11 Best Pingdom Alternatives to Monitor Your WebSites (Free&Paid) 2020

Pingdom originally was a Swedish monitoring SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company and later on was acquired by SolarWinds (a popular network management and monitoring company).

Pingdom provides a variety of services, including website up-time monitoring, website analysis and alerts in the event of downtime or other issues, site-related reports, speed testing of your website (i.e how fast the website loads etc).

Though Pingdom is probably the most well-known of the website monitoring companies around, many other online options are offering high-quality and similar services besides Pingdom.

Here are 11 of the best alternative website monitoring SaaS providers besides Pingdom. Note that the list below is in no particular order.

Freshworks-Freshping

Freshworks-Freshping Features:

• Instant Downtime Alerts
• Multi-Channel Notification
• Free Public Status Pages
• Global Locations for Website Status Checks
• Multi-User Logins

Freshworks-Freshping Pricing:

• Sprout: Free service, offering 50 checks, no option to add checks.
• Blossom: $11 each month, billed each year, 60 checks. Able to add more checks and to try for free. 12 Months Data Retention.
• Garden: $36 each month, billed each year, 80 checks. This can be tried for free too, and it can have checks added to it. 24 Months Data Retention
• Estate: $72 each month, billed annually, 100 checks, with the option to add more. Can’t be tried for free yet.

Uptime

Uptime Features:

• Time reports for server response and uptime.
• Email reports on a monthly, weekly or daily basis. Look up the history of website uptime.
• 30 global locations can monitor your website.
• Limitless capabilities to monitor transactions, HTTP(s), Ping, TCP, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Email, DNS, API, SSH and more.
• Alerts are sent via push notifications, SMS, Twitter, web-hooks and email.
• Website virus checks.

Uptime Pricing:

• Basic: $15/month (billed annually) or $19 billed monthly, 21-day free trial available, 10 checks, 4-month history retention
• Superior: $49/month (billed annually) or $60 billed monthly, 21-day free trial available, 60 checks, 12-month history retention
• Business: $89/month (billed annually) or $110 billed monthly, 21-day free trial available, 100 checks, 24-month history retention
• Enterprise: $229/month (billed annually) or $285 billed monthly, 21-day free trial available, 300 checks, 24-month history retention

StatusCake

StatusCake Features:

• Uptime Monitoring—Test availability globally with HTTP, TCP, DNS, SSH, PUSH, PING, HEAD and SMTP
• Server Monitoring—RAM, Disk, CPU thresholds-exceeded alerts
• Domain Monitoring—Alerts for domain renewal or domain name record changes
• Page Speed Monitoring—Monitor page loading speeds globally
• SSL Monitoring
• Virus Scanning
• etc

StatusCake Pricing:

• Free: 10 Uptime Tests, 1 Page Speed Test
• Superior: $20.41/month (billed annually) or $24.49/ billed monthly, 100 Uptime Tests, 15 Page Speed Tests, free 7-day trial available.
• Business: $66.66/month (billed annually) or $79.99/ billed monthly, 300 Uptime Tests, 30 Page Speed Tests, free 7-day trial available.
• Enterprise: Scalable monitoring capabilities. Customizable plans and features such as continuous check-rates and enhanced support options. Contact StatusCake for pricing options.

GTmetrix

GTmetrix Features:

• Assess webpage’s Total Page Size, Total Number of Requests and Page Load Time
• Run monthly, weekly or daily tests of your webpages
• 7 countries and 28 servers: USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India and the UK
• Mobile webpage optimization, fast loading on all devices
• Device Simulation, screen resolution simulation etc
• Etc

GTmetrix Pricing:

• All priced plans save 15% when billed annually, discounts for 6-month or quarterly cycles
• Basic: Free, 3 Monitored URLs, 20 Daily API Credits
• Bronze: $14.95/month, 10 Monitored URLs, 100 Daily API Credits
• Silver: $49.95/month, 20 Monitored URLs, 500 Daily API Credits
• Gold: $149.95/month, 50 Monitored URLs, 1500 Daily API Credits
• Custom: Fully customizable for monitored and saved URLs, Daily API Credits and unlimited Saved Filters

Site24x7

Site24x7 Features:

• WebSite monitoring
• Server/Application Monitoring
• Network Monitoring
• Application Performance Monitoring
• Root Cause Analysis
• Reports & Alerts
• REST/SOAP API monitoring
• Etc

Site24x7 Pricing:

Separate plans for Website Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Infrastructure and Managed Service Provider services.

