Comparisons
Real prices, full feature tables and honest trade-offs against 18 uptime monitoring tools and 8 privacy-friendly analytics tools.
Entry price, free-plan terms and the fastest check interval for Pulsetic and the 18 uptime monitoring and status page tools people compare it with. Full breakdowns are in the table below and on each comparison page.
| Tool | Entry price | Free plan or trial | Check interval | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulsetic | $9/mo | Free plan, commercial use | 30 sec | |
| UptimeRobot | $8 | Free Plan (non-commercial only) | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Pingdom | $16 | 30 days | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Better Stack | $30 | Free Plan | 30 sec | Compare → |
| StatusCake | $24.49 | 7 days | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Statuspage by Atlassian | $29 | Free Plan | N/A | Compare → |
| incident.io | $15/user | Free Plan | n/a | Compare → |
| Site24x7 | $9 | 30 days | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Uptime.com | $9 | 14 days | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Uptime Kuma | $0 + your server | Free (open source) | 20 sec | Compare → |
| Cachet | $0 + your server | Free (open source) | n/a | Compare → |
| Cronitor | $2/monitor + $5/user | Free Plan (5 monitors) | 30 sec | Compare → |
| Opsgenie | $9.45/user (renewals only) | Closed to new signups | n/a | Compare → |
| PagerDuty | $21/user | Free Plan (5 users) | n/a | Compare → |
| Oh Dear | €13 (5 monitors) | 10 days | 1 min | Compare → |
| Uptrends | $210 | Free Plan (1 monitor); 30-day trial | 2 min (30s Enterprise) | Compare → |
| Checkly | $24/mo (billed annually) | Free Plan (10 monitors) | 2 min (30s Team plan) | Compare → |
| HetrixTools | $9.95 | Free Plan (15 monitors) | 1 min | Compare → |
| Freshping | n/a | n/a | n/a | Compare → |
Pulsetic against all 18 uptime monitoring and status page tools across monitoring, status pages, notifications, analytics, RUM, security and support. Scroll sideways to see every tool; the Feature and Pulsetic columns stay pinned.
| Feature | Pulsetic | UptimeRobot | Pingdom | Freshping (discontinued) | StatusCake | Better Stack | Statuspage Atlassian | Site24x7 | Uptime.com | incident.io | Uptime Kuma | Cachet | Cronitor | Opsgenie (end of life) | PagerDuty | Oh Dear | Uptrends | Checkly | HetrixTools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan / trial | Free Plan |
Free Plan (non-commercial only) | 30 days | n/a | 7 days | Free Plan | Free Plan | 30 days | 14 days | Free Plan | Free (open source) | Free (open source) | Free Plan (5 monitors) | Closed to new signups | Free Plan (5 users) | 10 days | Free Plan (1 monitor); 30-day trial | Free Plan (10 monitors) | Free Plan (15 monitors) |
| Price (USD/mo) | $9 |
$8 | $16 | n/a | $24.49 | $30 | $29 | $9 | $9 | $15/user | $0 + your server | $0 + your server | $2/monitor + $5/user | $9.45/user (renewals only) | $21/user | €13 (5 monitors) | $210 | $24/mo (billed annually) | $9.95 |
| Monitoring | |||||||||||||||||||
| Check time | 30 sec |
60 sec | 60 sec | n/a | 60 sec | 30 sec | N/A | 60 sec | 60 sec | n/a | 20 sec | n/a | 30 sec | n/a | n/a | 1 min | 2 min (30s Enterprise) | 2 min (30s Team plan) | 1 min |
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) | ✓ |
✗ | ✓ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Choice of regional data centers | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Primary location only | Regions only on Core | ✓ | 4-12 locations by plan |
| SSL monitoring | ✓ |
Paid plans | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keyword monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | API checks only | ✓ |
| Ping / ICMP monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Port monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TCP monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domain monitoring | ✓ |
Paid plans | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | RDAP TLDs only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Not documented | ✗ | ✓ |
| Cron / heartbeat monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Standard plan and up | DIY via add-on | 5 tasks/monitor | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom HTTP requests | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GET/HEAD only |
| Customized responses | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| API | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | No official REST API | ✓ | ✓ | Until Apr 2027 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP server | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Unofficial only | ✗ | Cron jobs only | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| n8n integration | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Via webhooks | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cloudflare IP allowlisting | ✓ |
