Comparisons
Real prices, full feature tables and honest trade-offs against 18 uptime monitoring tools, 8 privacy-friendly analytics tools and 2 dependency monitoring 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 (USD/mo) | Free plan or trial | Check interval | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulsetic | $9 | Free plan, commercial use | 30 sec (Team plan) | |
| UptimeRobot | $13 ($12 billed annually) | Free plan (50 monitors, 5 min checks) | 60 sec (15s on Scale) | Compare → |
| Pingdom | $18 | 30 days | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Better Stack | $25 per 50 monitors | Free Plan | 30 sec | Compare → |
| StatusCake | $24.49 | Free Plan (10 monitors); 7-day trial | 60 sec | Compare → |
| Statuspage by Atlassian | $29 | Free Plan | n/a | Compare → |
| incident.io | $19/user ($15 billed annually) | Free Plan | n/a | Compare → |
| Site24x7 | $10 ($9 billed annually) | Free Plan (50 resources); 30-day trial | 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 (billed annually) | Free Plan (5 users) | n/a | Compare → |
| Oh Dear | $17 (2 monitors) | 10 days | 1 min | Compare → |
| Uptrends | $42 (billed annually) | Free Plan (1 monitor); 30-day trial | 2 min (30s Enterprise) | Compare → |
| Checkly | $24 (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 (50 monitors, 5 min checks) | 30 days | n/a | Free Plan (10 monitors); 7-day trial | Free Plan | Free Plan | Free Plan (50 resources); 30-day trial | 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 |
$13 ($12 billed annually) | $18 | n/a | $24.49 | $25 per 50 monitors | $29 | $10 ($9 billed annually) | $9 | $19/user ($15 billed annually) | $0 + your server | $0 + your server | $2/monitor + $5/user | $9.45/user (renewals only) | $21/user (billed annually) | $17 (2 monitors) | $42 (billed annually) | $24 (billed annually) | $9.95 |
| Monitoring | |||||||||||||||||||
| Check time | 30 sec (Team plan) |
60 sec (15s on Scale) | 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 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Multi-step browser checks | ✓ |
✗ | Recorder or editor | n/a | ✗ | Playwright scripts | ✗ | Recorder or Selenium | Recorder or editor | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | AI, your own API key | Recorder or scripted | Playwright scripts | ✗ |
| Choice of regional data centers | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Choose primary location (16 listed) | Regions only on Core | ✓ | 4-12 locations by plan |
| SSL monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keyword monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | API checks only | ✓ |
| Ping / ICMP monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Port monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TCP monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domain monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | RDAP TLDs only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Not documented | ✗ | ✓ |
| Cron / heartbeat monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | DIY via add-on | 5 tasks/monitor | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom HTTP requests | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | GET/HEAD only |
| Customized responses | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Downtime screenshots | ✓ |
✗ | Transaction checks only | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Transaction checks only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Browser checks only | ✓ |
| Chart annotations | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| API | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | No official REST API | ✓ | ✓ | Until Apr 2027 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in AI assistant (chat) | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | Incident drafting only | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | n/a | Paid add-on | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 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 | 3 mo to 5 yr by plan |
3 to 24 mo by plan | Unlimited (uptime) | n/a | 6 yr | 13 mo | n/a | 2 to 5 yr by plan | 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | Internal only | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| 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 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 | ✗ | ✓ | Via paid Localize app | Paid StatusIQ pages | ✗ | ✓ | Browser locale only | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Password-protected status page | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | $50/mo add-on | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | $30/mo add-on | ✓ |
| SSO-protected status page | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Notifications | |||||||||||||||||||
| Email alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Via paid gateways | ✗ | ✓ | Metered | ✓ | Via your own Vonage | 240 credits on Core | ✓ | 0 credits on Free |
| Phone call alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Via paid gateway (Plivo, SMSEagle) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 0 credits on Free |
| WhatsApp alerts | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | n/a | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Via third-party gateways (WAHA, Whapi) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Select countries | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 |
| 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 | ✓ | 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 to 5 yr by plan |
