API Monitoring Tools
Alternatives to Runscope
The tools Specifiction weighs against Runscope, from its list of api monitoring tools, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.
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Dotcom-Monitor Dotcom-Monitor may suit teams that need to monitor websites or infrastructure and route alerts through one or more listed channels.
From $13.33/mo Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · iOS9.3 Visit Specs - 02 Loadster Synthetic Monitoring
Loadster suits teams that need scheduled checks for public websites, web apps, or APIs, including multi-step journeys and checks from multiple locations.
From $29/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.2 Visit Specs - 03 Sentinel
Sentinel is aimed at digital agencies, freelance developers and designers, and SaaS teams managing one or more sites.
From $14/mo Free plan Web · macOS · API · Browser extension8.8 Visit Specs - 04 Tallwatch
Tallwatch suits teams that need multi-region monitoring, incident routing, and public or private status pages.
From $14.99/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.8 Visit Specs - 05
APIContext It suits teams that need scheduled checks for APIs, AI workflows, browser journeys, or third-party services.
From $29/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.6 Visit Specs - 06
Oh Dear From €15/mo Free trial Web8.6 Visit Specs - 07
Postman Postman suits people designing, testing, documenting, or monitoring APIs, including teams that need collaboration, integrations, or API testing across multiple protocols.
From $9/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.6 Visit Specs - 08
Checkly Checkly is intended for developers, SRE and platform teams, QA engineers, and engineering managers monitoring APIs or user interfaces.
From $24/mo Free plan Web · Linux · API8.4 Visit Specs - 09
ObserveOne API Monitoring ObserveOne suits engineering teams needing synthetic API checks, assertions, alert routing, and CI integrations.
From $6/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted · Browser extension8.4 Visit Specs - 10
Assertible Assertible is aimed at QA professionals, developers, and people who operate web services.
From $25/mo Free plan Web · API8.3 Visit Specs - 11
UptimeRobot The free tier suits hobby and nonprofit projects that need up to 50 monitors and can use five-minute checks.
From $9/mo Free plan iOS · Android8.3 Visit Specs - 12
Uptrends Core is described for teams needing regional availability and performance monitoring, while Pro is aimed at SRE and Ops teams.
From $42/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · iOS8.3 Visit Specs - 13 CyberPing
CyberPing suits hobbyists, side projects, growing products, scaling teams, and large deployments needing API and multi-region monitoring.
From $49/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.2 Visit Specs - 14
HostTracker HostTracker says it is built for web agencies, hosting resellers and webmasters responsible for multiple domains.
From $4.08/mo Free plan Web · API8.2 Visit Specs - 15 Sematext Synthetics From $2/mo Free trial Web · Windows · Linux · API8.2 Visit Specs
- 16 Site24x7 API Monitoring
Site24x7 API Monitoring suits IT and DevOps teams that need to validate API responses, monitor multi-step transactions, or receive alerts about API issues.
From $109/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.2 Visit Specs - 17 PageLantern From $97/mo Free plan Web · API8.1 Visit Specs
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Apica Vanguard Web · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs - 19 Watchlog
Watchlog suits growing teams, production systems, and SaaS companies that need metrics, logs, traces, checks, and alerting together.
From $4.99/mo Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · API7.9 Visit Specs - 20
Signalog From $19/mo Free plan Web · API7.8 Visit Specs - 21
Sysmos Sysmos presents its Free plan for solo developers and personal projects, and describes the service as designed for small teams.
From $29/mo Free plan Web · Linux · API7.7 Visit Specs - 22
Uptara From $15/mo Free plan Web · API7.6 Visit Specs - 23 pingdan Free plan Web7.5 Visit Specs
- 24 Status Inspector From €79/mo Web · API7.2 Visit Specs
- 25 Uptime.com From $9/mo Web6.6 Visit Specs
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Cisco ThousandEyes Web · Windows · macOS · Android6.3 Visit Specs