Distill vs Similarweb: pricing, capabilities and limits

What the evidence answers

A reading of reviewed official documentation for Distill and Similarweb. 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
Similarweb From $199/mo · earlier capture, recheck before relying on it
- Competitive Intelligence: $199.00 monthly
- Competitive Intelligence: $1,500.00 annual ($125/mo equivalent)
- Competitive Intel & SEO & AEO: $399.00 monthly
- Competitive Intel & SEO & AEO: $3,996.00 annual ($333/mo equivalent)
- Competitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads: $649.00 monthly
- Competitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads: $6,504.00 annual ($542/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; Similarweb Traffic and market analysis
Seats: Distill Shared team watchlists and centralised billing are offered on the Enterprise plan.Enterprise: Multiple user accounts; Similarweb Competitive Intelligence: 1 userCompetitive Intel & SEO & AEO: 1 userCompetitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads: 1 user
History kept: Distill Free: Not availableStarter: 10 changes per monitorProfessional: 20 changes per monitorFlexi: 20 changes per monitor; Similarweb Competitive Intelligence: 3 months of historical dataCompetitive Intel & SEO & AEO: 6 months of historical dataCompetitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads: 6 months of historical dataBusinesses & Enterprises: Up to 37 months of historical data

Limits to check

Distill Cloud checks are capped per month and counted in 10-second units; browser-extension checks are unlimited.
Similarweb Premium features require a custom package priced by the sales team.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Distill: monitored pages, monthly checks, shortest check interval, alerts and delivery and integrations; Similarweb: source families 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 Similarweb's prices on its official pricing page: the reviewed price evidence is older than its review window.

Documented scope and limits; unverified dimensions remain unknown.
Requirement	Distill	Similarweb
Pricing	From $15/mo Compare all 5 plans	From $199/mo Compare all 4 plans
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	Competitor traffic research for researchers, analysts and marketers: share of traffic, competitors' growth drivers and competitor moves. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Similarweb Web Intelligence pricing, Entrepreneurs plans
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	Premium features require a custom package priced by the sales team. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Similarweb Web Intelligence pricing, business packages and FAQ
Source families	Not applicable to page change monitoring	Competitive Intelligence Website performance, Traffic and engagement, Customer demographics, Marketing channels overview, Competitor alerts Competitive Intel & SEO & AEO Competitive intelligence: website performance, traffic and engagement, customer demographics, marketing channels overview, competitor alerts; SEO: organic search overview, keyword research, rank tracker, site audit and backlinks; AEO: AI brand visibility for 150 tracked prompts, sentiment, citation analysis and AI traffic Competitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads Ad intelligence: creative and campaign insights, Search and display insights, Advertiser demand signals, Ad spend
Type of work	Page change monitoring Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Distill pricing page, monthly view with FAQ	Traffic and market analysis Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Similarweb Web Intelligence pricing, Entrepreneurs plans
Exports	Not applicable to page change monitoring	The API comes with custom Business packages or can be bought as a standalone product. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Similarweb Web Intelligence pricing, business packages and FAQ Businesses & Enterprises Real-time and bulk APIs, BI tool integrations, MCP for AI workflows, Custom data feeds
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 Enterprise Multiple user accounts	Competitive Intelligence 1 user Competitive Intel & SEO & AEO 1 user Competitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads 1 user
Monitored pages	Free 25 monitors Starter 50 monitors Professional 150 monitors Flexi 500+ monitors	Not applicable to traffic and market analysis
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 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	Not applicable to traffic and market analysis
Shortest check interval	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	Not applicable to traffic and market analysis
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 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	Not applicable to traffic and market analysis
History kept	Free Not available Starter 10 changes per monitor Professional 20 changes per monitor Flexi 20 changes per monitor	Competitive Intelligence 3 months of historical data Competitive Intel & SEO & AEO 6 months of historical data Competitive Intel, SEO & AEO & Ads 6 months of historical data Businesses & Enterprises Up to 37 months of historical data
Integrations	Enterprise API access on request, Webhooks, Import and export of monitors as JSON or CSV	Not applicable to traffic and market analysis
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.	Month-to-month. One user and 6 months of historical data. Self-service plans are cancelled in the platform and stop renewing after the current billing period.