Manual | Manual | n/a | Manual | Manual | ✗ | Manual | Manual | ✗ | Manual | ✗ | Manual | ✗ | ✗ | Manual | Manual | Manual | Manual |
| Monitoring data retention | Up to 5 yr |
24 mo | 13 mo | n/a | 6 yr | 13 mo | n/a | 1 yr | 2 yr | n/a | Configurable | n/a | 12 mo | n/a | n/a | Varies by check | 180 days on Core | 7-30 days | Unlimited |
| Status Pages | |||||||||||||||||||
| Incident updates | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Internal only | ✓ | ✓ | Comment field only | ✓ | ✓ |
| Status updates for subscribers via email | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | v2 only, not in v3 | ✓ | Internal only | ✓ | Slack & RSS documented | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Maintenance windows | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Alert muting only | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Status badges | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | v2 only | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | Check badges only | ✗ |
| Customized domain | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Paid add-on | ✓ |
| Customized colors | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Via custom CSS | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | $30/mo add-on | ✓ |
| Customized logo | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | Via support ticket | Add-on tiers | ✓ |
| Remove branding | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | $25/mo add-on | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | $30/mo add-on | Business plan ($19.95) |
| Customized status page layout | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Limited | Limited | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Presets only | Pick widgets | ✗ | Limited |
| CSS customization | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | $30/mo add-on | ✗ |
| Custom email sender & templates | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Sender domain only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI writing assistant | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | $415/mo add-on | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Page translations | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Browser locale only | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Password-protected status page | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | $50/mo add-on | ✗ | Business plan and up | ✓ | Enterprise only | $30/mo add-on | ✓ |
| Notifications | |||||||||||||||||||
| Email alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Via paid gateways | ✗ | Paid plans | Metered | ✓ | Via your own Vonage | 240 credits on Core | Paid plans | 0 credits on Free |
| Phone call alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid plans | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Team plan ($64/mo) | 0 credits on Free |
| Slack alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MS teams alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discord alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Telegram alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mattermost alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Webhooks alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Page events only | ✓ | Standard plan and up | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zapier alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Via webhook | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Twilio alerts | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | SMS only | ✗ | ✗ | Native SMS/voice | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Datadog integration | ✓ |
✗ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Integration with SIGNL4 | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Via webhook | ✗ | ✓ |
| Analytics | |||||||||||||||||||
| See response times | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Push via API only | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Response time by location | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom date range reports | ✓ |
✗ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Alert analytics only | Incidents only | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | Uptime % only |
