Price drop alerts
Paste a product link, select the price on the page, and SiteMonit checks it on a schedule. When the number drops, you get a price drop alert with the before and after.
Works on most stores. Alerts by email, Telegram, Slack or webhook.
Amazon-only trackers and marketplace apps depend on a price API that only a few large retailers publish. SiteMonit doesn't need one: it renders the page in a real Chrome browser and reads the price straight off it. A small shop or a page behind a login works the same way.
Click the price once in the element picker and SiteMonit tracks that number, not the whole page. A rotating banner or a recommended-products strip won't trigger a false price change notification.
A price drop alert shows the old price and the new price side by side, with a link to the diff viewer, so you can act without reopening the store to check what changed.
The same flow whether you're watching one product or tracking price drops across a dozen retailers.
Step 1
Any page with a visible price: a store, a marketplace listing, a booking page.
Step 2
Use the element picker to click the specific number. SiteMonit ignores everything else on the page.
Step 3
Every 15 minutes on the free plan, down to every 2 minutes on higher-tier plans. Use a faster interval for a flash sale, a slower one for a big purchase.
Step 4
Email, Telegram, Slack, Discord or webhook. Every alert links to a diff viewer showing exactly what changed.
A product page has one number you actually care about and a dozen that just create noise.
A screenshot tells you a page looks different. A diff tells you what the number actually did.
$79.99 becomes $64.99 — the word-level diff shows that as a direct substitution, instead of two screenshots you compare by eye.
Some stores raise the crossed-out original price and leave the actual charge unchanged, so the discount looks bigger without the price you pay moving. Watching the real price element catches that.
Every alert is a timestamped record. Over a few months that becomes an actual history of how a seller prices an item — whether it cycles weekly or rarely moves at all.
Say you're waiting on a washing machine that's listed at three different retailers.
You check three tabs every few days, half-remember what the price was last time, and buy whenever it feels low enough. A short markdown between your visits gets missed completely.
You set a price drop alert on all three listings. After a few weeks of alerts, a pattern shows up: one retailer cuts the price every Thursday and puts it back up by Monday. Now you know when to buy instead of guessing.
Watching a handful of items they actually intend to buy — an appliance, a flight, a piece of furniture — and waiting for the number to move instead of checking manually every day.
Checking competitor pricing across multiple sources to catch a temporary markdown worth reselling, or to know the moment a supplier's price shifts enough to affect margin.
Watching competitor prices on their own SKUs so a manual re-price doesn't lag days behind the market, without paying for a full repricing platform.
Some prices are personalized or region-locked: a store can show a different number based on account history or location than the one SiteMonit's check sees. Treat a price drop alert as a reason to go look, not a guarantee of what you'll be charged at checkout.
A few large retailers run aggressive bot protection that blocks most automated checking, SiteMonit included — an optional Cloudflare bypass helps with some, but not all. When a page can't be fetched, the check reports that plainly instead of silently showing no change.
SiteMonit alerts you; it does not buy anything on your behalf. On the free plan's 15-minute check interval, a short flash sale can start and end entirely between two checks — a faster paid interval narrows that window but can't close it completely.
Does SiteMonit work as an Amazon price drop alert?
Yes. SiteMonit reads the price the way your browser renders it, so it works on Amazon product pages like most other stores. One caveat: some categories show personalized pricing, so a check may not always match the number in your own account.
Is it free to track price drops?
The free plan covers 5 pages with checks every 15 minutes and 500 checks a month, no card required. Paid plans start at $11.99 a month ($9.99 billed annually) for 10 pages every 15 minutes, up to 500 pages every 2 minutes on the highest tier.
How quickly will I get a price drop alert?
The alert goes out on the first check that sees the new number: as often as every 2 minutes on higher-tier plans, every 15 minutes on the free and entry plans. A shorter interval matters more for a fast-moving flash sale.
Can I use this as a price tracker on any website, not just big marketplaces?
Yes, that's the main difference from most price trackers. Tools that only support a fixed list of big retailers rely on public price data. SiteMonit opens the page in a real browser and reads the element you selected, so small shops and niche retailers work the same way large marketplaces do.
Can I ignore small price changes?
Yes. Set a change threshold so a one-cent adjustment doesn't trigger a price change notification. That helps on pages where the number shifts slightly between loads for reasons unrelated to an actual price change, such as currency conversion.
Will the alert show the exact price change, or just that something moved?
It shows the old price and the new price directly, plus a link to the diff viewer where the change is highlighted. You get the before and after numbers without reopening the store to compare against memory.
Does SiteMonit buy the item automatically when the price drops?
No. SiteMonit only monitors and alerts; it doesn't place orders or touch a store's checkout. When a price drop alert arrives, you decide whether to buy and complete the purchase yourself.
Free plan, no card. See also restock alerts and competitor monitoring.