Pingdom removed their free tier and starts at $15/mo for 10 monitors. ProxyKit gives you 50 free monitors, email alerts, public status pages, and incident tracking. No signup. No credit card.
Start Monitoring Free →No account required. Paste a URL, you're live.
What you get on each platform, side by side.
| Feature | ProxyKit (Free) | Pingdom (from $15/mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 50 monitors Winner | No free plan |
| Starting price | $0/mo Winner | $15/mo |
| Monitors included | 50 free 5x more | 10 (Basic plan) |
| Check interval | 5 min (free) / 1 min (Pro) | 1 min (all plans) |
| Email alerts | Free ✓ | Included ✓ |
| Status pages | Free ✓ Winner | Paid add-on ($44+/mo) |
| Incident tracking | Automatic Winner | Manual |
| Response time charts | Free ✓ | Included ✓ |
| Signup required | No — zero signup Winner | Yes + credit card for trial |
| Pro price | $9/mo 80% less | $44/mo (Professional) |
| Pro monitors | Unlimited | 50 (Professional) |
| Webhook alerts | Pro | Included |
| SMS/voice alerts | Not yet | SMS included |
No credit card, no time limit, no signup. Just paste a URL.
HTTP, HTTPS, or any URL. Check every 5 minutes. Get notified the moment something goes down.
FreeInstant email when a monitor goes down or recovers. Configure per-monitor or globally.
FreeShare a beautiful status page with your users. Real-time uptime data, incident timeline, uptime percentage.
FreeDowntime creates an incident automatically. Recovery resolves it. Full incident history, zero manual work.
FreeVisual response time history for every monitor. Spot slowdowns before they become outages.
FreeStart monitoring without signing up. Get a private dashboard link. Bookmark it — that's your access.
FreeNo import tool needed. Monitors are just URLs.
Enter any URL on the ProxyKit homepage. Your first monitor is live immediately.
→Add the rest of your URLs from the dashboard. Each takes ~10 seconds.
→Run both in parallel if you want. Once you're satisfied, cancel Pingdom and save $180+/year.
Yes. The free plan includes 50 monitors with 5-minute check intervals, email alerts, public status pages, automatic incident tracking, and response time charts. No credit card, no time limit, no signup needed. Pingdom has no free plan at all.
Pingdom starts at $15/month for 10 monitors with 1-minute checks. Their Professional plan is $44/month for 50 monitors. ProxyKit gives you 50 monitors free. ProxyKit Pro is $9/month for unlimited monitors. That's a $180–$420+ annual saving.
No. Paste a URL, get a monitor. You'll receive a private dashboard link — bookmark it. That's it. No email, no password, no account creation. Pingdom requires an account and a credit card for their 14-day trial.
No. Pingdom removed their free tier entirely. The cheapest option is $15/month for 10 monitors. They recently removed features from lower tiers too. ProxyKit gives you 50 monitors, status pages, and incident tracking for free — permanently.
Just add your URLs to ProxyKit — each monitor takes ~10 seconds. Run both tools in parallel during transition. Once you're satisfied, cancel Pingdom. No import tool needed since monitors are just URLs.
No. Our pricing model works at $9/mo. We have no investors demanding growth at any cost. The free tier stays free. Pro stays $9.
50 monitors. Status pages. Incident tracking. Zero signup. Zero dollars.