Cheapest Pingdom alternatives, starting at free

Pingdom's price is not public

Our scenario: single user, monthly billing. Pingdom's Synthetic Monitoring is priced by quantity tier — starting at 10 uptime checks and 1 advanced check, scaling to 30,000 uptime checks — but the dollar amount is rendered dynamically on the page and never shown as a plain number in our data. Real User Monitoring is priced the same opaque way, by pageview volume from 100,000 up to 1 billion pageviews a month. Both include status pages, SMS/voice alerting, and pageview or API data export. That opacity is itself the reason to shop around: every product below tells you the number upfront.

The free-forever floor: Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma is fully free, open-source and self-hosted — the zero-cost alternative to every paid monitor in this category. It runs via Docker or Node on your own server, includes status pages, and costs nothing recurring beyond the server you already have. It's the honest bottom of this market: no seat, no monitor cap, no card required, at the cost of running and patching it yourself.

Named prices, real tiers

UptimeRobot's Free plan covers 50 monitors on a 5-minute interval with basic status pages; Solo is $10/month ($9/month billed annually, $108/year) for 10-50 monitors on a 60-second interval; Team is $41/month ($35/month billed annually, $420/year) for 100 monitors on a 30-second interval with 3 login seats; Scale is $77/month ($65/month billed annually, from $780/year) for 200-500 monitors on a 15-second interval. Better Stack's Free plan gives 10 monitors and heartbeats plus 1 status page with Slack and email alerts; its Responder plan is $34/month per licence ($29/month billed annually, roughly 2 months free) and adds incident management and on-call scheduling.

Pulsetic's Free plan covers 10 monitors on a 5-minute interval across 3 regions with 3 status pages; Solo is $9/month ($90/year billed annually) for 10+ monitors on a 60-second interval across 5 regions; Team is $19/month ($190/year billed annually) for 50+ monitors across 15 regions; Organization is $49/month ($490/year billed annually) for 300+ monitors with 5 years of history.

Price-only and currency caveats

Our research hasn't confirmed capability data for two more products, so they're named on price alone: StatusCake's Superior plan is $24.49/month ($20.41/month billed annually, $244.92/year) and Business is $79.99/month ($66.66/month billed annually, $799.92/year); Hyperping's Pro plan is $29/month and Business is $89/month, both on top of a free Hobby tier. Oh Dear prices in euros rather than dollars, with no confirmed USD conversion in our data: Solo is €15/month for up to 2 sites and servers, Solo Plus is €29/month for 5, Freelance is €49/month for 10, Studio is €99/month for 25, scaling in tiers up to Scale at €399/month for 200 sites — it does include status pages, SSL monitoring, heartbeat/cron checks and API access, but treat the price as a euro number, not a dollar one, until we verify a US rate. Site24x7 is also sold in this category, but our research turned up no usable pricing or feature data for it yet, so it's left out of the comparison rather than guessed at.

Choosing on check interval and region, not just price

Once you're past the free tier, the number that actually differentiates these products is check interval and region count, not the sticker price alone: UptimeRobot's Free plan checks every 5 minutes, its Solo plan drops to 60 seconds, and Team and Scale go to 30 and 15 seconds respectively. Pulsetic follows a similar curve, from a 5-minute free interval down to 30 seconds on its Team and Organization plans, with region coverage rising from 3 regions on Free to 15 on Team and Organization. Better Stack's Responder plan is priced per licence rather than per monitor, which matters once you need incident management and on-call routing rather than just a check-and-alert loop — that's a different job from the monitor-count pricing every other product in this category uses.