compare · alertping vs pingdom
Pingdom alternative and Pingdom competitors compared, with flat pricing and SMS included
Short answer: Stay on Pingdom if you need real user monitoring and multi-step transaction checks in the same suite, or your company already buys SolarWinds. Switch to AlertPing if you want the bill to stop climbing with every monitor you add: flat plans, SMS with no credits, and 30-second checks confirmed from a second region. At 100 monitors that is $59 a month, flat. The other Pingdom competitors worth shortlisting are further down.
alertping ▸ check preview
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▸ type a domain to watch a check and an alert play out
▸ simulation of 2 regions · US East · EU Central
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If ever goes down, you get:
Alert fired ▸ 2 channels · 6.2 s after first failure
AlertPing app
● DOWN : HTTP timeout confirmed from 2/2 regions (US East, EU Central). Incident opened.
sms · on-call
AlertPing: DOWN. Confirmed 2/2 regions . First fail: EU Central.
Simulation, not a measurement of your site: this preview runs entirely in your browser and the latencies are generated from the domain you typed. Real checks on your monitors run from our US East and EU Central regions.
side by side
AlertPing vs Pingdom, feature by feature
Pingdom prices and features as published at the time of writing; check their site for current numbers. Ours are on the uptime monitoring pricing page. If you are still shortlisting, the roundup of the best uptime monitoring tools compares five of them side by side, and there are separate breakdowns for the Better Stack alternative and the StatusCake alternative. Weighing the two cheapest names against each other? See Pingdom vs UptimeRobot, or put Pingdom next to the cheapest bundle in StatusCake vs Pingdom. Shopping at the same end of the market? AlertBot scripts real-browser transaction checks the way Pingdom does, and Uptime.com is the other synthetic platform that gates its fastest checks behind an enterprise tier, as does Uptrends, where 30-second checks exist only on Enterprise.
| AlertPing | Pingdom | |
|---|---|---|
| Base price | $49/mo Starter ($24 billed yearly), 20 monitors | Synthetic monitoring from $18/mo billed monthly ($16.50/mo billed annually) for 10 uptime checks, rising to $149/mo for 100 checks |
| Check interval on entry plan | 60 s on Starter, 30 s on Team and up, 15 s on Enterprise | 1 minute |
| SMS alerts | Monthly allowance in every plan, no credits, no per-message fees | Limited per plan; extra SMS via paid credits and add-ons |
| Pricing model | Flat plans. 20 / 100 / 500 / 1,500 monitors, price stays put as you fill them | Per-check quantity selector; cost grows as you add checks |
| Multi-region confirmation | 2 of 2 regions (US East, EU Central) must agree before any alert | Re-test from a second probe location before alerting |
| Status pages | Hosted and branded on every plan; custom domain on Business and up | Public status pages available |
| Contract and procurement | Self-serve monthly or yearly; invoicing, PO and DPA on Enterprise | Part of the SolarWinds portfolio; procurement runs through SolarWinds |
to be fair
When Pingdom is the better fit
- Your company already runs SolarWinds tooling and wants one vendor, one contract, one console.
- You need real user monitoring (RUM) and multi-step synthetic transactions in the same suite as uptime checks.
- You have years of Pingdom history you are contractually required to keep in place.
If that is you, stay. No tool is right for everyone, and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worthless.
why teams move
Where AlertPing pulls ahead
Most switchers tell us the same three things. The bill grew every time they added a monitor. SMS felt like a parking meter. And a 1-minute interval left a gap where short outages hid. Our website monitoring tool checks every 30 seconds on Team and up, confirms from a second region so a single flaky route never pages you, and includes SMS, email, Slack and webhook downtime alerts in every plan.
The pricing math is easy to check yourself: 100 monitors on AlertPing Team is $59 a month, flat, with 15 team members and escalation chains. Price the same monitor count per-monitor and you will see why agencies moved first.
30 s checks | 3-of-3 confirmation | sms: $0 extra
migration path
Switching from Pingdom in an afternoon
There is no lock-in on either side: uptime monitors are URLs, hosts and ports. The whole move is copy, verify, cancel.
