Competitor price monitoring and market intelligence, as rows.

1How do I read competitor prices as data?

Give /price up to 20 domains or pricing page URLs. For a domain, it finds the pricing page. It returns every plan, tier, billing period, add-on, trial and discount the page shows, read as a visitor in the country you name. The example below is a real call for three sites as a visitor in the United Kingdom sees them.

curl https://api.crawl4ai.com/price \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWL4AI_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sites":["hubspot.com","semrush.com","canva.com"],"country":"gb"}'

{"recipe":"price","rows":[
 {"provider":"Hubspot","domain":"hubspot.com","country":"gb","status":"ok",
  "url":"https://www.hubspot.com/pricing","currency":"GBP",
  "items":[
   {"name":"Starter","rank":1,"free":false,
    "price":{"amount":7.0,"currency":"GBP","period":"month","billing":"monthly",
             "unit":"seat","usd":9.35,"quote":"£7/mo/seat","change":null},
    "features":["Everything in Free","Email and in-app chat support", ...],
    "limits":["Up to 10 users","5,000 credits/month"]}, ...]}, ...],
 "usage":{"units":8}}

Real answer, 10 November 2026, shortened to one plan of one site.

The same call put into a table:

From the call above, read as a visitor in the United Kingdom. Prices change; read them again before you use them.

Each price carries quote, the text on the page it came from. A price that is not on the page is never returned. When a price moved since we last read it, change holds the old value and the time. GET /price/history?domain=hubspot.com&country=gb lists every value we have read on a site.

2How do I get an alert when a competitor changes a price?

Watch (in beta) checks a page and tells you when it changes in the way you describe, in plain words. You get typed facts (what changed, from what, to what) and links to both versions of the page, by webhook, email or a feed your agent reads.

curl https://api.crawl4ai.com/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWL4AI_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://competitor.com/pricing",
       "watch":"a plan gets more expensive, or a plan is removed",
       "every":"auto",
       "notify":{"webhook":"https://you.example/hook","secret":"s3cr3t"}}'

When the page changes, the event looks like this:

{"event":"change","url":"https://competitor.com/pricing",
 "request":"a plan gets more expensive, or a plan is removed",
 "matched":["c1"],"confidence":0.97,
 "summary":"The Pro plan's price went from $49 / month to $59 / month.",
 "facts":[{"kind":"changed","entity":"Pro","field":"price",
           "before":"$49 / month","after":"$59 / month","section":"Pricing > Pro"}],
 "confirmed":true,"cost_credits":3}

Example from the Watch docs, shortened. competitor.com is not a real customer.

A change is delivered 30 minutes after it was first seen, when the page has not gone back. With every: "auto" the page is checked as often as it really changes, at least once a day. A paused monitor keeps its history and costs nothing.

3How do I see who ranks on Google for my category?

/serp returns Google's results page as data: the true rank of each result, every block Google showed, and the place the page was localised to. A real call for "crm software pricing" as seen from the United Kingdom:

curl "https://api.crawl4ai.com/serp?q=crm+software+pricing&country=gb&num=10" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWL4AI_KEY"

{"blocks":["ai_overview","organic","people_also_ask","related_searches"],
 "results":[
  {"position":1,"position_absolute":2,"domain":"expertmarket.com",
   "title":"How Much Does CRM Software Cost? Pricing Guide",
   "url":"https://www.expertmarket.com/uk/crm-systems/crm-software-cost"},
  {"position":2,"domain":"zoho.com","title":"Zoho CRM Pricing and Editions - Free for 3 users", ...},
  {"position":3,"domain":"pipedrive.com","title":"CRM Pricing Plans | Affordable CRM Software Costs", ...}, ...],
 "people_also_ask":["What is the average cost of a CRM software?","How much does a CRM cost?", ...],
 "pages":{"asked":1,"got":1,"missing":[]},"ms":1542}

Real answer, 10 November 2026, shortened.

position is the rank among the organic results. position_absolute counts every numbered item on the page, as a rank tracker does. Run the same query every week and you have a share-of-search table for your category.

4What about launches, reviews and other pages?

For any page without a ready call, /extract reads it and returns the fields you describe in plain words, checked against a JSON schema you give. For example: the plans on a page that /price does not read, the features on a changelog page, or the job titles on a careers page.

curl https://api.crawl4ai.com/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWL4AI_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://competitor.com/changelog",
       "instruction":"each release: its date, its title and the features it added",
       "schema":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"object","properties":{
         "date":{"type":"string"},"title":{"type":"string"},
         "features":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string"}}},"required":["title"]}}}'

Ready-made scrapers for named sites (shops, review sites, launch sites) are on the recipes page.

5What does market monitoring cost?

From the /price and Watch docs and GET /v1/prices, read 10 November 2026. 1 credit = $0.001 at list price.

Example, not a measurement: 20 competitors read once a week (about 4 runs a month) is 20 × 5 × 4 = 400 credits. Watch on the same 20 pages, checked once a day (every: "1d"), is about 20 × 30 = 600 credits, plus 3 for each change. Together about 1,000 credits a month, which is the free plan's monthly credit. Starter is $10 a month for 10,000 credits. See pricing.

6Can you run it for us?

Yes. On Enterprise we design, build and run a pipeline for one job: competitor prices, launches and reviews across hundreds of sites, delivered as a daily table with changes flagged, to your warehouse, bucket, webhook or API. A dedicated fleet is quoted on your volume, billed yearly.