| Scheduled email reports | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Monthly only | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Web Analytics & RUM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cookieless tracking | ✓ |
n/a | ✗ | n/a | n/a | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | Not documented | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a |
| Tracking script size | Under 4 KB |
n/a | Not documented | n/a | n/a | Not documented | n/a | Not documented | Not documented | n/a | n/a | n/a | Not documented | n/a | n/a | n/a | Not documented | n/a | n/a |
| Core Web Vitals (field data) | ✓ |
n/a | Not documented | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | Synthetic only | n/a | n/a |
| Load time percentiles (p50/p75/p95) | ✓ |
n/a | ✗ | n/a | n/a | Not documented | n/a | ✓ | Apdex only | n/a | n/a | n/a | Not documented | n/a | n/a | n/a | Median only | n/a | n/a |
| JS error tracking | ✓ |
n/a | ✗ | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✗ | n/a | n/a |
| Realtime visitors | ✓ |
n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | Not documented | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | Minutes delay | n/a | n/a |
| Traffic breakdowns (pages, geo, devices) | ✓ |
n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a |
| Goals / custom events | ✗ |
n/a | ✗ | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | Via API | ✗ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✓ | n/a | n/a | n/a | ✗ | n/a | n/a |
| Analytics data retention | 3 mo - 5 yr by plan |
n/a | 1-13 mo by plan | n/a | n/a | 3-90 days by type | n/a | 3 mo (5 yr reports) | 13 months | n/a | n/a | n/a | Plan-based (6 mo) | n/a | n/a | n/a | Up to 90 d by plan | n/a | n/a |
| Self-hostable | ✗ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | Relay only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Security | |||||||||||||||||||
| Two-factor authentication | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | v2 only | ✗ | Via Atlassian account | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single Sign-On (SAML) | ✓ |
✗ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | $5/user add-on | Standard plan and up | ✓ | ✓ | Enterprise only | Enterprise only | ✗ |
| Role-based access | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Admin/User only | Paid plans | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Paid plans |
| Support | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chat | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid plans | ✗ | Premium support only | ✗ | Pro plan and up | ✗ | ✗ |
| Human Support | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Community only | Community only | ✓ | Until Apr 2027 | ✓ | Email, weekdays | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Support | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Helpdesk Articles | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GitHub wiki | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email Support | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Ticket portal | ✓ | ✓ |
Comparison based on publicly available information as of July 2026. Features and pricing change frequently, so please verify current details on each provider’s website.
Plausible, Fathom and similar tools count your visitors without cookies. Pulsetic’s Real User Monitoring takes the same lightweight, cookieless approach but answers a different question: what those visitors actually experienced, with real load times and Core Web Vitals, plus uptime monitoring and status pages in the same $9 tool.
| Tool | Entry price | Free plan or trial | Script size | Cookieless | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulsetic | $9/mo | Free plan, commercial use | Under 4 KB | ✓ | |
| Plausible | $9 | 30-day trial | 2.5 KB | ✓ | Compare → |
| Fathom Analytics | $15 | 7-day trial | 2 KB | ✓ | Compare → |
| Simple Analytics | €20 (~$23) | Free Plan (30-day history) | 3 KB | ✓ | Compare → |
| Matomo | €29 Cloud; $0 + your server | 21-day trial; free on-prem | 22-46 KB gzipped | Opt-in, not default | Compare → |
| Umami | $20 Cloud; $0 + your server | Free Plan (100k events) | 2 KB | ✓ | Compare → |
| GoatCounter | Free (donation) | Free (donation-funded) | 3.5 KB | ✓ | Compare → |
| Pirsch | $6 | 30-day trial | 4 KB | ✓ | Compare → |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Free | Free Plan | 31 KB (11 KB gzipped) | ✓ | Compare → |
Web analytics and Real User Monitoring capabilities for Pulsetic and the 8 analytics tools, from the same data as the big table above. To be clear about the trade-off: Pulsetic does not do goals, custom events or funnels, and these tools do not check uptime.
