Dotcom-Monitor alternative: Dotcom-Monitor pricing and competitors compared for uptime, API and port checks
Short answer: Dotcom-Monitor prices every monitoring platform separately. Ten websites or APIs checked every minute cost $39.98 a month in WebView, and five ports or SSL certificates checked every minute cost another $175 in ServerView. AlertPing puts URLs, APIs, ports, ping, SSL and cron checks in one pool: 20 monitors at 60 seconds for $19 a month, or 100 monitors at 30 seconds for $59. If you need real-browser tests, recorded transactions or load testing, Dotcom-Monitor does that and we do not.
Dotcom-Monitor prices read from its published pricing matrixes in US dollars
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the honest frame
Dotcom-Monitor is five products with five price lists
WebView covers HTTP and API endpoints. ServerView covers DNS, ports, SSL, ICMP, FTP and SIP. BrowserView loads pages in a real browser, UserView replays scripted transactions, and MetricsView reads server counters. Each one has its own grid of target counts and check frequencies, and your bill is the sum of the grids you buy. That is a sensible design for a performance team. It gets expensive for a team that simply wants to know when something stops answering.
Where the products overlap
HTTP and HTTPS uptime, single-request API checks, TCP ports, ICMP ping, SSL certificate expiry and alerting by SMS, email, Slack and webhook. That is the WebView and part of the ServerView bill, and a flat uptime tool replaces it one for one.
Where they do not
Real-browser page loads with waterfalls, recorded multi-step transactions, video capture, streaming media checks, private agents inside your network and load testing. AlertPing sells none of those. If they are why you bought Dotcom-Monitor, keep them there.
Why buyers compare
Frequency doubles the price. Moving a WebView package from 5-minute to 1-minute checks costs exactly twice as much at every size, and a port check at one minute runs $35 a target on the entry package. Nothing on the grid goes faster than one minute.
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Dotcom-Monitor pricing for the checks most teams actually run
Monthly subscription prices in US dollars from the Dotcom-Monitor pricing matrixes. A Premium Locations add-on is 25% of the package price. There is a free plan for up to 25 targets at a 5-minute frequency from 2 locations with email alerts, and a 30-day trial of the paid features with no credit card.
WebView: websites and APIs
| Targets | Every 5 min | Every 1 min | Per target, 1 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $19.99 | $39.98 | $4.00 |
| 20 | $31.98 | $63.97 | $3.20 |
| 50 | $63.97 | $127.90 | $2.56 |
| 100 | $102.30 | $204.70 | $2.05 |
| 200 | $184.20 | $368.50 | $1.84 |
| 300 | $248.70 | $497.40 | $1.66 |
ServerView: ports, ping, DNS and SSL
| Targets | Every 15 min | Every 5 min | Every 1 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | $40.00 | $90.00 | $175.00 |
| 10 | $79.99 | $179.99 | $349.99 |
| 20 | $99.99 | $209.99 | $399.99 |
| 50 | $129.99 | $249.99 | $499.99 |
| 100 | $139.99 | $349.99 | $599.99 |
Fixed prices, which is a real strength
Dotcom-Monitor bills a configuration, not usage. Ten API endpoints at one minute is $39.98 every month whether the checks run 43,200 times or 44,640 times, which works out to about 9 cents per thousand checks. Tools that meter per run cannot promise that. We price the same way, so on predictability the two products agree.
The frequency multiplier is where it bites
Every WebView row doubles from 5 minutes to 1 minute, to the cent. ServerView is steeper at the small end: five targets go from $40 at 15 minutes to $175 at one minute, 4.4 times as much. Browser and transaction grids start at a 3-hour frequency and reach $299.75 and $424.50 a month for five pages or steps at one minute.
the real bill
Four common setups priced on both tools
Monthly list prices on both sides, so the comparison is like for like. Dotcom-Monitor figures add the WebView and ServerView packages each setup needs, without Premium Locations. AlertPing figures are the plan whose monitor count covers the setup.
