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Pingdom Alternative

StillUp vs Pingdom

Industry veteran — enterprise pricing, complex for small teams.

Pingdom starts at From $15/mo · StillUp starts free

Why people look for Pingdom alternatives

Starts at $15/mo but the entry plan is very limited
Meaningful plans start at $40–$80/mo — well beyond indie founder budgets
Status page is a separate add-on, not included by default
No Discord or Telegram alerts
Overkill for simple HTTP monitoring needs

Pingdom vs StillUp — feature by feature

FeaturePingdomStillUp
Starting price$15/mo (limited)Free
Full-featured price$40–$80/mo$9/mo
Status page includedAdd-on✓ Included
Custom domain
Discord alerts
Telegram alerts
Free plan

What you get with StillUp

1-min checks, free

Every plan including free checks your endpoints every 60 seconds.

All alert channels

Email, Slack, Discord, and Telegram on every plan. No paywalls.

Custom domain

status.yoursite.com on all plans. SSL provisioned automatically.

Beautiful status page

Public status page your users will actually trust and bookmark.

Incident management

Post timestamped updates as incidents unfold. Full public timeline.

2-minute setup

Add a URL, configure alerts, share your status page. That's it.

Bottom line

Pingdom is a well-established tool with strong multi-location monitoring and detailed performance reports. But at $40–80/mo for a meaningful plan — with the status page as an add-on — it's simply not priced for indie SaaS founders. StillUp gives you 95% of what most founders actually use for $9/mo.

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