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Frequently asked questions

• Is Pingdom free?

  No. Pingdom does not have a permanently free plan, only a time-limited trial, so you have to move to a paid subscription once it ends. Pulsetic, by contrast, offers a genuinely free plan that includes 10 monitors, alerts, SSL checks, and 3 status pages on your own domain. It is a practical way to keep watching your websites without a recurring bill.

• Is there a free alternative to Pingdom?

  Yes. Pulsetic is a free alternative to Pingdom that covers the essentials most teams need: 10 monitors, uptime and SSL monitoring, alerting, and 3 status pages on a domain you own. Paid plans start at just $9 per month if you later need shorter check intervals, more monitors, unlimited status pages, or extra integrations. You get to start for free and scale only when your needs grow.

• Why is Pingdom so expensive?

  Pingdom is widely seen as pricey because paid plans start around $16 per month and climb quickly as you add monitors, faster checks, and SMS alerts. Since the SolarWinds acquisition, pricing rose and the old free tier was removed, which pushed many smaller teams to look elsewhere. Pulsetic delivers comparable uptime monitoring and status pages from $9 per month, with a free plan to start.

• How does Pulsetic compare to Pingdom on price?

  Pulsetic is consistently cheaper across the board. Paid plans begin at $9 per month versus roughly $16 and up for Pingdom, and Pulsetic also has a free plan that Pingdom does not offer. For growing teams the gap widens further, since Pulsetic's paid plans pack in more monitors and unlimited status pages without the per-check costs that make Pingdom add up.

• Is Pulsetic a good alternative to Pingdom?

  Yes. Pulsetic covers the core of what people use Pingdom for, including uptime monitoring, SSL and response-time tracking, alerting, and public status pages, at a lower price and with a free tier. Its Team plan also runs checks every 30 seconds, compared with 60-second checks on Pingdom, so you can catch outages sooner. For most websites, SaaS products, and agencies it is a strong, budget-friendly replacement.

• What types of monitoring and checks does Pulsetic support?

  Pulsetic monitors HTTP and HTTPS endpoints, SSL certificates, keywords on a page, ping or ICMP, ports, TCP services, domains, and cron or heartbeat jobs. Checks can run as frequently as every 30 seconds on Team and Organization. Alerts go out by email and webhook on every plan, and by SMS, WhatsApp, phone call, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams and more from the $9 Solo plan. This gives you broad coverage from a single tool without stitching together add-ons.

• Can I move my status pages from Pingdom to Pulsetic?

  Yes. Pulsetic includes status pages on every plan, including the free one, on a custom domain you own. The free plan covers 3 of them; status badges, subscriber notifications and incident updates start on the $9 Solo plan. Switching is straightforward: recreate your monitors, point a status page at them, and connect your alert channels. The free plan has no time limit, so you can set everything up and run it alongside Pingdom before you cancel.

• Does Pulsetic include SMS and phone call alerts?

  Yes, from the $9 Solo plan, which includes 30 SMS and voice-call credits. Email and webhook alerts work on every plan, Free included, and paid plans add SMS, WhatsApp and phone calls, as well as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Telegram, so the right people hear about downtime quickly. With Pingdom, SMS alerts are usually billed as paid credits on top of your plan, which adds to the cost. Having these channels built in keeps your alerting simple and predictable.