UptimeGlobe vs Pingdom
The incumbent brand, priced per check bundle — and with no free plan at the end of the trial.
Figures below come from Pingdom’s own pages, checked on .
What Pingdom costs
Synthetic Monitoring
from $16.50/mo
10 uptime checks · 1 advanced check · 50 SMS ($198/yr, billed annually)
Real User Monitoring
from $16.50/mo
100,000 pageviews ($198/yr, billed annually)
Enterprise
Quote
500K–5M+ pageviews a month
Pingdom sells synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring as separate subscriptions sized by quantity; the entry figures above are their annual-billing rates. There is no free plan — they offer a free trial.
For reference, UptimeGlobe is free for 10 monitors with checks from 2 regions, and $10/mo for our Starter plan — the full table is on our pricing page.
Side by side
| Feature | UptimeGlobe | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓10 monitors · 2 regions · status page | —free trial only |
| Multi-region checks on free | ✓2 regions | —no free plan |
| Origin-vs-network diagnosis | ✓on every alert | ? |
| Status page on free | ✓badge + JSON too | —no free plan |
| Charges per responder / seat | —never | —priced by check volume |
| Browser / transaction checks | ✓Pro and up (1,500/mo) | ✓transaction monitoring |
| MCP server for AI agents | ✓paid plans | ? |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
✓ yes · — no · ? not published by Pingdom. Where they publish nothing on an axis we say so rather than assuming the answer.
$19.80 per check, per year
Pingdom’s entry synthetic bundle is $198 a year for ten uptime checks. That works out at $19.80 a year for each thing you watch, before you’ve added a second region or a browser flow.
The same ten checks cost nothing on our free plan, run from one region each (or five of them from two regions), and come with a public status page you’re allowed to use commercially. There’s no trial clock on it — plenty of our users just stay there.
| Ten things you want watched | Pingdom | UptimeGlobe |
|---|---|---|
| First year | $198 | $0 |
| Per check, per year | $19.80 | $0 |
| When the trial ends | Subscribe or stop | Nothing happens |
Pingdom column: their published entry Synthetic Monitoring bundle — 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS alerts at $198/yr on annual billing. UptimeGlobe column: our free plan, which covers 10 monitors from one region each (each extra region counts as one more) with a status page, badge and JSON feed. Pingdom has no free plan; they offer a trial.
The thing you actually need to know at 3am
When a check fails, what you want to know is whose fault it is. Every UptimeGlobe check runs from several regions at once and the results get compared, so the alert arrives already classified: unreachable everywhere points at your origin, unreachable from only some regions points at the route in between.
You also get all 13 alert channels with no per-person fee, public status pages with badges and a JSON feed on every plan, heartbeat monitors that page you when a cron job stops running, TLS expiry warnings, and an MCP server your AI assistant can drive.
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Try the difference on the free plan
10 monitors, checks from 2 regions, a status page you can use commercially, and a diagnosis on every alert. No card.
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