At 100 monitors, Pingdom costs $136.42 a month and checks once a minute. Uptimia Professional costs $39 a month, checks every 30 seconds and includes real-user monitoring, which Pingdom sells separately. Both billed yearly.
Uptimia suits teams and agencies that want 30-second checks, server and cron monitoring, and a status page per client. Pingdom suits a large team that needs unlimited logins or many browser checks on one plan.
For the same setup, Pingdom costs $136 a month and Uptimia $39.
Start free trial →Pingdom's dollar and euro price lists differ, so each currency view uses Pingdom's own list. Not counted: Pingdom real-user monitoring, a separate subscription.
After a 30-to-60-day transition, the Pingdom account goes read-only. Check history stays behind, so the move is a fresh start either way.
No Pingdom step checks faster than once a minute. Uptimia Professional checks each of its 100 monitors every 30 seconds.
Pingdom allows one public status page per account, with no password, and a custom domain loses HTTPS. Uptimia Professional includes 10, each with its own domain and HTTPS, a password and subscribers.
Uptimia Professional against Pingdom's 100-check step, prices billed yearly. Uptimia leads on 15 rows, Pingdom on 3, 7 are level and 1 not scored.
| Feature | Uptimia Professional | Pingdom Synthetic, 100 uptime checks |
|---|---|---|
| Check types | ||
| HTTP, keyword, ping, port, UDP and DNS | ✓ Yes | ✓ YesTCP for ports |
| SSL certificate expiry | ✓ Yes | ✓ YesPart of the HTTP check |
| Domain expiry | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listed |
| Heartbeat (cron job) monitoring | 100 monitors (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listed |
| Mail server checks (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| API monitoring with multi-step chains | 10 monitors (stronger offer) | Single requestHTTP Custom check |
| Browser transactions (login, checkout) | 10 advanced checksShared with page speed tests | 20 advanced checksShared with page speed tests, every 5 minutes at most (stronger offer) |
| Page speed tests | From the same 10 advanced checksWith Core Web Vitals | From the same advanced checksEvery 30 minutes, filmstrip and waterfall |
| Real user monitoring | ✓ Included750,000 page views a month (stronger offer) | Separate subscriptionFrom $16.50 a month |
| Server agent (CPU, memory, disk) | 10 servers (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listed |
| Blacklist and malware checks | 10 each (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listed |
| Intervals and alert checks | ||
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds1 minute on Basic (stronger offer) | 1 minuteOn every plan |
| Outage re-checked from other probes before alerting | ✓ Up to 3 other checkpoints | ✓ A second probePlaced as far from the first as Pingdom can |
| Evidence captured at failure | ✓ Screenshot, headers, traceroute (stronger offer) | Traceroute and response contentNo screenshot mentioned |
| Alerting | ||
| Text alerts | 150 texts a month, renewing | 350 a month, renewingRefill on the 1st (stronger offer) |
| Escalation with acknowledgement | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) | Delay and resendDelay up to 60 minutes, resend up to 4 times |
| Chat and on-call channels | ✓ Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, PagerDuty, webhooks and more | ✓ Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks |
| Status pages | ||
| Status pages included | 10 (stronger offer) | 1 per account |
| Password protection | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) | ✗ No |
| Own domain with HTTPS | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) | Own domain without HTTPS |
| Team and agency | ||
| People on the account | 11 people101 on Enterprise | ✓ Unlimited (stronger offer) |
| Your branding on reports and alerts | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) | Status page logo only |
| API and account | ||
| REST API | ✓ API v2 with OpenAPI spec | ✓ YesCheck IDs change after the SolarWinds move |
| Where monitoring data is stored | ✓ EU data centres (France and Germany) (stronger offer) | Not publishedThe security page names no country or provider |
| Two-factor sign-in | ✓ Authenticator app or email code | ✓ Authenticator app |
| Free plan | 1 monitor (stronger offer) | ✗ No30-day trial |
Keep Pingdom running while you test. Turn it off after Uptimia has caught a real outage.
30 days, every feature, no card.
A Pingdom export or a list of URLs. We set them up.
Add who gets alerts, then cancel Pingdom before it renews.
Free on every plan and on the trial.
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Weighing more than two tools? Pingdom alternatives
For most small teams, agencies and shops, yes. At 100 monitors, Uptimia Professional costs $39 a month against Pingdom's $136.42, billed yearly, checks every 30 seconds instead of once a minute, and adds server, cron job and blacklist monitoring.
If you need unlimited logins, pick Pingdom.
SolarWinds calls SolarWinds Observability "the next generation of Pingdom" and is moving accounts over. After a 30-to-60-day transition the Pingdom account turns read-only; history is not copied, check IDs change and the payment plan stays the same.
Yes, on paid plans, for website, URI and transaction alerts, with 50 to 1,500 credits depending on how many check bundles you buy; each text to each recipient uses one. The migration guide still says text alerts are not available yet, but SolarWinds' alert docs describe how to set them up.