| Setup | Dotcom-Monitor per month | Dotcom-Monitor per year | AlertPing plan | AlertPing per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 URLs at 1 min, 5 ports at 15 min | $79.98 | $959.76 | Starter, 60 s, $19/mo | $228 |
| 20 URLs and 5 ports, all at 1 min | $238.97 | $2,867.64 | Team, 30 s, $59/mo | $708 |
| 100 URLs and APIs at 1 min | $204.70 | $2,456.40 | Team, 30 s, $59/mo | $708 |
| 300 URLs and 50 ports at 1 min | $997.39 | $11,968.68 | Business, 30 s, $189/mo | $2,268 |
The gap is widest wherever ports are involved, because ServerView at one minute starts at $35 a target. On the second row the difference is $2,159.64 a year, and AlertPing checks twice as often. The gap narrows when you accept slow checks: 20 URLs every 5 minutes is $31.98 on Dotcom-Monitor, and 25 targets at 5 minutes cost nothing on its free plan. If 5 minutes is fast enough for you, that free plan is hard to argue with. On yearly billing AlertPing drops to $180, $564 and $1,812.
side by side
AlertPing vs Dotcom-Monitor, feature by feature
Scored on availability monitoring. On browser, transaction, streaming and load testing Dotcom-Monitor wins every row, because we do not compete there.
| Capability | AlertPing | Dotcom-Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Flat plan, one monitor pool | Fixed package per platform, summed |
| Entry paid price | $19 a month for 20 monitors | $19.99 a month for 10 WebView targets at 5 min |
| Free plan | No | Yes, 25 targets at 5 min, email only |
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds from $59, 15 seconds on Enterprise | 1 minute |
| Ports, ping and SSL | Same pool as URLs, same price | Separate ServerView package |
| Outage confirmation | 3 regions re-check before paging | Checks from chosen locations |
| Monitoring locations | 3 (Frankfurt, Virginia, Singapore) | 25 on subscriptions, 30+ on Enterprise |
| SMS alerts | Included on every plan | Included on subscriptions |
| Phone call and WhatsApp alerts | Voice calls on Enterprise | Subscriptions |
| Cron and heartbeat checks | Every plan | Not listed on the pricing page |
| Real-browser and transaction monitoring | Not offered | BrowserView and UserView |
| Load testing | Not offered | LoadView |
| Private agents inside your network | Not offered | Subscriptions and Enterprise |
| Status pages | 1, 5 or 20 by plan, custom domain on Business | Public dashboards |
| Data retention | By plan | 1 year, 3 years on Enterprise |
| SSO | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Trial | Run a live check before you buy | 30 days, no credit card |
where they win
Six things Dotcom-Monitor does that we do not
These are good reasons to stay, and some teams should keep both tools.
Real browser page loads
BrowserView renders the page and records element-level timing and a waterfall. A slow third-party tag never shows up in an HTTP status code.
Recorded transactions
UserView replays login, search and checkout scripts built with its EveryStep recorder, so you know the funnel works, not only that the homepage loads.
Load testing under one vendor
LoadView stress-tests the same site you monitor. If your team buys both jobs, one contract and one script format is a genuine saving.
Private agents
An agent inside your network can watch intranet apps and internal APIs. We only check from the public internet.
More locations and protocols
25 locations on subscriptions, plus SIP, FTP and streaming media checks. Three confirming regions cannot tell you how a page performs in Dallas versus Seattle.
A free tier and a long trial
25 targets at 5 minutes for $0, and 30 days of paid features without a card. AlertPing has no free plan.
who buys which
Six buyers and the honest pick for each
An MSP watching client ports and URLs
AlertPing. Ports, ping and SSL sit in the same monitor pool as websites, so 300 URLs and 50 ports at 30 seconds is $189 a month instead of about $997 at one minute.
An ecommerce team whose checkout breaks
Dotcom-Monitor UserView for the checkout script. Run fast uptime checks on the storefront and API elsewhere if a slow transaction clock leaves gaps.
A SaaS team with an uptime SLA
AlertPing Team. 30-second checks on 100 endpoints for $59 a month, confirmed from three regions so a single bad probe does not wake anyone.
A hobby site checked every 5 minutes
Dotcom-Monitor Free. If email alerts on a 5-minute clock are enough, paying anyone is hard to justify.
Intranet apps behind a firewall
Dotcom-Monitor with a private agent. External monitoring cannot reach a host that is not on the internet.
