Pingdom
Website uptime, page speed, transaction and real user monitoring
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Pricing
From $16.50/mo
Free trial
Yes
API
Yes
Company
SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC
Platforms
What is Pingdom?
Pingdom is a website monitoring service from SolarWinds. It checks site availability, page speed and multi-step transactions, and it collects performance data from real visitors. Synthetic checks run from more than 100 locations worldwide. Alerts go out by email, SMS and the Pingdom app when a site goes down, slows down or a flow such as login or checkout breaks.
Real User Monitoring (RUM) shows how actual visitors experience a site, broken down by browser, device and geography. It keeps data for 13 months, so you can compare periods. Public status pages and shareable reports help hosting providers and agencies show that they meet their SLAs.
Pricing is modular: you choose a quantity tier for Synthetic Monitoring (uptime checks, advanced checks, SMS credits), RUM (pageviews) or both, billed monthly or annually. A 30-day free trial includes both products. Larger customers can request an Enterprise quote.
Key features
- 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
Use cases
Who it's for
Hosting SLA proof
Web hosts can track client sites against uptime and load-time targets. Public status pages give clients third-party proof that SLAs were met.
Checkout flow testing
E-commerce teams can script transactions such as registration and cart checkout and get an alert when one of these flows breaks.
Pre-release performance checks
Developers can test page speed before a change goes to production and find bottlenecks after it ships.
Marketing site experience
Marketers can track top pages, browsers, sessions and bounce rates to see how visitors experience campaign pages.
Pingdom pricing
From the vendor's site, checked Nov 11, 2026. Prices change — confirm on their pricing page.
| Plan | Synthetic Monitoring | Real User Monitoring | Enterprise |
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| Price | Tiered by quantitybilled monthly or yearly | Tiered by pageviewsbilled monthly or yearly | Custom quotebilled yearly |
| Pageviews | — | From 100,000 | 500K to over 5M a month |
| Users | Unlimited | Unlimited | — |
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How Pingdom compares
- At $16.50/mo, Pingdom starts cheaper than 1 of 3 similar tools with published prices (median $14.25).
- Pingdom has no free plan, while 2 of the 3 alternatives below have one.
| Tool | Starts at | Free plan | Free trial | API | Open source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPingdom | $16.5/mo | — | — | |||
U UptimeRobot | $12/mo | — | — | Pingdom vs UptimeRobot | ||
B Better Stack | $25/mo | — | — | Pingdom vs Better Stack | ||
S Sucuri | $9.99/mo | — | — | — | — | Pingdom vs Sucuri |
The closest alternatives in our directory by category. “Starts at” is the cheapest paid plan per month, as each vendor lists it.
Pros and cons
Strengths
- 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
Limitations
- No free plan, only a trial
- SMS alerts are capped per tier
- Infrastructure, APM and log monitoring are separate SolarWinds products
Pingdom FAQ
Does Pingdom have a free trial?
Yes. It offers a fully functional 30-day free trial that includes both Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring.
How is Pingdom priced?
You pick a quantity tier for Synthetic Monitoring (by number of uptime and advanced checks) and for RUM (by pageviews), paid monthly or annually. Enterprise pricing is available as a quote.
Does Pingdom have an API?
Yes. Pingdom provides an API and webhooks, so you can use its monitoring data in your own systems.
Can I publish a status page?
Yes. Synthetic Monitoring includes public status pages and reports.
How long is RUM data kept?
Real User Monitoring keeps data for 13 months.
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Pingdom
From $16.50/mo