All-In-One Plans Include:

• Free: No time limit, Monitor Uptime – 5 URLs/Servers | Email Notifications
• Pro: $35/month (billed annually), 40 basic monitors, 500 MB logs
• Classic: $89/month (billed annually), 100 basic monitors, 1M RUM Pageviews/10 sites
• Elite: $225/month (billed annually), 250 basic monitors, 1 GB logs
• Enterprise: $449/month (billed annually), 500 basic monitors, 500 SMS/Voice Credits a month
• Options available for enterprise customers who monitor over 50,000 servers/websites per account.

Dareboost

Dareboost Features:

• Performance Test—Test reports show user experience and performance metrics
• Web Page Analysis—Optimize webpage through SEO, Security through Performance and 130+ quality control measures
• Performance Synthetic Monitoring—Track webpage speeds and detect slowdowns
• Etc

Dareboost Pricing:

• Paid service only. If you opt to be billed annually, then you get 2 months free.
• Business: $68/month or $57/month (billed annually), 1 monitor test daily
• Performance: $427/month or $356/month (billed annually), 48 monitor tests daily
• Configure your plan: $42/month or $35/month (billed annually), variable monitoring

Uptime Robot

Uptime Robot Features:

• Check website with ping, keywords, TCP ports and HTTP(s)
• Get alerts via voice call, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, SMS, push
• Downtime verification
• Customized notification settings
• Specify times to not be monitored
• Use REST API to perform practically all tasks
• Etc

Uptime Robot Pricing:

• Free Plan: 5-minute monitoring intervals, 50 monitors
• Pro Plan: Ranges from $5.50 monthly or $4.50 (billed annually) for 50 monitors to $746 monthly or $649 billed annually for 20,000 monitors

Service Uptime

Service Uptime Features:

• Monitoring Frequency—Capable of monitoring a service through a variety of intervals, from every minute up to every hour
• Variety of Contacts Supported—Notifications of webpage service outages and statuses over SMS and email
• Variety of Ports Monitored—Monitors PING, DNS Servers, Web Page, IMAP Servers and many other types of servers
• Etc

Service Uptime Pricing:

• Free Monitoring Service: One monitoring service check every half hour or hour, Lifetime Statistics available, Uptime and Performance Reports (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)
• Standard: $4.95/month (2 months free with annual billing), 10 monitors, 3-minute interval checks
• Advanced: $9.95/month (annual billing: 2 months free), 20 monitors, 2-minute interval checks
• Professional: $52.95/month (annual billing: 2 months free), 110 monitors, checks every minute

Site Uptime

Site Uptime Features:

• Monitoring—Multiple, global servers run tests on certain intervals every day to ensure constant accessibility
• Alerting—Notifies you if more than one location detects webpage downtime via SMS or email
• Reports—Tracks webpage failures and logs uptime/downtime reports
• Available monitoring options include HTTP web server, DNS, FTP, SSL, Email services (POP3, SMTP) etc
• Etc

Site Uptime Pricing:

• Free Plan: 1 monitor, uptime reports, public statistics page
• Standard Plan: $10/month, 3 monitors, statistics download
• Pro Plan: $20/month, 6 monitors, Public Status Page

Host Tracker

Host Tracker Features:

• Problem Detection—Detects site issues globally at certain intervals
• Alerts—Many free alert options for webpage issues or downtime
• Etc

Host Tracker Pricing:

• Free: 30-Day Trial, 100 URLs, 10 contacts
• Webmaster: $14/monthly or $9.92/month (1st year), 10 URLs, 5-minute interval checks
• Business: $29/monthly or $18.25/month (1st year), 25+ URLs, 1-minute interval checks
• Enterprise: $99/monthly or $9.92/month (1st year), 150+ URLs, 1-minute interval checks

CULA

CULA Features:

• Sever Monitoring—URLs, FTPs, many server-types
• URL History—Track webpage history
• Ping Intervals—2-minute, frequent webpage monitoring
• Content Checking—Monitor content to thwart hacking attempts

CULA Pricing:

• Free: 50 URLs, 5 servers/FTPs/ICMPs, 10 parameters per server
• Premium: $5 a month, 100 URLs, 10 servers/FTPs/ICMPs, 20 parameters per server
• Advanced: $20 a month, 200 URLs, 50 servers/FTPs/ICMPs, unlimited monitoring history
• Variable monthly rate, Unlimited URLs, Unlimited servers/FTPs/ICMPs, Customizable features