Pulsetic
Uptime Monitoring · pulsetic.com
Pulsetic is a website monitoring tool that checks uptime and alerts you when your website goes down, with status pages, real user monitoring and multi-protocol checks.
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Top Pulsetic alternatives
We compared 8 products and found 5 cheaper alternatives · vs Pulsetic Solo at $9/mo · scenario: single user, monthly billing, USD.
Pulsetic costs $9/mo on the Solo plan at single user, monthly billing. We found 5 assessed alternatives that are cheaper in this scenario; 2 of them cover at least 75% of the 7 compared capabilities. The cheapest option that covers everything we compared is Hyperping at $0/mo (Hobby plan), 100% less.
| Product | Match | Price | Annual savings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TOP PICK Hyperping Hobby plan | 100% | Free paid from $29/mo how? ⓘ | $108 / year 100% cheaper | |
UptimeRobot Free plan · missing: Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting | 86% | Free paid from $10/mo how? ⓘ | $108 / year 100% cheaper | |
Better Stack Free (for personal projects) plan · missing: Keyword monitoring, Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting, API access | 57% | Free paid from $34/mo how? ⓘ | $108 / year 100% cheaper | |
StatusCake Free plan · missing: Keyword monitoring, SMS & voice alerts, Heartbeat / cron monitoring | 57% | Free paid from $24.49/mo how? ⓘ | $108 / year 100% cheaper | |
Uptime Kuma Self-hosted (free) plan · missing: SSL monitoring, Keyword monitoring, SMS & voice alerts, Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting, API access, Heartbeat / cron monitoring | 14% | Free how? ⓘ | $108 / year 100% cheaper |
Which Pulsetic alternative for which situation
Picked by the numbers in this scenario — same subtype unless stated, assessed products only.
- Best full coverage
- Hyperping — $0/mo (Hobby plan) · covers 100%
- Best free plan
- Hyperping — $0/mo (Hobby plan) · covers 100%
- Best open source or self-hosted
- Uptime Kuma — $0/mo (Self-hosted (free) plan) · covers 14%
- Need status pages, SSL monitoring, keyword monitoring, SMS & voice alerts, slack/teams/pagerduty alerting, API access or heartbeat / cron monitoring?
- Hyperping — from $0/mo (Hobby plan)
What you give up
Capabilities Pulsetic has that the top alternatives lack.
- Keyword monitoring — Alert when a specific keyword disappears from a monitored page.Missing from Better Stack, StatusCake.
- SMS & voice alerts — Get downtime alerts by text message or phone call.Missing from StatusCake.
- Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting — Send alerts to Slack, Teams, or PagerDuty.Missing from UptimeRobot, Better Stack.
- API access — Manage monitors programmatically via an API.Missing from Better Stack.
- Heartbeat / cron monitoring — Monitor that a scheduled job or cron task ran on time.Missing from StatusCake.
Feature comparison
Pulsetic vs the top alternatives, on the 7 compared capabilities.
| Capability | Pulsetic | Hyperping | UptimeRobot | Better Stack | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status pages from Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSL monitoring from Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keyword monitoring from Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| SMS & voice alerts from Solo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting from Solo | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| API access from Organization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Heartbeat / cron monitoring from Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Scenario price cheapest qualifying plan | $9/mo Solo | $0/mo Hobby | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Free (for personal projects) | $0/mo Free |
✓ means the product offers the capability — possibly only on a higher tier than the plan priced below it. The price row shows the cheapest plan that qualifies for our comparison scenario, with its plan name; a $0 free plan may not include every checked capability.
What Pulsetic covers
The capability set used for comparison. Grey entries are not available on self-serve plans.
- ✓ Status pages — from Free
- ✓ SSL monitoring — from Free
- ✓ Keyword monitoring — from Free
- ✓ SMS & voice alerts — from Solo
- ✓ Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting — from Solo
- ✓ API access — from Organization
- ✓ Heartbeat / cron monitoring — from Free
Price ladder
Observed prices from the official pricing page.
Sources
Every claim traces to an official source and a check date.
- https://pulsetic.com/pricing/ (official_pricing, checked 2026-08-31)
Frequently asked
How much does Pulsetic cost?
Pulsetic's Solo plan costs $9/mo in our scenario (single user, monthly billing). A free plan exists.
Is there a free Pulsetic alternative?
Yes. Hyperping has a free plan that covers 100% of the 7 capabilities we compared against Pulsetic.
What is the cheapest Pulsetic alternative?
In our scenario (single user, monthly billing), Hyperping is the cheapest assessed alternative at $0/mo (Hobby plan).
What is the cheapest Pulsetic alternative with Keyword monitoring?
Hyperping covers Keyword monitoring and costs $0/mo (Hobby plan) in our scenario.
Does Pulsetic have a free plan?
Yes. Pulsetic's free plan is limited to 0 seats.
When were these prices checked?
Between 2026-08-26 and 2026-09-12, on the vendors' official pricing pages.