Uptimia includes 50 texts a month on Basic, 150 on Professional and 500 on Enterprise.
Pingdom has no free plan, only a 30-day trial. Uptimia's free plan has 1 monitor at 5-minute checks with a status page.
Not with a button yet. Email your Pingdom export or a list of URLs to support@uptimia.com and we set it up for free. Your Pingdom history stays in Pingdom either way.
Uptimia keeps customer data, monitoring results and billing records in EU data centres in France and Germany. Pingdom's security page does not say where its data is stored.
30 days with every monitor type, no card.
pd-pricing-eur Pricing calculator as served to a German visitor, currency €. Synthetic Monitoring steps (data-pricem = monthly billing, data-pricea = per month on annual billing): 10 Uptime / 1 Advanced / 50 SMS €16 / €14.33; 25/4/100 €33 / €29.75; 50/10/200 €66 / €60.5; 100/20/350 €120 / €110; 200/30/400 €234 / €214.5; 300/40/500 €342 / €313.5; 400/40/500 €444 / €407; 500/50/1,000 €552 / €506; 750/60/1,000 €816 / €748; 1,000/80/1,000 €1056 / €968; ... 30,000/2,500/1,500 €23262 / €21323.5. Every step includes "Transaction monitoring, Page speed monitoring, Uptime monitoring, Email and SMS alerting, Maintenance windows, Public status pages and reports, Unlimited users". RUM: "Unlimited number of sites, Unlimited users, Shareable reports, Performance filtering, 13-month data retention", from 100,000 pageviews €16 / €14.33 up to 1 billion pageviews. "Trial includes Synthetics and RUM". "Enterprise ... Request Quote". No free plan listed. www.pingdom.com/pricing, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-pricing-usd Same pricing page with the site's US geo override, currency $: 10 Uptime / 1 Advanced / 50 SMS $18 monthly, $16.5 a month billed annually; 25/4/100 $40 / $36.33333333; 50/10/200 $78 / $71.5; 100/20/350 $149 / $136.4166667; 200/30/400 $290 / $265.1666667; 300/40/500 $422 / $386.1666667; 400/40/500 $546 / $500.5; 500/50/1,000 $680 / $622.6666667; 750/60/1,000 $999 / $915.25; 1,000/80/1,000 $1295 / $1186.916667; ... 30,000/2,500/1,500 $28548 / $26169. RUM 100,000 pageviews $18 / $16.5. The page script multiplies the annual value by 12 for "/yr". www.pingdom.com/pricing/?geoip&country=US, www.pingdom.com/pricing, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-check-types "What is a check?": Web checks HTTP(S) and HTTP Custom; network checks Ping, TCP, UDP and DNS; email checks SMTP, POP3(S) and IMAP(S). "the smallest interval is once a minute, this comes to 525600 requests a year per check." No heartbeat/cron or domain-expiry check type is listed. documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/what-is-a-check-.htm, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-http-check HTTP check settings: "check for string" that should or should not be found; "Monitor the validity of your SSL/TLS certificate ... checks will be considered DOWN when the certificate becomes invalid or expires" with a configurable days-before-expiry alert; custom headers; POST data; "choose which Probe server region ... The Default is North America and Europe." documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/how-to-set-up-a-http-s-check.htm, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-transaction Transaction monitoring: "Test from probe servers across the globe as often every 5 minutes to once per day." www.pingdom.com/product/transaction-monitoring, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-page-speed Page speed: "Pingdom will test your page load speed every 30 minutes"; filmstrip and waterfall charts. www.pingdom.com/product/page-speed, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-uptime-product "With over 100+ servers worldwide"; alerts "via SMS, email or webhook" and app integrations (the page also still says "push notification to your mobile device", which is out of date: see pd-app-eol); "delay alerts by any interval up to 1 hour. Alerts can also be resent at an interval up to 4 times"; public status pages "Included in all plans". www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-synthetic "Integrate with your favorite apps like Slack, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and more"; "the Pingdom API"; "Monitor your site's availability from over 100 locations worldwide"; "Starts at $10 per month" (older figure than the pricing calculator); "First 30 days free". www.pingdom.com/synthetic-monitoring, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-trial "First 30 days free Trial includes Synthetics & RUM"; "cancel any time". www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring, www.pingdom.com/product/page-speed, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-rum Docs: "Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a web analytics tool that allows you to view your website activity at any given time from a user's perspective." Pricing page sells it as a separate card priced by pageviews, listing "13-month data retention". documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/rum/about_rum.htm, www.pingdom.com/pricing, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-sms-credits "One credit is used for each SMS alert sent to a mobile phone." Credits "are refilled on the 1st of each month, both for monthly and yearly subscription plans." Optional autofill buys extra credits when the balance runs low. documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/sms-credits.htm, checked 8 Oct 2026.pd-extra-services Extra services: Autofill SMS credits and "5 Advanced Checks"; prices shown only inside the account. "An advanced check is either a Page Speed or a Transaction check." documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/extra-services.htm, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-solarwinds-private SolarWinds press release dated APRIL 16, 2025: Turn/River Capital completed its acquisition of SolarWinds for "$18.50 per share in cash"; "SolarWinds common stock has ceased trading, and the Company is no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange". Headquarters, from the SolarWinds contact page: "SolarWinds Corporate Global Headquarters 7171 Southwest Parkway Bldg 400 Austin, Texas 78735". www.solarwinds.