Checkly vs Ghost Inspector
Checkly
checklyhq.comGhost Inspector
ghostinspector.comSide by side
| Figure | Checkly | Ghost Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $24/mo | $109/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Synthetic Monitoring | 8.4 (#7) | 8.2 (#13) |
| Integrations | The site lists integrations including Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Datadog, Grafana, Discord, Terraform, and Pulumi. | The site names GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and CircleCI integrations, and says tests can also be triggered through its REST API. |
| Intended users | Checkly presents the platform for developers, SRE and platform teams, QA engineers, and engineering managers. | The product is presented for QA testers, engineers, and product managers, including teams without dedicated QA engineers. |
| Monitoring | Its uptime monitor types include URL, TCP, DNS, ICMP, SSL, gRPC, Traceroute, and Heartbeat monitors. | Tests can be scheduled as often as every minute, with failure alerts that include screenshots and video. |
| Security | Checkly states that it is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. | Ghost Inspector says it is SOC 2 compliant across all plans, and Enterprise customers can request an audit report. |
| Support | The pricing page lists premium support, onboarding support, a dedicated customer success engineer, and 24x7 phone escalation as Enterprise features. | The company says support is available to trial users and that it replies to every question the same day. |
Plans
Ghost Inspector
- Starter$109 a month
- Growth$225 a month
- Large/Scale$449 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Checkly
Checkly is a monitoring-as-code platform for developers who need to monitor APIs and user interfaces. Its uptime monitor types include URL, TCP, DNS, ICMP, SSL, gRPC, Traceroute, and Heartbeat. Browser Checks use headless browsers to simulate interactions such as logins, checkouts, and form submissions. Playwright Check Suites run full test suites on a schedule and support custom dependencies and shared storage state. The Checkly CLI lets users write checks in code and deploy monitors from a terminal. Listed integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Datadog, Grafana, Discord, Terraform, and Pulumi. Checkly says its monitors run from the public internet without installation inside or privileged access to a customer network. It also states that it is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, with end-to-end encryption for stored data, HTTPS for network traffic, and AES256 encryption for database data at rest. The Hobby plan is free; Starter is $24 a month, and Team is $64 a month. Hobby includes 10 uptime monitors, 1,000 browser/Playwright runs, and 10,000 API runs per month.
Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.