Pingdom killed its free plan. Here are the alternatives that didn't.
Pingdom has no free tier and starts at $15/mo for 10 monitors. Compare 7 cheaper Pingdom alternatives — features, pricing, free tiers, and who each is best for.
Pingdom eliminated its free plan entirely. The cheapest option now starts at $15 per month for just 10 monitors, and pricing scales per-check — so costs climb fast as you add endpoints. If you're an indie developer, small business owner, or just someone who wants to know when their website goes down without paying enterprise prices, you need an alternative.
I compared seven Pingdom alternatives across features, pricing, free tiers, check intervals, and monitor types. The table below covers everything you need to pick the right one in minutes. Every pricing figure was verified on 3 August 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page.
| Feature | SurePing Our tool | UptimeRobot | Better Stack | StatusCake | Uptime.com | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (paid) | $10/mo | €13/mo | $24/mo | $20/mo | $20/mo | $15/mo |
| Free tier | 55 monitors | 50 monitors | 10 monitors | 10 monitors | None (trial) | None (trial) |
| Monitors at entry price | 11 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 |
| Fastest interval | 15 sec | 15 sec | 30 sec | 30 sec | 1 min | 1 min |
| Status pages | Yes (free) | Yes (limited free) | Yes (free) | Paid only | Yes | Higher tiers |
| Monitor types | 6 (HTTP, keyword, ping, port, SSL, heartbeat) | 7 (+ DNS) | 6 (+ DNS) | 5 (no heartbeat) | 6 (+ DNS, no heartbeat) | 3 (HTTP, RUM, synthetic) |
| Cron job monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Multi-region checks | No (single region) | Yes | Yes (paid) | Yes | Yes (75+ locations) | Yes (30+ locations) |
SurePing gives you 55 monitors for free — more than any other tool on this list — with all six monitor types (HTTP, keyword, ping, port, SSL, and heartbeat) available on every plan. The first paid tier is $10/month for 11 monitors with 60-second checks, which undercuts UptimeRobot's Solo plan (€13 for 10 monitors) on a month-to-month basis.
The trade-off is that SurePing currently runs checks from a single region. If you need multi-region confirmation to rule out regional routing faults, it's not the right tool today. There's also no native Slack or Discord integration — alerts go out via email, SMS, Telegram, and webhooks (which cover Slack, Discord, and PagerDuty, but require a webhook URL rather than a one-click integration).
Best for: solo developers and small teams who want the most free monitors and the lowest paid pricing, and who don't need multi-region checks yet.
UptimeRobot is the most popular free uptime monitor, and for good reason: 50 free monitors, 20+ integrations (Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty), and a mature product with a long track record. The free tier is restricted to non-commercial use, though — if you're monitoring a business site, you're technically supposed to pay.
The paid tiers start at €13/month (Solo, 10 monitors, 60-second checks). UptimeRobot localizes its currency, so EU visitors pay in EUR at a higher effective rate than US visitors. The page also defaults to annual billing; month-to-month is more expensive than it appears.
Best for: non-commercial projects and teams who want a proven, widely-integrated monitor and don't mind the non-commercial free-tier restriction.
Better Stack bundles uptime monitoring, log management, status pages, and on-call scheduling into a single platform. If you're currently paying for a separate monitoring tool, a logging tool, and an on-call tool, consolidating onto Better Stack can save money and reduce tool sprawl.
The catch is modular pricing: the base monitoring plan is $24/month for 10 monitors, but logs and on-call are separate add-ons. The free tier is small (10 monitors, 3-minute intervals). The UI is excellent and the incident management is strong, but on-call features are lighter than dedicated tools like PagerDuty.
Best for: teams who want monitoring, logging, and on-call bundled together and are willing to pay for consolidation.
StatusCake includes SSL certificate monitoring and domain expiration checks alongside uptime monitoring, which makes it a good fit if certificate management is a priority. Page-speed monitoring is also included.
However, StatusCake has no heartbeat / cron job monitoring, no free status pages (status pages are paid only), and the UI feels dated compared to newer competitors. The free tier is limited to 10 monitors with no status pages.
Best for: teams who want SSL and domain monitoring alongside uptime, and don't need cron job monitoring or a free status page.
Uptime.com offers 75+ global check locations — more than any other tool on this list — and includes Real User Monitoring (RUM) and transaction monitoring for multi-step flows. It's positioned as a business-grade tool with strong SLA and support.
There's no free tier (trial only), and pricing starts at $20/month for 10 monitors, which is higher than most alternatives. There's no heartbeat / cron job monitoring. Uptime.com also blocks AhrefsBot in its robots.txt, which makes it harder to research via SEO tools.
Best for: business teams who need many global check locations and RUM, and have the budget for a business-grade tool.
If you're switching from Pingdom because of pricing, SurePing is the most direct replacement on a cost basis. You get 55 free monitors (Pingdom gives you zero), all six monitor types including cron job monitoring (Pingdom has none of those), and the first paid tier is $10/month versus Pingdom's $15/month.
The honest trade-off: SurePing doesn't have Pingdom's Real User Monitoring, synthetic transaction monitoring, or page-speed waterfall analysis. If you need those features, Pingdom or Uptime.com are better fits. If you need straightforward uptime monitoring with cron job and SSL checks at a lower price, SurePing gives you more for less.
Every pricing figure in this comparison was verified on 3 August 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page. UptimeRobot pricing was captured for a UK/EU visitor in EUR with monthly billing selected; US visitors may see USD pricing. SurePing pricing is in USD. Monitor counts, check intervals, and feature availability reflect each vendor's published plan descriptions as of that date. Vendor pricing changes without notice — confirm current pricing before committing.
Pingdom prices per check, not per plan. The Starter plan at $15/month includes 10 uptime checks, but adding more checks increases the price linearly. Pingdom also bundles Real User Monitoring and synthetic transaction monitoring, which are features most uptime-only tools don't include — you're paying for those features even if you only need basic uptime checks.
Yes. SurePing offers 55 free monitors, UptimeRobot offers 50 (non-commercial use only), and Better Stack and StatusCake each offer 10. SurePing's free tier is the most generous and has no commercial-use restriction.
SurePing, with 55 free monitors at 5-minute intervals. UptimeRobot is second with 50 free monitors, but restricts free-tier use to non-commercial projects.
Yes — SurePing, UptimeRobot, and Better Stack all support heartbeat / cron job monitoring. Pingdom, StatusCake, and Uptime.com do not offer cron job monitoring.
Yes. SurePing, UptimeRobot, and Better Stack all include status pages on their free tiers. StatusCake restricts status pages to paid plans. Pingdom includes status pages on higher tiers only.