Checkly vs Pingdom

From $24 per month (Starter; Team is $64)

From $18 per month (10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check, 50 SMS; $16.50 annual)

Priced by check runs; browser checks cost more than API checks, and frequency multiplies the bill. Team at $64 adds 75 monitors, 30-second frequency, all 22 locations and private locations.

Priced by a calculator rather than named tiers: 50 uptime checks run about $78/month and 100 about $149, so the per-check rate falls slowly with volume. Transaction checks and Real User Monitoring are priced separately from basic uptime checks and add up.

Hobby: 10 uptime monitors, 10k API and 1k browser check runs a month across 6 locations.

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Widely used

Checkly · since 2018

Widely used

SolarWinds · since 2007

• One Playwright script serves as both an E2E test and a production monitor.
• Monitoring-as-code fits GitOps workflows and code review.
• Excellent developer experience and clear, published pricing.

• Very large global probe network with a long operating history.
• Simple to set up for basic availability monitoring.
• Combines synthetic checks with real-user monitoring.

• Playwright-centric; teams on other frameworks get less benefit.
• Browser checks at high frequency across many locations get expensive.
• Not a full observability platform — no APM or log management.

• Feature development has been slow under SolarWinds ownership.
• Transaction-check authoring is dated compared to code-first alternatives.
• Pricing is no longer competitive against newer entrants.

Engineering teams already using Playwright who want production journeys monitored.

Organisations wanting an established name for straightforward uptime monitoring.