Documentation-based comparison
Distill versus RivalSense
Compare documented scope and conditions. Unknowns remain unknown; different billing units do not establish a cost winner.
What the evidence answers
A reading of reviewed official documentation for Distill and RivalSense. It is not a hands-on test, a ranking or a recommendation of one product.
Price
- 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
- RivalSense From €39.99/mo · earlier capture, recheck before relying on it
- Basic: €39.99 monthly
- Basic: €407.88 annual (€33.99/mo equivalent)
- Pro: €94.99 monthly
- Pro: €959.88 annual (€79.99/mo equivalent)
- Business: €199.99 monthly
- Business: €2,003.88 annual (€166.99/mo equivalent)
A complete like-for-like price comparison is not established; the next checks say what is missing.
Documented for both
- Type of work
- Distill Page change monitoring
- RivalSense Competitor research and monitoring
- Seats
- Distill Shared team watchlists and centralised billing are offered on the Enterprise plan.Enterprise: Multiple user accounts
- RivalSense Basic: 1 email recipientPro: 5 company email recipientsBusiness: Unlimited company email recipients
Limits to check
- Distill Cloud checks are capped per month and counted in 10-second units; browser-extension checks are unlimited.
- RivalSense Each weekly update is a short selection of the most relevant developments, not a complete feed of everything found.
Not verified yet
No reviewed evidence for either product on evidence links.
Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Distill: monitored pages, monthly checks, shortest check interval, alerts and delivery, history kept and integrations; RivalSense: competitors covered, source families, monitoring cadence, initial analysis and exports.
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 Distill's prices on its official pricing page: the reviewed price evidence is older than its review window.
- Recheck RivalSense's prices on its official pricing page: the reviewed price evidence is older than its review window.
- Ask RivalSense about evidence links; our sources do not establish it yet.
| Requirement | Distill | RivalSense |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From $15/mo | From €39.99/mo |
| Who it is for | 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 | Weekly AI-curated briefings on named competitors' product, partnership, event, client, hiring, legal and financial developments. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Coverage limits | 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 | Each weekly update is a short selection of the most relevant developments, not a complete feed of everything found. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Competitors covered | Not applicable to page change monitoring |
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| Source families | Not applicable to page change monitoring | Competitor websites, Social media accounts, Company registers, Job listings, News sites RivalSense says it follows 80+ sources in total. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Monitoring cadence | Not applicable to page change monitoring | Sources are checked daily; a curated update is delivered once a week by email or Slack. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Type of work | Page change monitoring Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ | Competitor research and monitoring Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Initial analysis | Not applicable to page change monitoring | The first competitor update is promised for the day after sign-up. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Exports | Not applicable to page change monitoring | Weekly email updates; Slack integration; Searchable archive of all past updates, with filters Listed on Basic, Pro and Business. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · RivalSense home page and plan cards with Monthly selected |
| Seats | 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
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| Monitored pages |
| Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring |
| Monthly checks | 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
| Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring |
| Shortest check interval | Local monitors can be set to intervals from 5 seconds. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ
| Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring |
| Alerts and delivery | Email alerts sent by browser-extension monitors also count toward the email limit. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ
| Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring |
| History kept |
| Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring |
| Integrations |
| Not applicable to competitor research and monitoring |
| 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. | Counts recipients of the weekly email; logins are not stated separately. |
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.
- Evidence links Distill: not applicable · RivalSense: not verified