Checkly vs New Relic

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

New Relic

$120/yr

58% less than Checkly

Who has a free plan
  • Checklyhas a free plan
  • New Relichas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Checkly

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, New Relic wins. If you would rather build it, Checkly is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONChecklyMonitoringNew RelicMonitoring
Monthly billing$24/moStarter$10/moStandard
Per year$288/yr$120/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionUsage-based
Free tier1 user; 10 uptime monitors; 1,000 browser/Playwright runs/month; 10,000 API runs/month; 6 public locations; 0 SMS and 0 phone alerts; 7-day raw and 30-day aggregate retention100 GB ingest/month; 1 full-platform user; unlimited basic users; 500 synthetic checks/month; minimum 8-day retention
Additional costsStarter/Team charge $8 per extra block of 25 uptime monitors; browser overages are $6.50/$6.25 per 1,000 and API overages $2.60/$2.50 per 10,000; every parallel location and retry counts, and each 30 seconds of a Playwright suite consumes 1 runOriginal-data ingest above 100 GB is $0.40/GB or $0.60/GB for Data Plus; EU data region adds $0.05/GB, synthetic checks above allowance are $0.005/check, and extended retention/advanced compute add separate charges
Can you rebuild it?With trade-offsmulti-dayWorth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting
Free alternatives+1
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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