Competitor monitoring for Shopify stores. Without the repricing engine.
Lurk is a small, well-reviewed repricing tool. If you want alerts when competitors change prices, run promotions, or update their pages, without automation touching your own prices, Beaconmon covers that from free.
Last updated: July 2026
What Lurk costs
The pricing facts, without spin.
Free plan capped at 5 SKUs. $99 and $199/mo tiers add SKU volume and repricing rules.
10 monitors and 1 competitor free forever. Starter at $29/mo unlocks unlimited competitors and Weekly Competitor Report.
Why Shopify stores look for a Lurk alternative
Lurk is built for repricing. Not every store wants automated price changes.
You do not want prices changing on their own.
Lurk is built around automated repricing rules. If you want to see a competitor move and decide your own response, the automation is a feature you will never turn on.
Promotions and banners go untracked.
Lurk watches prices. It has no mechanism for catching a competitor's new sale banner, rewritten product copy, or limited-time campaign. Beaconmon tracks the full page, not just a price field.
Uptime monitoring is a separate subscription.
Lurk has no uptime monitoring at any tier. You would need a second tool just to know when your own store goes down.
The free plan caps out fast.
Lurk's free plan covers 5 SKUs. Beaconmon's free plan covers 10 monitors and 1 competitor with no time limit, and Starter at $29/mo undercuts Lurk's $49/mo entry paid tier for stores that just want monitoring.
What Beaconmon covers instead
Built for stores that want to watch competitors and stay online, not automate pricing decisions.
Free plan: 10 monitors, 1 competitor, forever. No card needed.
Starter at $29/mo, cheaper than Lurk's $49/mo paid entry point.
Monitors promotional copy, sale banners, and content changes alongside price.
Uptime monitoring and SSL expiry alerts included in every plan.
Domain expiry alerts at 30, 14, and 7 days.
Weekly Competitor Report: a weekly Slack or email summary of every competitor change.
No repricing automation. You decide what to do with the information.
Want to track competitor prices specifically? See how competitor price tracking works in Beaconmon →
Where Lurk still wins
Be honest about this. If Lurk is the right fit, we will say so.
Rule-based auto-repricing.
Lurk is rated 4.6 stars from real merchants using it for repricing. If you want your Shopify prices to adjust automatically when a tracked competitor moves, Lurk does that and Beaconmon does not.
"Any website" price matching.
Lurk's crawler is not limited to Shopify-to-Shopify comparisons. It can match and track prices against marketplaces and non-Shopify competitor sites with automated product matching, rather than the manual CSS selectors Beaconmon relies on for each monitored page.
Purpose-built for repricing at small scale.
For stores that want hands-off price automation without configuring rules across a large catalog platform, Lurk's tiering (free at 5 SKUs, up to $199/mo) is scoped for smaller repricing use cases.
Common questions
Does Beaconmon auto-reprice my Shopify products like Lurk does?
No. Beaconmon monitors competitor pages and alerts you when something changes. Lurk automatically adjusts your product prices based on rules you configure. If you want automation, Lurk is the right tool.
Does Beaconmon match competitor products across any website like Lurk does?
No. Beaconmon uses CSS-selector targeting you configure per monitored page. Lurk's automated matching across marketplaces and non-Shopify sites saves setup time if your competitors are not all on Shopify.
Is Beaconmon a good replacement for Lurk if I only want monitoring?
Yes. If you want to know when a competitor changes their price, runs a promotion, or updates their website without any auto-repricing, Beaconmon covers that from free (or $29/mo for unlimited competitors). Lurk's paid tiers start at $49/mo and are priced around the repricing automation.
Can I run Beaconmon and Lurk together?
Yes. Use Beaconmon to monitor promotions, content changes, and your own store's uptime. Use Lurk for automated repricing on your core catalog. They cover different parts of the same workflow.
Try Beaconmon free.
10 monitors free forever. 14-day Growth trial, no card required.
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