A team that also runs load tests
Dotcom-Monitor, or split it: keep LoadView and browser scripts there and move plain uptime, port and SSL checks to a flat plan.
switching
How to move uptime checks off Dotcom-Monitor without a gap
Because Dotcom-Monitor bills by platform, you can shrink one package and keep the rest. Start with the package that costs the most per target.
Step one
List targets by platform
Put WebView and ServerView targets in one column and BrowserView, UserView and MetricsView in another. The first column is what moves.
Step two
Rebuild the simple checks
Recreate each URL, port and certificate with the same keyword and status code assertions, at the interval you wanted rather than the one the grid priced.
Step three
Keep the same alert routes
Same phones, same Slack channel, same webhook into PagerDuty or your ticketing tool, so on-call sees faster pages and nothing else changes.
Step four
Downsize the packages
After one billing cycle of running both, drop ServerView first, then step WebView down to whatever browser work still needs it.
questions people ask
Dotcom-Monitor alternatives, answered
What is the best Dotcom-Monitor alternative?
It depends which platform you use. For browser and transaction monitoring, look at Uptrends, Checkly and Datadog Synthetics. For websites, APIs, ports and SSL, a flat tool like AlertPing covers 100 monitors at 30 seconds for $59 a month, which Dotcom-Monitor cannot match on interval or on price.
How much does Dotcom-Monitor cost?
Subscriptions start at $19.99 a month for 10 WebView targets at a 5-minute frequency. The same 10 targets at one minute cost $39.98. ServerView starts at $40 for 5 targets at 15 minutes and reaches $175 at one minute. Each platform is priced separately and added together.
Does Dotcom-Monitor have a free plan?
Yes. The free plan covers up to 25 targets at a 5-minute frequency from 2 locations, with email alerts and 7 days of data retention. SMS, phone, Slack and webhook alerts need a subscription. Paid features come with a 30-day trial and no credit card.
Can Dotcom-Monitor check every 30 seconds?
No. The fastest frequency on every Dotcom-Monitor plan, including Enterprise, is one minute, and choosing it doubles the WebView price. AlertPing checks every 30 seconds on Team and Business, and every 15 seconds on Enterprise.
Who are Dotcom-Monitor competitors?
Synthetic suites such as Uptrends, Site24x7, Pingdom, Uptime.com and Datadog Synthetics compete on browser and transaction work. Uptime-first tools such as StatusCake, UptimeRobot, Better Stack and AlertPing compete on website, API and port checks, usually at a much lower price per target.
Why is Dotcom-Monitor port monitoring expensive?
Ports, ping, DNS and SSL live in ServerView, a separate package whose smallest one-minute option is 5 targets for $175, or $35 a target. In AlertPing a TCP port or SSL certificate is one monitor in the same pool as your URLs, at no extra cost.
Is Dotcom-Monitor better than Site24x7?
For recorded transactions and load testing, Dotcom-Monitor is more focused. Site24x7 bundles websites, servers and applications into one plan, which is usually cheaper for mixed estates. Neither sells a 30-second interval at entry prices. Our Site24x7 alternative page has its figures.
Dotcom-Monitor vs AlertPing, which is cheaper?
For one-minute or faster checks, AlertPing, by a wide margin once ports are included: 20 URLs and 5 ports cost $238.97 a month on Dotcom-Monitor and $59 on AlertPing Team at 30 seconds. At a 5-minute frequency Dotcom-Monitor is cheaper, and free up to 25 targets. Compare uptime monitoring pricing across fifteen tools.
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how we page you
Three regions have to agree
A single failed probe never wakes anybody. Frankfurt, Virginia and Singapore all re-check first, so a hiccup on one route is not a 3am phone call.
what a plan covers
SMS is in the price, not in credits
SMS, email, Slack and webhook alerts are unlimited on every plan, and each plan hosts status pages. No credit packs, no per-message fee, no per-monitor math.
how setup works
One URL, no agent to install
Paste the address, choose where alerts go, and the first check runs from all three regions. No agent, no config file, nothing to deploy on your side.
Websites, APIs, ports and SSL in one flat plan
One monitor pool for every check type, confirmed from three regions before anyone is paged. Flat from $19 a month, with 30-second checks from $59.