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BObservability, incident management and status pages for engineering teams
Free, from $25/mo
Pingdom vs UptimeRobot
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Pingdom if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you're in its core audience: web developers, web hosting providers
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Choose UptimeRobot if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you want the lower entry price ($12/mo vs $16.5/mo)
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: developers, devops teams
Side by side
Feature Pingdom UptimeRobot
Pricing modelFree trialFreemium
Starting price$16.5/mo$12/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retention—Kept only as long as necessary for policy purposes, unless law requires longer
Security and compliance—SOC 2
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android, API
CompanySolarWinds Worldwide, LLC—
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
U UptimeRobot
- HTTP, keyword, ping, port, UDP and API monitors
- Cron job heartbeat monitoring
- SSL certificate and domain expiry alerts
- DNS record change monitoring
- Multi-location checks from four regions
- Second data center re-check to prevent false alerts
- Branded status pages with custom domain and subscribers
- Alerts via SMS, voice, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty and webhooks
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
| Team size | Pingdom | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | no published plan | $12 Solo |
| 5 people | no published plan | $39 Team |
| 20 people | no published plan | $39 Team |
What the free plans include
Pingdom
No free plan.
UptimeRobot
- 50 monitors
- 5 min. monitoring interval
- Only 5 integrations
- Basic status pages
All plans and prices
Pingdom
Synthetic MonitoringTiered by quantity
Real User MonitoringTiered by pageviews
EnterpriseCustom
UptimeRobot
Free$0/month
Solo$12/month billed annually ($13 monthly)
Team$39/month billed annually ($46 monthly)
Scale$79/month billed annually ($98 monthly)
EnterpriseCustom
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
UptimeRobot
- Free plan includes 50 monitors for commercial use
- Wide range of monitor types including UDP, DNS and heartbeat
- Status pages included on every plan
- API, CLI and MCP access plus Android and iOS apps
- Free plan checks only every 5 minutes
- SSL monitoring only on paid plans
- SMS and voice credits not included on Free and don't renew
- Free plan has no login seats
More comparisons
Other options to consider
BB
Free, from $25/mo
B
Observability, incident management and status pages for engineering teams
Monitoring & observabilityFree planAPI
S
SS
From $9.99/mo
Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 11, 2026. Editorial policy