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Pingdom alternative: A Pingdom alternative with everything included.

Pingdom is a long-established website monitoring service. Uptimecheck puts uptime, checkout flows, page speed, cron jobs, servers and status pages in one account at a fixed price in euros, and imports your Pingdom checks.

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Why teams switch

One fixed price

Start at €9, Professional at €29 and Business at €69 per month billed yearly (€12, €39 and €92 billed monthly), excl. VAT, without extra charges per member or status page.

Import your checks

Paste a Pingdom API token with read access and review every check before anything is created, with its paths, headers and texts to look for.

Status pages included

Every plan includes status pages with subscribers, status updates and visitor statistics, and paid plans add password protection and removable branding.

Alerts where your team is

Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Mattermost, Telegram, PagerDuty, ntfy, Pushover, webhooks and push notifications on every plan.

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Uptimecheck vs Pingdom at a glance

Uptimecheck and Pingdom compared
Compared Uptimecheck Pingdom
Free plan Yes: 5 monitors every 5 minutes, 1 status page; commercial use allowed more for Uptimecheck No, a free trial source for Pingdom
Cheapest paid plan Start: €9 a month billed yearly, or €12 monthly, excl. VAT more for Uptimecheck 16 a month, or 14.33 a month billed yearly, for 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS (currency by region; we saw euros) source for Pingdom
Check locations 3: Stockholm, London and New York more for Uptimecheck 100+ servers worldwide source for Pingdom
Failures confirmed from another location Yes, before any incident opens more for Uptimecheck Yes source for Pingdom
Status pages Every plan (1 on Free), with subscribers; no custom domain more for Uptimecheck Public status pages on every plan source for Pingdom
SMS alerts Paid plans: 50 or 200 credits a month on Professional and Business, packs on any paid plan more for Uptimecheck An SMS quota per plan (50 on the smallest) source for Pingdom
Multi-step and browser checks Yes, multi-step flows, also in a real browser (paid plans) more for Uptimecheck Yes, transaction checks source for Pingdom
Public API REST API and MCP server on Professional and Business more for Uptimecheck Yes source for Pingdom
Company and data location Digitona AB, Sweden; app and data in Stockholm more for Uptimecheck Part of SolarWinds source for Pingdom

Competitor facts are taken from each provider’s own website and were checked on 2 November 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it on their site, not that it’s missing. Plans change: check the source before you decide.

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How to switch

  1. Start a free trial

    Sign up in a minute. No credit card is needed for the 14-day trial of Professional.

  2. Import your checks

    Open Monitors › Import, choose Pingdom and paste an API token with read access. Pick a project and alert channels, and import.

  3. Publish and switch

    Publish a status page, keep both services running for a week, compare the alerts and switch when you are confident.

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Why teams look for a Pingdom alternative

Pingdom has monitored websites for many years. Teams that look for an alternative usually want the rest of their stack in the same place: checkout flows, cron jobs, DNS records, servers and a status page their customers can check.

That is the gap Uptimecheck fills. Every plan includes status pages with visitor statistics, SSL and domain monitoring and email reports, and the price stays fixed as your team grows.

What Uptimecheck covers

  • Website uptime and API checks with your own method, headers and body, keyword and JSON checks, and slow-response alerts
  • Checks every minute on paid plans from Stockholm, London and New York, with every failure confirmed from a second location
  • Incidents with evidence: the failing response and a screenshot or the network path
  • Multi-step flows for logins and checkouts, optionally in a real browser
  • Page speed with Google Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals, every day
  • Cron job monitors that alert you when a scheduled job does not run
  • SSL certificate and domain expiry reminders, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks
  • DNS monitoring with change history
  • Server monitoring: CPU, memory, disk and network on Linux, macOS and Windows
  • Status pages with subscribers and visitor statistics, and a REST API and MCP server on Professional and Business

Who Uptimecheck suits

Uptimecheck is built for teams that want one account for everything a website depends on: agencies with many client sites, online stores, SaaS products and developers who look after servers and scheduled jobs. Projects keep work separate, and reports export to CSV and go out by email every week or month.

