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Uptime, browser checks & visitor performance

UptimeMonitor360 vs Pingdom

An HTTP response, a browser journey and a real visitor measurement answer different questions. Compare the checks you will use and the volume you need for each.

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20 monitors from €9.00/month

60-second eligible checks. Annual billing is also available.

30 client workspaces on Agency

Scoped client viewers, branded status pages and scheduled reports.

1,000 browser checks/month on Business

Real-user monitoring, Site Health and Linux metrics also included within plan limits.

Compare the differences that affect your work

Getting started

UptimeMonitor360
5 free HTTP/heartbeat monitors at 5-minute intervals. Commercial use allowed.
Pingdom
Advertises a 30-day fully functional trial.

Synthetic checks

UptimeMonitor360
HTTP/API checks plus multi-step transactions and browser monitoring on Business and higher, with explicit execution quotas.
Pingdom
Uptime, page-speed analysis and transaction monitoring.

Real-user monitoring

UptimeMonitor360
5,000 events/month on Business, increasing on Agency and Scale; installation on your site is required.
Pingdom
RUM with browser, device and geographic performance views.

Where checks run

UptimeMonitor360
One public probe deployment. Simultaneous checks from multiple geographic regions are not included.
Pingdom
Advertises uptime monitoring from over 100 locations worldwide.

Try a single diagnostic

UptimeMonitor360
35 free tools for availability, DNS, TLS, redirects and other focused checks.
Pingdom
Public Website Speed Test tool.

Competitor sources: Pingdom monitoring features and trial. Figures describe the stated plans, not every feature of either product. Our prices are in EUR and include applicable VAT. Compare the final checkout term, total and taxes.

When UptimeMonitor360 fits

Consider UptimeMonitor360 when you want monitoring, bounded site-health crawls, Linux host metrics and client reporting in the same account. Business combines synthetic browser checks and a real-user event allowance; Agency adds the client-facing workflow.

Explore the client workflow

When to evaluate Pingdom

Evaluate Pingdom when broad external probe coverage and detailed visitor-performance analysis are major requirements. Compare synthetic and real-user allowances separately.

Questions to answer before subscribing

  • Do you need a repeatable synthetic journey, actual visitor measurements, or both?
  • How many monthly browser executions and visitor events will your sites generate?
  • Are geographic differences essential to your diagnosis, or is one external observation sufficient?

Test with your own endpoints

Run both services on a small set of endpoints you control. Match the interval, timeout, expected status, content assertion and alert recipient. Include a read-only authenticated API check if you need it.

  1. Compare successful observations and response-time variation.
  2. Trigger a controlled failure and recovery; compare the incident and notification timestamps.
  3. Review unknown measurements and maintenance handling.
  4. Open the report as a client with limited access and check what they can see.
  5. Confirm retention, recurring cost and cancellation before moving your monitoring.

Polling interval and notification time differ: confirmation, processing and message delivery add delay. An execution allowance is also different from a monitor allowance; frequent browser checks use more monthly executions.

Our current public coverage is one deployment. Browser monitoring is active on Business and higher, within the published quotas. SMS, voice and simultaneous multi-region checks are not sold. See all plan limits and our comparison methodology.

Check a website before you commit

35 free diagnostic tools. A point-in-time result before you set up continuous monitoring.

Open the free tools

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