Freshping alternative: Uptimely vs Freshping
Looking for a Freshping alternative? Freshping is gone. Freshworks' own deprecation FAQ states that free plan accounts were disabled on 6 March 2026, that paid subscriptions were not renewed past that date, and that account data is deleted 90 days after shutdown — 4 June 2026 for the free tier. It advises customers to "consider migrating to an alternative monitoring tool in a timely manner". If you are here because your checks stopped, this page compares what you had with what Uptimely's free plan actually is — including the place where it is smaller.
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What Freshping got right
Freshping's free plan was the most generous in this category, and nothing here matches it one-for-one: 50 checks at 1-minute intervals with a public status page, free, with no card. Freshworks also wound it down properly rather than quietly — a deprecation FAQ published ahead of the date, a stated export window, and a stated deletion date, so customers could plan. That is better treatment than a silent shutdown, and it is worth saying before anything else on this page.
Where Uptimely differs
The honest headline first: Uptimely's free plan is 10 monitors, not 50, so if you were running 50 free checks no free plan replaces that, Uptimely's included. What Uptimely's $0 plan carries that Freshping's did not is the operational layer around the checks — a public status page with subscribers, the full incident lifecycle, on-call duty policies with escalation, and scheduled maintenance — plus 1-minute checks, a public REST API with an OpenAPI schema and an SDK, and OTLP logs, traces and metrics. Pro is $29/month flat for unlimited monitors and status pages. And unlike Freshping, it is a product still being developed: the reason you are reading this page is that the last one was not.
| Feature | Uptimely | Freshping |
|---|---|---|
| Product status | Actively developed | Deprecated by Freshworks — free accounts disabled 6 March 2026; no new features or major updates |
| Free tier | $0 — 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 members | Discontinued — free accounts were disabled 6 March 2026 (previously 50 checks) |
| Your existing data | Stays in the account you use | Deleted 90 days after shutdown — 4 June 2026 for free-tier accounts |
| Entry paid plan | Pro $29/mo — unlimited monitors & status pages, 25 members | Not sold — paid plans were not renewed past 6 March 2026 |
| Check frequency | 1-minute (Free and Pro) | 1-minute (free plan, before it was disabled) |
| Status pages | 1 (Free) / unlimited (Pro); custom domains | Public status page was included |
| On-call / escalation | Included on all plans, incl. Free | — (not a Freshping feature) |
| Alert channels | Slack, Discord, email, SMS, voice call, web push | Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks |
| API / SDK | Public /v1 REST API, OpenAPI 3.1 schema, SDK, MCP server | — (no public monitor-management API) |
| Telemetry / APM | OTLP logs, traces & metrics; Prometheus /metrics | — |
| Self-hosting | No (SaaS) | No (was SaaS) |
Deprecation facts (free accounts disabled 6 March 2026, paid plans not renewed past that date, data deleted 90 days after shutdown, the 4 June 2026 free-tier export deadline, and the recommendation to migrate) are quoted from Freshworks' own deprecation FAQ, read 2026-09-02 and re-read 2026-10-16 with the same wording: https://support.freshping.io/support/solutions/articles/50000011808-freshping-deprecation-frequently-asked-questions — Freshping's PLAN FIGURES (50 checks, 1-minute intervals, alert channels) are sourced from third-party trackers and archived documentation, because Freshping's own pricing and feature pages are no longer served. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans.
Uptimely's Free plan has 10 monitors, 1 status page and 1-minute checks, with no credit card. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial.
Start free →Is Freshping really shut down?
Freshworks' deprecation FAQ states that free plan accounts were disabled on 6 March 2026 and that paid subscriptions were not renewed from that date, running only to the end of their existing term. It also states that no new features or major updates will be provided, and advises customers to consider migrating to an alternative monitoring tool in a timely manner.
Can I still get my Freshping data back?
Almost certainly not. Freshworks' FAQ set the free-tier export deadline at 4 June 2026 and states that data is deleted 90 days after account shutdown, with the equivalent window for paid accounts running 90 days past the end of the subscription. If you still have access, export first and set up the replacement second.
Does Uptimely's free plan replace Freshping's?
Not on monitor count, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise: Freshping's free plan gave 50 checks and Uptimely's gives 10, along with 1 status page and 3 team members. On everything else it is a larger free plan — 1-minute checks, a public status page with subscribers, incident management, on-call escalation with duty policies, scheduled maintenance, a public REST API, and OpenTelemetry ingestion. If raw free monitor count is the only thing that matters to you, UptimeRobot's free plan is 50 monitors at 5-minute checks and is the fairer comparison.
What is the best Freshping alternative?
It depends on what you used Freshping for. If you want the same shape of product, 1-minute checks with a public status page on a free plan, Uptimely's free plan covers that for up to 10 monitors and adds incidents, on-call escalation and scheduled maintenance. If you need more than 10 free monitors and can accept 5-minute checks, UptimeRobot's free plan is 50 monitors. If you need checks from several regions today, Uptimely does not do that yet, and the last question on this page explains why.
What replaces Freshping?
Freshworks does not offer a replacement product of its own; its deprecation FAQ says customers should migrate to an alternative monitoring tool. Uptimely is one such replacement: a free plan with 1-minute checks and a public status page, plus incidents, on-call escalation and scheduled maintenance. It is smaller than Freshping's free plan on monitor count (10, not 50). If you saved a Freshping JSON export, the importer under Monitors → Import and export converts it to monitors, and the Freshping migration guide walks through the move step by step.
Are there free Freshping alternatives?
Yes. Uptimely has a free plan, which covers up to 10 monitors with 1-minute checks and a public status page. If you need more free monitors than that and can accept 5-minute checks, UptimeRobot's free plan is 50 monitors. No free plan matches Freshping's 50 checks at 1-minute intervals one-for-one, ours included.
Why did Freshping shut down?
Freshworks has not published a reason, and we are not going to invent one. What its deprecation FAQ does say is that the product is being retired, that no replacement Freshworks product is offered in its place, and that customers should migrate to an alternative monitoring tool.
How do I move my checks over?
Through the importer if you kept a file, by hand if you did not. Uptimely reads the JSON Freshping's v1 API served: drop it into Monitors → Import and export and it is converted to monitors and previewed before anything is written. Freshping's API is no longer served, so this only helps with an export you saved while the service was up, and its XML export is not parsed — the element names are documented nowhere, and guessing at them would fail quietly. Without a file, the public /v1 REST API and the @uptimely/sdk package create monitors in bulk, and the monitor wizard takes a URL and a check interval.
Does Uptimely check from multiple locations like Freshping did?
No. Uptimely probes from a single vantage point today; checking from a second network is on the roadmap and is not shipped. Freshping ran checks from multiple regions, so this is a genuine step down and you should know it before you move. What Uptimely does instead is spend its effort on not crying wolf from the one vantage it has: a monitor declares an incident only after consecutive failed checks, each of which is itself re-confirmed.