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Checkly vs Pingdom

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Pingdom

$180/yr

38% less than Checkly

Who has a free plan
  • Checklyhas a free plan
  • Pingdomno free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Checkly

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, Pingdom wins. To start without paying, Checkly has a free plan. If you would rather build it, Checkly is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONChecklyMonitoringPingdomMonitoring
Monthly billing$24/moStarter$15/moSynthetic Monitoring
Per year$288/yr$180/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionFlat subscription
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 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 run—
Can you rebuild it?With trade-offsmulti-dayWorth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting
Free alternatives
Checked on10/20/202607/31/2026
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