| Feature | Pulsetic | Plausible | Fathom Analytics | Simple Analytics | Matomo | Umami | GoatCounter | Pirsch | Cloudflare Web Analytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan / trial | Free Plan |
30-day trial | 7-day trial | Free Plan (30-day history) | 21-day trial; free on-prem | Free Plan (100k events) | Free (donation-funded) | 30-day trial | Free Plan |
| Price (USD/mo) | $9 |
$9 | $15 | €20 (~$23) | €29 Cloud; $0 + your server | $20 Cloud; $0 + your server | Free (donation) | $6 | Free |
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Page timings only | Web Vitals opt-in | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Web Analytics & RUM | |||||||||
| Cookieless tracking | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Opt-in, not default | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tracking script size | Under 4 KB |
2.5 KB | 2 KB | 3 KB | 22-46 KB gzipped | 2 KB | 3.5 KB | 4 KB | 31 KB (11 KB gzipped) |
| Core Web Vitals (field data) | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Google data, not RUM | Opt-in | ✗ | ✗ | Chromium only |
| Load time percentiles (p50/p75/p95) | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Averages only | Web Vitals only | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| JS error tracking | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid add-on | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Realtime visitors | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Traffic breakdowns (pages, geo, devices) | ✓ |
✓ | Country-level geo | Country-level geo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Country-level geo |
| Goals / custom events | ✗ |
✓ | Events, no funnels | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Events only | ✓ | ✗ |
| Analytics data retention | 3 mo - 5 yr by plan |
3-5 yr | Forever | While subscribed | 24 mo raw on Cloud | 6 mo - 5 yr by plan | Not documented | Unlimited | 6 mo, sampled |
| Self-hostable | ✗ |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Enterprise only | ✗ |
Comparison based on publicly available information as of July 2026. Features and pricing change frequently, so please verify current details on each provider’s website.
Pick your current tool for a side-by-side breakdown and the honest trade-offs.
A free plan you can use commercially, with status pages included. UptimeRobot's free tier is for personal use only.
A permanent free plan and paid plans from $9 per month. Pingdom offers only a time-limited trial.
Focused uptime monitoring and status pages, without paying for logging and observability add-ons you may not need.
Entry plans start at $24.49 with 60-second checks. StatusCake keeps its 30-second checks for the pricier Business tier.
Monitoring and status pages in one tool from $9 per month. Statuspage starts at $29 and does not monitor anything.
Uptime monitoring and status pages for a flat $9 per month. incident.io runs no uptime checks and charges per seat.
A focused uptime tool instead of an enterprise suite, with 30-second checks as the standard.
Commercial use allowed on the free plan and 30-second checks, versus 60-second minimums.
Hosted checks from 15 locations, no server to maintain. Uptime Kuma is free but self-hosted and watches from a single machine.
Monitoring and a status page in one hosted tool. Cachet is a self-hosted status page that runs no checks of its own.
Flat plans with status pages included. Cronitor bills $2 per monitor plus $5 per user, and brand-free status pages cost extra.
Opsgenie shuts down in April 2027. Pulsetic gives ex-Opsgenie teams monitoring, phone and SMS alerts and a status page in one tool.
Monitoring, phone alerts and status pages from $9 flat. PagerDuty charges per user and relies on other tools for detection.
A real free plan instead of a 10-day trial. Oh Dear starts at $15 for 5 monitors, with SMS requiring your own Vonage account.
Flat plans from $9 instead of a $210-a-month annual commitment. Status pages on your own domain, included rather than embedded.
One flat price instead of three metered products. Checkly bills monitoring, status pages and AI analysis separately, per check run.
Full HTTP checks and subscriber emails on status pages. HetrixTools monitors GET requests only and its pages cannot email anyone.
Freshping is shutting down. Pulsetic is an actively maintained replacement with 30-second checks and status pages included.
Plausible counts your visitors. Pulsetic shows what they experienced, with Core Web Vitals, load times and uptime checks in one $9 tool.
A real free plan and performance data with every pageview. Fathom starts at $15 after a 7-day trial and does not measure page speed.
You both chose privacy. Pulsetic adds what Simple Analytics leaves out: real visitor load times, Core Web Vitals and uptime monitoring.
A tracker under 4 KB instead of a full suite to host and maintain. Matomo's script weighs 22 KB or more and sets cookies by default.
Performance data by default, plus uptime checks and status pages. Umami's Web Vitals are opt-in and it does not monitor downtime.
A privacy-first pageview counter and a performance monitor do different jobs. Pulsetic adds load times, Core Web Vitals and uptime.
Both trackers are small and cookieless. Pulsetic spends its beacon on performance: Core Web Vitals, load time percentiles and uptime.
