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# Pingdom alternative: Uptimely vs Pingdom

Looking for a Pingdom alternative? Pingdom is being folded into SolarWinds Observability. SolarWinds' own migration documentation describes replicating customer accounts onto SolarWinds Observability Digital Experience with a 30-to-60-day transition period, after which the Pingdom account becomes read-only for viewing history. If you are reading this because you got that email, this page compares what you have with what Uptimely does. It does so fairly, and it names the migration's own documented limits rather than glossing over them.

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## Where Pingdom is strong

Pingdom's long operating history is a real advantage, and its synthetic monitoring runs from 100+ global locations at 1-minute check intervals with page-speed and transaction (advanced) checks and real-user monitoring (RUM). That synthetic and RUM capability is what SolarWinds is carrying forward into SolarWinds Observability Digital Experience — so if the wider SolarWinds observability suite is where your team is heading anyway, staying put is a reasonable answer and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.

## Where Uptimely differs

Three of the migration's documented limits are the practical reasons to look elsewhere: historical monitoring data is not moved across (it stays in the read-only Pingdom account), text message/SMS alerts are not currently available in SolarWinds Observability, and there is a transition to sit through at all. Uptimely sends SMS alongside Slack, Discord, email, voice call and web push, and keeps your check history in the account you are using. On price, Pingdom advertises a 30-day free trial and bills synthetic monitoring by check volume with RUM priced separately by pageviews; Uptimely has a free plan at $0 and a flat Pro plan at $29/month with unlimited monitors and status pages, plus incident management, on-call escalation and OTLP logs/traces/metrics.

| Feature               | Uptimely                                         | Pingdom                                                                     |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Product status        | Actively developed; no migration to sit through  | Moving to SolarWinds Observability; the Pingdom account then goes read-only |
| Your existing history | Stays in the account you use                     | Not moved in the migration — viewable in the read-only Pingdom account      |
| Telemetry / APM       | OTLP logs, traces & metrics; Prometheus /metrics | Real-user monitoring (RUM); no OTLP logs/traces                             |
| Self-hosting          | No (SaaS)                                        | No (SaaS)                                                                   |

Pingdom's Synthetic Monitoring price ($18/month billed monthly, $16.50/month billed annually), 10 uptime monitors, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS alerts are quoted from https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/ and its own pricing renderer, fetched 2026-10-22\. Its 1-minute minimum interval and one public status page per organization are documented at https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success\_center/pingdom/content/topics/what-is-a-check-.htm and https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success\_center/pingdom/content/topics/public-status-page.htm, fetched the same day. Migration facts are quoted from https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success\_center/observability/content/intro/websites/migrate-pingdom.htm, re-read 2026-10-22\. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans.

## Pricing and plan limits (October 2026)

[Compare every vendor’s uptime monitoring pricing](https://getuptimely.com/uptime-monitoring-pricing). Each verified cell links to its source and check date.

__Published free and entry paid plans. Prices are USD, billed monthly, unless the row says otherwise. Free / paid refers to the plans named in that row. — means not published or not verified in the linked sources. Scroll horizontally to compare every column.__
| Vendor                                                                                                                                                                                 | Free tier                                                                                             | Entry paid plan (USD/month)                                                                           | Minimum uptime check interval                                                                                                                                          | Monitors included                                                                                                                           | Status pages                                                                                                                                                                                          | On-call and alerting                                                                                                                                  |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Uptimely](https://getuptimely.com/pricing)Hosted plans per project. Pro includes 25 members. Aggregate outbound check budgets: 10/minute on Free and 5000/minute on Pro. SMS/voice quotas are not published. | Yes — $0; 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 members[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | Pro $29/month USD, billed monthly[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22               | **Free:** 60 seconds[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22**Paid:** 60 seconds[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22                   | **Free:** 10[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22**Paid:** Unlimited[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** 1; 1000 subscribers/page[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22**Paid:** Unlimited; 25000 subscribers/page[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22             | Incidents, alerts & on-call on Free; Everything in Free on Pro. SMS/voice quotas not published.[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 |
| PingdomSynthetic Monitoring entry bundle; RUM is separate. A 30-day trial is advertised; ongoing free-plan limits were not verified.                                                   | — not published                                                                                       | Synthetic Monitoring $18/month, billed monthly[Source](https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** — not published**Paid:** 1 minute[Source](https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success%5Fcenter/pingdom/content/topics/what-is-a-check-.htm) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** — not published**Paid:** 10 uptime monitors + 1 advanced check[Source](https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/) · 2026-10-22             | **Free:** — not published**Paid:** 1 public status page per organization[Source](https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success%5Fcenter/pingdom/content/topics/public-status-page.htm) · 2026-10-22 | Entry Synthetic: email alerts and 50 SMS alerts; voice/escalation limits not published.[Source](https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/) · 2026-10-22        |

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.

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### Is Pingdom being discontinued?

SolarWinds describes SolarWinds Observability Digital Experience as the next generation of Pingdom rather than a discontinuation. In practice its migration documentation describes replicating customer accounts onto the new platform, giving a 30-to-60-day period in which both can be used, after which the Pingdom account transitions to a read-only state for viewing historical monitoring data.

### Does my Pingdom history move to SolarWinds Observability?

No. SolarWinds' migration documentation states that historical data will not be moved over as part of the migration; it remains viewable in the read-only Pingdom account. If keeping your check history alongside your live monitoring matters, that is a reason to export what you need before the transition finishes, whichever product you move to.

### Can SolarWinds Observability send SMS alerts like Pingdom did?

SolarWinds' migration documentation states that text message or SMS alerts are not currently available in SolarWinds Observability, which lists Microsoft Teams, Slack and ServiceNow among its integrations instead. Uptimely sends SMS alerts, as well as voice calls, Slack, Discord, email and web push.

### Is Uptimely a good Pingdom alternative?

Uptimely is a good alternative for teams that want a free entry point and an integrated operations stack — status pages, incidents, and on-call alongside uptime checks — and for teams the Pingdom migration leaves without SMS alerting or without their history in the same place as their monitors. Staying with SolarWinds is the reasonable answer if you specifically need the mature global synthetic network and real-user monitoring, or if the wider SolarWinds observability suite is where your team is heading anyway.

### Does Pingdom have a free plan?

Pingdom advertises a 30-day free trial; an ongoing free plan was not published in the sources checked on 2026-10-22\. Synthetic Monitoring starts at $18/month billed monthly ($16.50/month billed annually) for 10 uptime monitors, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS alerts. Uptimely offers a free-forever plan with 10 monitors, 1 status page, and 3 team members.

### Who owns Pingdom?

Pingdom is owned by SolarWinds and is sold as part of SolarWinds' digital experience and website-monitoring offerings. Uptimely is built and operated by Devino Solutions.

### Does Uptimely include incident management and on-call like a full ops stack?

Yes. In addition to uptime monitoring and status pages, Uptimely includes incident management, on-call duty policies with escalation, and scheduled maintenance on every plan. Pingdom focuses on synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring rather than on-call and incident-response workflows.

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Verified 2026-11-08 by the Uptimely team.