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UUptime, SSL, cron and API monitoring with alerts and public status pages
Free, from $12/mo
Pingdom vs Sucuri
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Pingdom if…
- you need an API to build on
- you want to trial it before paying
- you're in its core audience: web developers, web hosting providers
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Choose Sucuri if…
- you want the lower entry price ($9.99/mo vs $16.5/mo)
- you're in its core audience: small business site owners, bloggers
Side by side
Feature Pingdom Sucuri
Pricing modelFree trialPaid
Starting price$16.5/mo$9.99/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CategoryUptime monitoring & status pagesWebsite malware scanning
CompanySolarWinds Worldwide, LLCGoDaddy Mediatemple, Inc.
Full feature lists
P Pingdom
- Uptime checks from over 100 locations worldwide
- Page speed analysis with per-element size and load time
- Transaction monitoring for login, search and checkout flows
- Email, SMS and app alerts
- Real user monitoring by browser, device and geography
- Public status pages and shareable SLA reports
- Maintenance windows
- Pingdom API and webhooks
S Sucuri
- Unlimited manual malware and hack removal
- Cloud-based web application firewall with DDoS protection
- Anycast CDN and caching for faster page loads
- Monitoring for malware, blocklists, DNS, uptime and SEO spam
- Blocklist monitoring and removal
- Server-side file scanner for backdoors and tampering
- SSL certificate support and monitoring
- Free WordPress security plugin and website backups
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Pingdom
Synthetic MonitoringTiered by quantity
Real User MonitoringTiered by pageviews
EnterpriseCustom
Sucuri
Basic Firewall$9.99/mo
Pro Firewall$19.98/mo
Basic Platform$229/yr
Pro Platform$339/yr
Business Platform$549/yr
Junior Dev$999.98/yr
Multi-Site & CustomPrice upon request
Strengths and limitations
Pingdom
- 30-day free trial covers both Synthetic and RUM
- Unlimited users on both products
- Checks run from over 100 global locations
- RUM keeps data for 13 months
- No free plan, only a trial
- SMS alerts are capped per tier
- Infrastructure, APM and log monitoring are separate SolarWinds products
Sucuri
- Every plan includes unlimited manual malware cleanups
- Works with any CMS
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- 24/7 security team
- Each standard plan covers only one site
- First ticket response on the Basic Platform plan can take 30 hours
- Multi-site and enterprise pricing is only available on request
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 11, 2026. Editorial policy