Free, but vitals come from Chromium only, data is sampled and history stops at six months. Pulsetic keeps full data up to five years.
Pulsetic is built as a focused alternative to the major uptime monitors and status page tools. It runs 30-second checks across HTTP(S), SSL, keyword, ping, port, TCP, domain and cron or heartbeat monitoring, includes fully customizable status pages, and sends alerts through Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, SMS, phone call and webhooks. Paid plans start at $9 per month and the free plan allows commercial use. The tables on this page compare it feature by feature against 18 tools so you can see where it fits.
Pulsetic's paid plans start at $9 per month. That sits alongside UptimeRobot (around $8), Pingdom ($16), StatusCake ($24.49), Better Stack ($30) and Statuspage by Atlassian ($29). Unlike several of these, Pulsetic includes status pages, custom domains and its full set of alert integrations in that entry price rather than reserving them for higher tiers or paid add-ons.
Yes. Pulsetic's free plan permits commercial use, so a business or revenue-generating site can stay on it. That is a real difference from UptimeRobot, whose free plan is limited to personal, non-commercial use after a late-2024 terms change, and from tools like Pingdom, StatusCake or Uptrends that offer only a time-limited trial.
Pulsetic checks every 30 seconds on every plan. Many alternatives default to 60-second checks and reserve 30-second checks for their most expensive tier. Better Stack also offers 30-second checks; UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake, Uptime.com and Uptrends generally start at 60 seconds or slower unless you upgrade.
Pulsetic includes fully customizable status pages with custom domains, colors, logo, subscriber email notifications and status badges in its core product. Some tools bundle status pages (Better Stack, StatusCake, Site24x7, Uptime.com), some sell them as paid add-ons, and some (like Statuspage by Atlassian or Cachet) are status pages that run no monitoring of their own. The status page section of the full table shows exactly what each tool offers.
Pulsetic sends both SMS and phone call alerts, alongside email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram and webhooks. Several alternatives charge extra for SMS, meter it by credits, or ask you to connect your own gateway. Oh Dear, for example, routes SMS through your own Vonage account. Phone call alerts in particular are missing from many tools in this list.
Freshping was discontinued by Freshworks in 2026, and Opsgenie reaches end of life in April 2027. Pulsetic is actively maintained and gives teams leaving those tools monitoring, phone and SMS alerts, and a status page in one product. There is no one-click import, but re-adding your URLs usually takes well under an hour.
Not a drop-in one. Tools like Plausible, Fathom and Simple Analytics answer marketing questions: visitors, referrers, campaigns, goals and conversions. Pulsetic's Real User Monitoring answers performance questions: real load times, Core Web Vitals and how pages behaved for actual visitors, combined with uptime monitoring and status pages. Pulsetic does not track goals, custom events, funnels or UTM campaigns. Both scripts are small and cookieless, so many teams simply run them side by side.
No. The tracking script sets no cookies, writes nothing to localStorage and assigns no client-side visitor identifier. It is under 4 KB, sends a single beacon per pageview and collects timing data from every visit without sampling. Whether your site needs a consent banner still depends on your overall setup and legal requirements.
Pulsetic reports LCP, CLS, INP and FCP from real visitors on every plan, including the free one. Cloudflare Web Analytics includes vitals, but only from Chromium-based browsers and on sampled data. Umami added Web Vitals in 2026 as an opt-in. Among the uptime tools, Better Stack, Site24x7, Uptime.com and Cronitor include vitals in their RUM products. Plausible, Fathom, Simple Analytics, GoatCounter and Pirsch do not measure performance, and Matomo's SEO Web Vitals plugin pulls Google PageSpeed scores rather than measuring your actual visitors.
Each comparison is based on publicly available pricing and feature information, reviewed regularly, and dated in the footnote of every table. Features and pricing change often, so we note the review date and recommend confirming current details on each provider's own website before you decide.
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