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 3 regions. At 100 monitors that is $59 a month, flat. The other Pingdom competitors worth shortlisting are further down.
Last updated August 2026 · Pingdom pricing verified August 2026, verify on their site
alertping ▸ run check
live
▸ type a domain and run a real-feel check
▸ probes from 3 regions · FRA · IAD · SIN
▸ waiting…▌
queued probing▌
If ever goes down, you get:
Alert fired ▸ 2 channels · 6.2 s after first failure
AlertPing app
● DOWN : HTTP timeout confirmed from 3/3 regions (FRA, IAD, SIN). Incident opened.
sms · on-call
AlertPing: DOWN. Confirmed 3/3 regions . First fail: Frankfurt.
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.
| AlertPing | Pingdom | |
|---|---|---|
| Base price | $19/mo Starter ($15 billed yearly), 20 monitors | Synthetic monitoring from $15/mo billed monthly ($10/mo billed annually) for 10 uptime checks, rising to about $95/mo near 90 checks |
| Check interval on entry plan | 60 s on Starter, 30 s on Team and up, 15 s on Enterprise | 1 minute |
| SMS alerts | Included 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 / unlimited monitors, price stays put as you fill them | Per-monitor tiers; cost grows as you add monitors |
| Multi-region confirmation | 3 of 3 regions (FRA, IAD, SIN) 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 three regions 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 the prices are close. At 50 or 100 monitors, flat plans win clearly: AlertPing Team is $59 a month for 100 monitors, while per-monitor pricing keeps climbing as you add checks.
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 3-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pingdom | $15/mo billed monthly ($10 billed annually) | Not available, 1 minute is the floor on every tier | No free plan, and the price climbs with each check you add |
| UptimeRobot | $10/mo billed monthly ($9 billed annually) | $38/mo billed annually (Team), $45 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 | $19/mo billed monthly ($15 billed annually) | $59/mo billed monthly (Team) | No free plan, only 3 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: unmetered SMS, a documented three-region confirmation step, and a flat bill. The full roundup with more tools is on best uptime monitoring tools.
“Our old tool paged me at 3am for blips that fixed themselves in a minute. AlertPing only pages when all three regions agree it's really down. I sleep again.”
SRE lead, payments SaaS
“I run 40 client sites. One dashboard, one status page per client, and SMS that does not cost extra credits. The math was not close.”
Founder, web agency
“We sell a 99.9% SLA. AlertPing's reports are what we attach to the quarterly review. Our biggest customer stopped asking for proof.”
CTO, logistics platform
Switch from Pingdom in an afternoon
Flat plans, SMS included, 30-second checks confirmed from 3 regions. Run both side by side for a week and decide with data.