Perceivly vs Pope Tech: an alternative for agencies and small businesses
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Pope Tech is a web accessibility platform powered by the WAVE testing engine from WebAIM. It checks websites and Canvas course content, and lists higher education first among the sectors it serves. Like Perceivly, it adds nothing to your site, has a free plan and publishes its prices.
The two tools are close in approach. The differences are in the testing engine, the plan limits, and the features each one adds on top of scanning.
At a glance
| Feature | Pope Tech | Perceivly |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A scanning and monitoring platform powered by WebAIM's WAVE engine, for websites and Canvas courses. | An accessibility monitor: it crawls your site on a schedule, tests each page in a real browser with axe-core against WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 (A and AA), and tracks every issue. |
| Script added to your site | None; it scans your pages. | None. Perceivly never changes your site. |
| Pricing | Free plan. Team from $25 a month billed annually ($30 monthly) for 50 pages. Business Plus from $225 a month billed annually for 500 pages. Professional from $400 a month billed annually. Enterprise and agencies: contact sales. | Published: Starter $29 a month (1 site, 500 pages per check, weekly), Growth $59 (3 sites, 2,000 pages, daily), agency plans $99 to $349. Annual billing is 10 times the monthly price. |
| Free option | Free forever: 1 site, 25 pages a month, 2 users, scheduled scans and reports. | A free single-page scan without sign-up, a Free plan (1 site, 50 pages, monthly) and a 14-day trial with no card. |
| Scanning and monitoring | Scheduled scans; Business Plus adds manual-test tracking, an API, CI/CD and Jira or Asana tickets. | Daily, weekly or monthly crawls. Issues are open, in progress, fixed or won't fix (with a reason), and close on their own when a check no longer finds them. |
| Pages behind a login | Scanning behind a login on Business Plus and up. | Not supported: Perceivly checks public pages only. |
| Manual audits and services | Training and an annual WebAIM AIM score on Professional. | None. Every report lists what still needs a manual review by a person. |
Perceivly prices are in US dollars, from the pricing page.
When to choose which
Pope Tech may suit you better if
- You work in higher education or need to check Canvas course content.
- Your team already knows WAVE and wants the same results at scale.
- You need to scan pages behind a login, run checks in CI/CD or open Jira or Asana tickets.
- You want to track manual test results next to automated ones.
Perceivly may suit you better if
- You run an agency and need white-label PDF reports, client workspaces and a read-only client portal.
- You want WCAG, ADA and EAA (EN 301 549) PDF reports and a hosted accessibility statement.
- You want more pages for the price: Starter checks up to 500 pages per check for $29 a month.
- You want daily checks with email alerts for new critical issues.
Check your own site
Run a free single-page scan to see what Perceivly reports on your site: a score, the main issues with screenshots and how to fix each one. No sign-up.
Questions
- What is the difference between WAVE and axe-core?
- Both are automated accessibility testing engines. Pope Tech uses WebAIM's WAVE; Perceivly uses the open-source axe-core engine. They share many rules but report some issues differently, and neither can find every WCAG issue.
- Do both have a free plan?
- Yes. Pope Tech's free plan covers 1 site and 25 pages a month. Perceivly's Free plan covers 1 site and 50 pages, checked monthly, and the free checker scans any single page without sign-up.
- Can Perceivly scan pages behind a login?
- No. Perceivly checks public pages only and carries no cookies. If you need to scan logged-in areas, Pope Tech offers that on Business Plus and up.
- Will Perceivly make my site compliant?
- No tool can do that on its own. Perceivly helps you find and track the issues automated tests detect, which is only part of WCAG.
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