Pingdom vs Better Stack

From $10 per month (indicative, Synthetic starter)

From $29 per month (indicative)

Transaction checks and RUM are priced separately from basic uptime checks and add up.

Substantially cheaper than assembling Pingdom, PagerDuty and Statuspage separately.

30-day trial.

Free plan with 10 monitors at 3-minute intervals and a status page.

Widely used

SolarWinds · since 2007

Established

Better Stack · since 2021

• 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.

• Replaces three separate subscriptions with one at a lower total cost.
• Excellent status pages and incident communication out of the box.
• Fast check intervals even on modest plans.

• 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.

• Browser-based transaction monitoring is limited compared to Checkly or Datadog.
• Log management is capable but not a full observability platform.
• Younger vendor than the incumbents.

Organisations wanting an established name for straightforward uptime monitoring.

Small and mid-sized teams consolidating uptime, on-call and status pages.