n/a | 13 months | 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Via Atlassian account | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single Sign-On (SAML) | ✓ |
✗ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | $5/user add-on | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Role-based access | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | Admin/User only | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chat | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 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 October 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 (USD/mo) | Free plan or trial | Cookieless | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulsetic | $9 | Free plan, commercial use | ✓ | |
| Plausible | $9 | 30-day trial | ✓ | Compare → |
| Fathom Analytics | $15 | 7-day trial | ✓ | Compare → |
| Simple Analytics | $20 | Free Plan (30-day history) | ✓ | Compare → |
| Matomo | $26 Cloud; $0 + your server | 21-day trial; free on-prem | Opt-in, not default | Compare → |
| Umami | $20 Cloud; $0 + your server | Free Plan (100k events) | ✓ | Compare → |
| GoatCounter | Free (donation) | Free (donation-funded) | ✓ | Compare → |
| Pirsch | $6 | 30-day trial | ✓ | Compare → |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Free | Free Plan | ✓ | 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 | $26 Cloud; $0 + your server | $20 Cloud; $0 + your server | Free (donation) | $6 | Free |
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Page timings only | Web Vitals opt-in | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built-in AI assistant (chat) | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Plugin or MCP only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Agent Lee (beta) |
| Web Analytics & RUM | |||||||||
| Cookieless tracking | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Opt-in, not default | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 to 5 yr by plan |
3-5 yr | Forever | While subscribed | 24 mo raw on Cloud | 6 mo to 5 yr by plan | Not documented | Unlimited | 6 mo, sampled |
| Self-hostable | ✗ |
✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Comparison based on publicly available information as of October 2026. Features and pricing change frequently, so please verify current details on each provider’s website.
StatusGator and IsDown follow the status pages of the services your product depends on, and so does Pulsetic’s dependency monitoring. They cover more services and more alert channels. Pulsetic costs far less per dependency and sits next to your uptime monitoring and status pages.
| Tool | Entry price (USD/mo) | Free plan or trial | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulsetic | $9 (3 dependency monitors) | Free plan (1 dependency monitor) | 4,300+ | |
| StatusGator | $79 (25 monitors) | Free plan (3 monitors, 10 alerts a month); 14-day trial | 10,640+ | Compare → |
| IsDown | $27 (15 monitors, Starter for individuals) | No free plan; 14-day trial | 6,320+ | Compare → |
Coverage, alerts, status pages and pricing for Pulsetic, StatusGator and IsDown. To be clear about the trade-off: both of them filter by component, warn from user reports and alert to Slack, while Pulsetic sends dependency alerts by email.
| Feature | Pulsetic | StatusGator | IsDown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan / trial | Free plan (1 dependency monitor) |
Free plan (3 monitors, 10 alerts a month); 14-day trial | No free plan; 14-day trial |
| Entry price (USD/mo) | $9 (3 dependency monitors) |
$79 (25 monitors) | $27 (15 monitors, Starter for individuals) |
| Price for 25 dependencies (USD/mo) | $13.40 (Solo plus 22 at $0.20) |
$79 (Starter) | $49 (Pro) |
| Dependency Monitoring | |||
| Services you can monitor | 4,300+ |
10,640+ | 6,320+ |
| Alerts filtered by severity | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Alerts filtered by component or region | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Maintenance alerts | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Early warnings from user reports | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Incident history | 90 days |
Up to 24 months by plan | Up to 24 months by plan |
| Dependency Alerts | |||
✓ |
✓ | ✓ | |
| Slack | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Webhooks | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| SMS | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| PagerDuty and Opsgenie | ✗ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Monitoring Your Own Website | |||
| Uptime monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Fastest check interval | 30 sec (Team plan) |
1 min | 1 min (Business) |
| Check locations | 3 to 15 by plan |
8 | 3 |
| Keyword monitoring | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-step browser checks | ✓ |
✗ | ✗ |
| Status Pages | |||
| Dependencies on your status page | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Custom domain | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Email updates for subscribers | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Password-protected status page | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Remove branding | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| SSO-protected status page | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| Account | |||
| Two-factor authentication | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
| API and MCP server | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
Comparison based on publicly available information as of October 2026. Features and pricing change frequently, so please verify current details on each provider’s website.
