Is Versionista Free for Tracking Website Changes?
Versionista routes new monitoring signups to Fluxguard, which lists an ongoing free plan. Here’s what it includes, where its limits apply, and what existing users should check.
Short answer: Versionista’s website directs people seeking a new web change monitoring account to Fluxguard. Fluxguard currently lists an ongoing free plan at $0 per month for monitoring three sites per month. That free plan is separate from the seven-day trial offered for paid plans. Existing Versionista customers are told their accounts remain supported, but the public notice does not say that legacy accounts have the same allowance or limits as Fluxguard’s current free plan. Check Versionista’s account notice and Fluxguard’s current pricing before choosing a plan.
What “free” means for a new signup
For new monitoring signups, the relevant offer is Fluxguard’s Free (Gyroscope) plan. Its pricing page describes it as intended for an individual monitoring a few select pages and lists three sites per month. Fluxguard’s site estimate assumes about ten pages per site crawled once daily; it is an estimate, not a promise that every site has the same page capacity. Usage is credit based, so page count, crawl frequency, and optional processing affect how much you can do.
| Free plan item | What Fluxguard lists |
|---|---|
| Price | $0 per month |
| Sites | Three sites per month in the pricing page’s estimate |
| Crawling | Chrome crawling |
| Change detection | Visual, HTML, and text changes |
| Alerts | Instant or daily |
| Users | One |
| Page history | Three stored versions per page |
| Translation | AI translation into English |
The Fluxguard FAQ says each crawled page uses one credit. Optional processing, including AI summaries, translation, and enhanced proxies, can use additional credits. The FAQ also confirms that the free plan preserves three versions per page; after unsubscribing, retention returns to the free-plan level. Confirm current allowances and credit charges on the pricing page and FAQ before setting up broad or frequent monitoring.
Versionista accounts and Fluxguard signups are different cases
Versionista’s homepage says existing customers remain supported and need make no changes. It directs prospective new customers to Fluxguard. That notice does not establish that an existing Versionista account has the same interface, site quota, credits, or history retention as Fluxguard’s current free plan.
If you already use Versionista, check the limits shown in your account or ask support about your specific plan. Do not assume that the listed Fluxguard free allowance applies to a legacy account. If you are signing up now, evaluate Fluxguard’s published free tier as a separate offer.
Is the free plan enough for your monitoring?
It may fit an individual watching a small set of pages when three stored versions per page and the listed site estimate are enough. Consider these questions before relying on it:
- How many pages and how often? Every crawled page consumes a credit, and the three-site figure is based on an approximate daily crawl of roughly ten pages per site.
- How much history do you need? The free tier keeps three versions per page. That can be limiting when you need to compare changes over a longer period.
- Who needs access? The free plan lists one user, so it may not suit a team workflow.
- Which alerts do you need? Instant and daily alerts are listed. Versionista’s tutorials describe daily summary emails by default and instant alerts that can be enabled page by page; those legacy instructions do not guarantee identical settings on every Fluxguard plan.
- Will optional analysis use credits? The FAQ identifies extra credit use for options such as AI summaries, translation, and enhanced proxies.
For more users, longer retention, or frequent crawling, compare the current paid plan’s credit allowance, crawl frequency, and retention. Fluxguard’s paid plans begin with a seven-day free trial; according to its pricing page, billing starts after the trial unless you cancel. That trial is not the same as the continuing $0 plan.
Monitoring options explained
Website change services can report several kinds of differences. Fluxguard lists visual, HTML, and text detection on its free plan. Visual monitoring helps catch rendered layout or image changes; HTML monitoring catches markup changes; text monitoring focuses on page wording. The best match depends on what counts as a meaningful change for your use case.
Versionista’s tutorials describe additional monitoring workflows: configure summary or instant email alerts, watch for additions or deletions of specific phrases on HTML pages, and use filters to reduce irrelevant changes. Its new-page discovery tutorial says the legacy Versionista feature can find up to 50 URLs per scan, with a cap of 150 newly found URLs per monitored site, and lets users choose whether to monitor them. Those are Versionista tutorial details, not confirmed Fluxguard free-plan limits or feature guarantees.
Cost and reliability considerations
The free plan has no monthly charge, but the practical limit is its credit allowance and retention. A daily crawl across more pages consumes credits faster than a small, occasional watch list. Extra processing may consume more credits as well. Estimate your workload using the page’s stated assumptions, then review actual usage in your account.
For monitoring that supports operational decisions, decide how you will respond when a crawl fails, a page changes temporarily, or an alert is missed. Keep a record of the pages and alert settings you rely on, inspect the service’s current usage and account status, and validate important changes against the live page. The public plan details do not establish a particular change-detection accuracy or uptime figure.
ScreenshotNeo: an alternative for capturing page changes
If your goal is to save clean visual snapshots for a developer workflow, ScreenshotNeo is a website screenshot API and MCP server. It is an alternative to try first when you need screenshots rather than an ongoing change-monitoring history: one GET request returns an image or PDF, and its capture flow accepts cookie banners and removes more than 60 known consent platforms, newsletter popups, and chat widgets before capture. Each cleanup step can be turned off. Bot checks, blank pages, timeouts, failed loads, and cache hits are not billed, and responses report the page verdict and billing status.
ScreenshotNeo is not a replacement for a monitoring service’s stored change history and alerts. Its API can capture screenshots, and its MCP server provides take_screenshot, get_page_info, and capture_pdf tools for AI agents including Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients.
Or skip the browser setup
Use a single API request to capture a page as WebP. See the ScreenshotNeo API documentation for the full options and parameter reference.
curl -G "https://api.screenshotneo.com/v1/shot" -d access_key=YOUR_API_KEY --data-urlencode url=https://versionista.com/ -o shot.webpCookie banners, popups, and chat widgets are removed before the shot. Bot checks, blank pages, and failed loads are never billed. An MCP server lets AI agents take screenshots. The free plan includes 1,000 screenshots a month with no card; paid plans start at $5 for 3,000. Sign up for ScreenshotNeo’s free plan.
Common questions
Does Versionista still accept new monitoring signups?
Its homepage directs people seeking new accounts to Fluxguard. Existing Versionista customers are told their accounts remain supported.
Is Fluxguard’s seven-day trial the free plan?
No. Fluxguard lists a separate $0 monthly tier. The seven-day trial is for paid plans, which begin billing after the trial unless canceled.
Can I keep more than three versions on the free tier?
The current FAQ says the free plan preserves three versions per page. Check current plan terms if longer history is required.
Does the three-site allowance mean exactly thirty pages?
No fixed page count is guaranteed by that estimate. The pricing page describes an approximate ten pages per site crawled once per day, while the FAQ explains that usage is credit based.
Will my old Versionista account get Fluxguard’s free limits?
The public notice does not say. Check your legacy account terms or ask support.
Sources
- Versionista homepage: new signup routing and existing-customer notice.
- Fluxguard pricing: free plan, listed features, site estimate, and paid trial terms.
- Fluxguard FAQ: credit usage and version retention.
- Versionista email-alert tutorial: summary and instant alert settings.
- Versionista keyword-monitoring tutorial: phrase monitoring and filters.
- Versionista new-page discovery tutorial: legacy URL discovery behavior.
