ProxyKit gives you 50 free monitors, status pages, and incident tracking. Pro is $9/mo for unlimited monitors — not $44. No credit card to start.
Start Monitoring Free →Set up your first monitor in 30 seconds. No account needed.
Pingdom was acquired by SolarWinds and now charges $15/month for just 10 monitors on their starter plan. Their Professional plan jumps to $44/month. For indie developers and small teams who just need uptime checks, that's enterprise pricing for a basic feature. ProxyKit gives you 50 monitors free — and unlimited for $9/mo.
Side-by-side comparison of what you actually get on each platform.
| Feature | ProxyKit | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 50 monitors Winner | No free plan |
| Starter monitors | 50 (free) | 10 ($15/mo) |
| Check interval (basic) | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Check interval (paid) | 1 minute | 1 minute |
| Status pages | Free ✓ Winner | Paid only |
| Incident tracking | Automatic Winner | Manual |
| Email alerts | Pro ($9/mo) | All plans |
| Response time charts | Free ✓ | All plans |
| Signup required | No Winner | Yes + 14-day trial |
| Real user monitoring (RUM) | Not available | Included |
| Transaction monitoring | Not available | Included |
| Pro price | $9/month 80% less | $44/month |
| Pro monitors | Unlimited Winner | 50 |
Simple pricing. No enterprise sales calls.
Paste a URL, start monitoring. No account creation, no 14-day trial, no credit card. You get a private dashboard link — bookmark it, that's your access. Pingdom requires signup and a trial period.
$0 free, $9 Pro. That's it. No "contact sales" upsell, no annual contract required. Pingdom's SolarWinds ownership means enterprise pricing for everyone — even solo devs.
Beautiful public status pages auto-generated from your monitors. Share with your team or users. Pingdom only includes status pages on paid plans.
ProxyKit gives you 50 monitors at $0/month. Pingdom's cheapest plan gives you 10 monitors at $15/month. Even ProxyKit Pro's unlimited monitors at $9/mo costs less than Pingdom's starter.
Yes. The free plan includes 50 monitors with 5-minute check intervals, public status pages, automatic incident tracking, and response time charts. No credit card required, no time limit, no signup. Pingdom has no free plan at all.
For basic HTTP uptime checks, ProxyKit covers what 90% of developers need: ping a URL every 1-5 minutes, get alerted when it's down, show a status page. Pingdom adds RUM and transaction monitoring — useful for large teams, but overkill (and overpriced) for most use cases.
Yes. Add your URLs to ProxyKit and you're live in seconds. Run both tools in parallel during your transition. Once you're satisfied, cancel Pingdom and save $420+/year.
Pingdom has Real User Monitoring (RUM), transaction/browser testing, and more integration options. If you need those enterprise features, Pingdom may be worth it. If you just need uptime monitoring, status pages, and alerts — ProxyKit does that for free or $9/mo.
Unlimited monitors, 1-minute check intervals, email alerts, custom status page domains, and priority support. $9/month — 80% less than Pingdom Professional at $44/month.
Pingdom was acquired by SolarWinds, an enterprise software company. Their pricing reflects enterprise sales motions — per-seat licensing, annual contracts, and sales team overhead. ProxyKit is built for developers and small teams, with pricing that matches.
50 monitors. Status pages. Incident tracking. Zero signup. Zero dollars.