| Price from | $5/mo | $16.50/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 12 | 5 |
| Spec score · Uptime Monitoring Software | 8.8 (#5) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Spec score · Website Monitoring Software | 8.8 (#6) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Spec score · Uptime monitoring services | 8.7 (#9) | 9.1 (#6) |
| Alert channels | email,SMS,webhook | Email,SMS,push notifications,Slack,PagerDuty,Opsgenie,VictorOps,HipChat,webhooks |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Server monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| SSL expiry alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Status pages | Users can publish branded public status pages on a Montastic subdomain with incidents, maintenance notices, and subscriber notifications. | Public status pages are included in all plans and can show current status and historical data. |
| Uptime checks | The service checks HTTP, HTTPS, ping, and network ports from multiple global locations. | Uptime monitoring checks websites, applications, and servers from more than 100 servers worldwide. |
| Webhooks | Webhooks can trigger customer scripts in real time when monitoring events occur. | State-change webhooks send HTTP POST requests with JSON payloads when uptime or transaction checks change state. |
| What it does | Montastic monitors websites continuously and sends email, SMS, or webhook alerts when a monitored service fails. | Pingdom provides synthetic and real-user monitoring for website and web-application uptime, speed, transactions and visitor experience. |