Switching from Pingdom

Create an API token in Pingdom (Integrations › The Pingdom API, with Read access). In Uptimecheck, open Monitors › Import, choose Pingdom and paste the token. You see every check before anything is created: HTTP, keyword, ping, port and DNS checks come over with their intervals, paths, headers and texts to look for. Anything that cannot be imported is listed with the reason.

Nothing changes at Pingdom, and the token is never stored. Connect the alert channels your team already uses, publish a status page, run both services for a week and switch when you are confident.

Compare for yourself

We reviewed this page on October 16, 2026. Check Pingdom’s current plans and features, then compare them with our feature comparison. Running both side by side during the 14-day trial shows the difference on your own sites, and the live demo shows every feature without an account.

Plans and pricing

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For personal projects and small sites

€4.50 / month Regular price: €9

€54 for your first year, then €108 a year. Excl. VAT

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  • 15 uptime monitors, checked every minute
  • 10 cron jobs and 10 domains
  • 10 status pages
  • 3 members
  • Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram, push and more
  • 1 year of history

Professional

Most popular

For growing teams and agencies

€14.50 / month Regular price: €29

€174 for your first year, then €348 a year. Excl. VAT

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  • 100 uptime monitors, checked every minute
  • 50 cron jobs and 50 domains
  • 25 status pages at an address you choose
  • Client dashboards for your clients
  • REST API, MCP server and custom CSS
  • 10 members and 2 years of history

Business

For teams with many sites and clients

€34.50 / month Regular price: €69

€414 for your first year, then €828 a year. Excl. VAT

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  • Everything in Professional
  • 250 uptime monitors, checked every minute
  • 150 cron jobs and 150 domains
  • 250 status pages
  • 25 members
  • 3 years of history

Free €0, no end date, no card

Every workspace starts with 14 days of Professional and then stays on Free unless you choose a plan: 5 monitors checked every 5 minutes, 1 status page and 3 alert channels. Commercial use is allowed.

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Year-end offer: 50 % off your first year on yearly plans, for new subscriptions started by 31 December. It’s applied at checkout, and during your free trial you can lock it now and pay when the trial ends.

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Common questions

Does Uptimecheck have a free plan?

Yes. Every account starts with a 14-day free trial of Professional, without a credit card, and then stays on the Free plan unless you choose another: 5 monitors checked every 5 minutes, 1 status page and up to 3 alert channels, such as email, Slack or Microsoft Teams (SMS needs a paid plan). Commercial use is allowed. Paid plans start at €9 per month billed yearly or €12 billed monthly, excl. VAT.

Can it monitor a checkout or login, like a transaction check?

Yes. A flow monitor runs up to 10 steps in order, such as opening a page, logging in, submitting a form or calling an API, carries values such as a token from one step to the next, and can run in a real browser for JavaScript and clicks.

Does Uptimecheck do real user monitoring?

Not with a script on your site. Uptimecheck checks from the outside: websites, APIs, flows, ports, DNS, domains, cron jobs and servers. Page speed monitoring adds Google Lighthouse scores and, where Google has enough data, the Core Web Vitals that real Chrome users experienced.

Where are checks run from?

From Stockholm, London and New York. Every failure is confirmed from a second location before an incident opens, so one blip does not trigger an alert.

Can I import my Pingdom checks?

Yes. Uptime checks (HTTP, keyword, ping, port and DNS) come over with their intervals, paths, headers and texts to look for. You review them first, and the token is used for that one request and never stored.

How do the two compare on price?

Pricing models differ and change over time. Check Pingdom’s current plans and compare them with the Uptimecheck pricing page.

Switching from another tool?

What changes when you move your monitoring to Uptimecheck, and how to switch without gaps.

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