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Export your monitor list
Pull your checks from the Pingdom dashboard or its API. It is a list of URLs, intervals and contacts.
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Add them to AlertPing
Paste URLs, IPs and ports; wire up SMS numbers, Slack channels and escalation chains. First checks run within seconds.
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Run both for a week, then cancel
Let the two overlap so every alert path is proven in production. Then point your status page DNS at AlertPing and close the old account.
switching questions
Asked by every Pingdom switcher
Is AlertPing cheaper than Pingdom?
It depends on monitor count. At 10 monitors Pingdom is cheaper: $18 a month for 10 checks against $49 for AlertPing Starter, or $24 a month billed yearly, which covers 20 monitors. At 50 or 100 monitors, flat plans win clearly: AlertPing Team is $59 a month for 100 monitors, while Pingdom is $78 a month for 50 checks and $149 for 100.
Can I import my Pingdom monitors?
Yes, practically. Export your check list from Pingdom, add the URLs, hosts and ports to AlertPing, and re-point your alert contacts. Most teams finish the whole move, verification week aside, in a single afternoon.
Does AlertPing check as often as Pingdom?
More often on most plans. Pingdom checks every minute. AlertPing checks every 30 seconds on Team and Business, every 60 seconds on Starter, and every 15 seconds on Enterprise, always with second-region confirmation before an alert.
the wider shortlist
The other Pingdom competitors worth a look
We are one option, not the only one, and a page that pretended otherwise would not be much use to you. These are the Pingdom competitors that come up most often in the same shortlist, with the entry price, the cheapest tier that reaches 30-second checks, and the reason each one loses. Every figure states its billing basis, because mixing monthly and annual rates is the fastest way to make a comparison table lie. If you are weighing Pingdom against an observability platform rather than another uptime tool, we put the two billing models side by side in Pingdom vs Datadog.
| Tool | Entry price | Cheapest 30-second checks | Where it loses |
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| Pingdom | $18/mo billed monthly ($16.50 billed annually) | Not available, 1 minute is the floor on every plan | No free plan, and the price climbs with each check you add |
| UptimeRobot | $13/mo billed monthly ($12 billed annually) | $39/mo billed annually (Team), $46 monthly | Free tier is non-commercial and has no SSL monitoring |
| Pulsetic | $9/mo billed monthly | $19/mo billed monthly (Team) | SMS is credit metered at $0.10 over the bundle, 30 seconds is the floor |
| StatusCake | $24.49/mo billed monthly ($20.41 billed annually) | $79.99/mo billed monthly ($66.66 billed annually) | SMS is sold as credit packs, and 30 seconds needs the Business tier |
| Hyperping | Free, then $29/mo billed monthly ($24 billed annually) | $29/mo billed monthly | Cheapest route to 30-second checks, but a smaller alerting feature set |
| Better Stack | Free tier, responder license $34/mo monthly or $29/mo billed annually | Bundled into paid tiers | Modular pricing, so the total depends on how many add-ons you switch on |
| Site24x7 | Free for 50 monitors, then $10/mo | $999/mo Enterprise Plus | Broad Zoho suite with add-on pricing, and 30-second polling is priced out of reach |
| AlertPing | $49/mo billed monthly ($24 billed annually) | $59/mo billed monthly (Team) | No free plan, only 2 check regions, and no RUM or transaction checks |
If the shortlist is really about cost per monitor, Pulsetic and Hyperping undercut us and we would rather you knew that here than found it out after signing. Our case is narrower: included SMS with no per-message fees, a documented second-region confirmation step, and a flat bill. The full roundup with more tools is on best uptime monitoring tools.
how we page you
Two regions have to agree
A single failed probe never wakes anybody. A second region, US East or EU Central, re-checks 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
Email, Slack and webhook alerts are unlimited on every plan, SMS comes with a monthly allowance, 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 both regions. No agent, no config file, nothing to deploy on your side.
Switch from Pingdom in an afternoon
Flat plans, SMS included, 30-second checks confirmed from a second region. Run both side by side for a week and decide with data.