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A free plan you can use commercially, and $9 against $13 on paid. UptimeRobot keeps its free plan for non-commercial projects.
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 in one tool, from $9 per month. incident.io runs no uptime checks and charges per seat.
A focused uptime tool instead of an enterprise suite, with checks as often as every 30 seconds.
Commercial use allowed on the free plan, with three status pages on a domain you own.
Hosted checks from up to 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 monitors bundled in, not billed one by one. 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 and a status page in one tool, with phone and SMS alerts built in.
Monitoring, phone alerts and status pages in one tool. 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 $17 for 2 monitors, with SMS requiring your own Vonage account.
Flat plans from $9 for 10 monitors, where the $42 Uptrends Core plan covers one. 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 status pages that email subscribers. HetrixTools monitors GET requests only and its pages cannot email anyone.
Freshping is shutting down. Pulsetic is an actively maintained replacement, with checks as often as every 30 seconds 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, plus load times and Core Web Vitals from real visits. 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 single lightweight tracker instead of a full suite to host and maintain. Matomo 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 uses its tracker for Core Web Vitals and load time percentiles, and adds uptime checks.
Free, but vitals come from Chromium only, data is sampled and history stops at six months. Pulsetic keeps full data for up to five years.
25 dependencies for $13.40 a month instead of $79. StatusGator follows more services and alerts to chat apps, at a much higher price.
A free plan and paid plans from $9. IsDown starts at $27 for 15 monitors, and your own uptime checks count against that limit.
Pulsetic is built as a focused alternative to the major uptime monitors and status page tools. It covers HTTP(S), SSL, keyword, ping, port, TCP, domain and cron or heartbeat monitoring, and confirms a failure from a second location before alerting. The free plan includes status pages and email and webhook alerts, and allows commercial use. Paid plans start at $9 per month. Status page customization and alerts through Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS and phone call are available too, and the pricing page lists which plans include them. 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 undercuts UptimeRobot ($13), Pingdom ($18), StatusCake ($24.49), Better Stack ($25 per 50 monitors) and Statuspage by Atlassian ($29). Unlike several of these, Pulsetic includes status pages, custom domains and all of its alert channels 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 website can stay on it, with SSL monitoring, region checks, real user monitoring and three status pages on your own domain included. UptimeRobot offers its free plan for hobby and non-profit projects and asks commercial-looking accounts to verify eligibility or upgrade, and tools like Pingdom, StatusCake or Uptrends offer only a time-limited trial.
Pulsetic checks as often as every 30 seconds. Many alternatives keep that speed for pricier tiers: UptimeRobot reaches 30-second checks on its $46 Team plan, Uptrends and Checkly hold them for higher tiers, and Pingdom, StatusCake, Site24x7 and Uptime.com generally start at 60 seconds or slower unless you upgrade. Better Stack also offers 30-second checks.
Pulsetic status pages support custom colors and logo, subscriber email notifications and status badges. The free plan includes three status pages on a domain you own. 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.
Yes. Pulsetic includes SMS and phone call alert credits and sends those alerts alongside email, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram and webhooks. Several alternatives charge extra for SMS 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 sends up to two small performance beacons per pageview and collects timing data without sampling. Whether your website 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.
StatusGator, IsDown and Pulsetic all follow the public status pages of the services your product depends on and alert you when those services report an incident. StatusGator covers 10,640+ services and IsDown 6,320+, and both offer component filters, early warnings from user reports and alerts to Slack and other chat apps. Pulsetic covers 4,300+ services and alerts by email. It includes one dependency monitor on the free plan, more on the plans listed on its pricing page and $0.20 for each extra one, alongside its uptime monitoring and status pages.
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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