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/turnriver-completes-acquisition-of-solarwinds, www.solarwinds.com/company/contact-us, checked 9 Oct 2026.pd-uptime-recheck Uptime monitoring product page: "Before alerting you we always perform a second check on every incident"; "For every incident, you can run a traceroute of the issue". This page does not say where the second check runs (pd-second-opinion does) and mentions no screenshot. www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring, checked 9 Oct 2026.pd-status-page-doc Public Status Page docs: "It is not possible to have more than one Public Status Page for your organization."; "It's also not possible to password protect the status page."; "Custom domains cannot point to the secure version of your status page." (use secure-stats.pingdom.com for HTTPS); a custom design template lets you upload your own logotype. documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/public-status-page.htm, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-mfa "The organization owner can enable MFA in the Security section of the Application Management products' common settings." "A 6-digit verification code generated by an authentication app is required to complete the login process." documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/shared/mfa.htm, checked 9 Oct 2026.pd-app-eol Pingdom release notes: "The Pingdom iOS app reached its End of Life (EOL) on September 14, 2021." "The Pingdom Android app reached its End of Life (EOL) on October 21, 2021." "Customers who rely on the Pingdom iOS app for mobile alerts should transition to using another alerting method." Both were removed from the app stores. The alerting-setup doc still ties push to the app: "For mobile alerts to our iOS/Android app, just start the app and enable notifications". documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/release_notes/pingdom_1_release_notes.htm, checked 9 Oct 2026.pd-swo-migration "Migrate from Pingdom to SolarWinds Observability SaaS": "SolarWinds is proud to introduce the next generation of Pingdom, now integrated into SolarWinds Observability"; "Over the next 30-60 days, we will move you to the next generation of Pingdom"; "you will have a 30-to-60-day transition period"; "Historical data will not be moved over as a part of this migration."; "After the migration is complete, your Pingdom account will be in read-only mode."; "Text message or SMS alerts are not currently available in SolarWinds Observability." (re-read 2026-10-12: still there, but contradicted by the newer alert and subscription docs, see pd-swo-sms); "Your payment plan will remain unchanged as a part of this migration."; "Availability checks in Pingdom and SolarWinds Observability will have a different check_id", so API integrations need updating; a few elements must be recreated manually (RUM snippet, allow lists, SAML). documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/observability/content/intro/websites/migrate-pingdom.htm, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-security-page Pingdom security page: describes security practices but does not say where customer or monitoring data is stored (no country, region, cloud provider or data centre named). www.pingdom.com/security, checked 9 Oct 2026.pd-second-opinion "Why does Pingdom say my site is down when it is not?": when a probe cannot connect, Pingdom marks the check Unconfirmed Down and will "ask another probe server to try to make the same connection"; "we try to make the second opinion as geographically different as possible"; the check "will only be marked as confirmed Down if the second test fails". documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingdom/content/topics/why-does-pingdom-say-my-site-is-down-when-it-is-not-.htm, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-swo-sms SolarWinds Observability website-down alert doc: "SMS notifications are only supported for Digital Experience entities (websites, URIs, and synthetic transaction entities)"; "This feature is only available for paid plans"; setup: "Under the Services drop-down click SMS". Subscription doc: "SMS alert credits are allocated based on the number of bundles you purchase for Digital Experience": 1-4 bundles 50 credits, 5-9 100, 10-19 200, 20-34 350, 35-49 400, 50-75 500, 76-420 1,000, 421 and above 1,500; "One SMS credit is consumed for each SMS notification sent to a single recipient." documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/observability/content/alerts/alert-website-down.htm, documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/observability/content/settings/subscription.htm, checked 12 Oct 2026.pd-pricing-addons Pingdom pricing page cross-sells other SolarWinds products that are not part of the Pingdom plans: "Log Management and Analytics Powered by SolarWinds Loggly", "Application Performance Monitoring Powered by SolarWinds AppOptics" and "Infrastructure Monitoring Powered by SolarWinds AppOptics" ("servers, virtual hosts, and containerized environments"). www.pingdom.com/pricing, checked 12 Oct 2026.ecb-rate Euro reference rate $1.1355 to €1, European Central Bank, 29 Sep 2026. Used only to convert dollar add-ons in the euro view. www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html, checked 30 Sep 2026.