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UptimeRobot vs Pingdom
UptimeRobot and Pingdom are both long-running, well-known uptime monitors, and a lot of buyers end up deciding between exactly these two rather than a lesser-known third option. This page compares them directly on pricing structure, regional check mechanism, team access, and API availability, each claim sourced to the vendor's own pricing page or documentation and dated.
Flat, named pricing tiers
Partial
named tiers (Free, Solo, Team, Scale, Enterprise), but priced by billing cycle and monitor count
Don’t have
no named tiers; usage-based quantity calculators, priced separately per product, each from $16.5/mo
Free tier
Have
50 monitors, 1 auto-assigned region, 5-minute checks, $0/mo
Don’t have
no free tier; 30-day free trial only
Multiple named regions shown together per check
Don’t have
rotational: checks cycle through selected regions one at a time, per their own help docs
Don’t have
one probe-region-group per check, rotating among about 10 servers within it, per their own docs
Region selection on entry/free tier
Don’t have
auto-assigned default region only on Free; choosing specific regions needs a paid plan
Don’t have
no free tier at all; region-group choice is available from the first paid step
Public status pages bundled into the monitoring price
Have
status pages ship on every plan including Free (1 page on Free, up to unlimited on Scale)
Have
public status pages and reports are a standard Synthetic Monitoring feature, not sold separately, per their pricing page
Team member seats
Partial
notify seats a paid add-on on Solo; Team ($39/mo+) adds 3 login and 3 notify seats
Have
unlimited users included on both Synthetic and Real User Monitoring products
Webhook / integration alerting
Partial
Team and Scale plans only, per their pricing matrix
Not published
not documented on any fetched Pingdom page
REST API access
Have
included on every plan, including Free
Have
publishes a REST API (pingdom.com/api/); which tier it requires is not documented
Entry paid price point
Have
Solo, roughly $9 to $22/mo depending on billing cycle and monitor count
Have
usage-based, from $16.5/mo per product (Synthetic or Real User Monitoring), no free tier
Where RealUptime Status fits
Both UptimeRobot and Pingdom are focused, established uptime-monitoring products; neither is RealUptime Status, and this page is not built to argue RealUptime Status is the better choice than either of them. If flat pricing with no per-subscriber tiers, and a status page that shows four named regions together instead of one collapsed badge, matters for your setup, that is what RealUptime Status ships on a $0/mo Free plan with no credit card required. Whether that or one of the two products above is the better fit is a decision this page leaves to you, not one it makes for you.