Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) vs Visualping comparison

Unique

• Visualizations and rankings based on Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and Product Complexity Index (PCI), with reports by HS classification.
• Monthly international trade data and subnational coverage across 30+ countries available on Pro plans.
• Premium tier adds company-level U.S. Bill of Lading data through a Company Explorer sourced from U.S. Customs.
• REST API with a free tier for historical data and Pro/Premium tokens for the latest datasets, subnational access, and higher query volumes.
• Data downloads in CSV, Excel, or JSON, with bulk access and larger query limits available for subscribers.
• Support for multiple HS revisions (from HS92 through HS2022) with well-documented historical ranges.

Unique

• Monitor any website or selected area for visual, text or HTML/code changes, with AI that flags important changes and sends highlighted before/after screenshots in each alert.
• Flexible scheduling and thresholds: run checks as often as every 5 minutes (or 2 minutes on paid plans) up to weekly, and tune change‑percentage thresholds and double‑check options to reduce false positives.
• Advanced monitoring controls, including screen type (area, full page, mobile or page fold), configurable wait times, proxies, scroll/click/type actions and xPath/selector targeting for tricky elements.
• Multi‑channel notifications delivered to email and SMS by default, with optional Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Google Sheets and more via Visualping for Business integrations.
• Team dashboard and collaboration features for managing many monitored pages, reviewing change history, inviting colleagues and generating scheduled reports; reporting & export are available only on business plans.
• Investment management workflow: monitor price pages, press releases, regulatory approvals, competitor activity, share buybacks, patents and other market‑moving events to build your own web‑native data sets.