 minutes
Alerts and delivery	Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring	Email alerts sent by browser-extension monitors also count toward the email limit. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ Free 30 email or webhook alerts a month (email only), 100 phone push notifications a month, No SMS Starter 2,000 email or webhook alerts a month; Unlimited phone push notifications; 100 SMS a month Professional Unlimited email and webhook alerts, Unlimited phone push notifications, 250 SMS a month Flexi Unlimited email and webhook alerts, Unlimited phone push notifications, 500+ SMS a month
History kept	Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring	Free Not available Starter 10 changes per monitor Professional 20 changes per monitor Flexi 20 changes per monitor
Integrations	Salesforce; HubSpot; Slack; Microsoft Teams; Email; Microsoft SharePoint; Snowflake; Highspot; Seismic; Showpad; Gong; Power BI; SSO: Google, Azure, Okta Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Contify official product information page	Enterprise API access on request, Webhooks, Import and export of monitors as JSON or CSV
Coverage note		Month-to-month. Cancel at any time by closing the account or switching to the free plan. Minimum interval for cloud checks; the monthly cloud check allowance limits how many monitors can run at it. Version history counts tracked changes, not a time period.

1 requirement without reviewed evidence here

Not verified means the reviewed sources do not establish it; it does not mean a product lacks it or that it costs nothing.

Competitors covered Contify: not verified · Distill: not applicable