Pingdom vs Sematext Experience
Pingdom
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| Figure | Pingdom | Sematext Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $16.50/mo | $8.10/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 7 |
| Spec score · Internet Performance Monitoring Software | 8.8 (#3) | 8.4 (#8) |
| Alerting | Alerts can be delivered by email, SMS, push notification or connected incident-management applications. | Alerts can target performance metrics and Apdex, with priorities and notification routing. |
| Integrations | Native alert integrations named by Pingdom include Slack, VictorOps, Opsgenie and PagerDuty. | The Experience page says Sematext integrates with over 100 cloud providers; the integrations page lists React, Vue.js, Angular, and Ember support for Experience. |
| Notable news | Pingdom announced it was joining SolarWinds on June 18, 2014, with founder Sam Nurmi describing the deal as a way to expand monitoring and performance products. | Sematext announced Browser Memory Usage for Experience on November 9, 2020. |
| Public API | Pingdom offers a RESTful HTTP API using bearer API tokens over HTTPS and documents it with an OpenAPI 3.0 specification. | Sematext Cloud provides a REST API authenticated with an account API key, supporting remote app creation and alert-rule management. |
| Rating on GetApp | 4.5 out of 5 from 78 reviews | 4.8 out of 5 from 29 reviews |
| Rating on TrustRadius | 8 out of 10 from 123 reviews and ratings | 9 out of 10 from 2 reviews |
| Support | The site links to customer support and support tickets and lists a sales contact phone number. | Sematext says all plans include live-chat and email support, while Standard and Pro also include phone support and a dedicated account manager. |
| Trial | The site offers a fully functional 30-day free trial that includes synthetic monitoring and RUM. | The product offers a 14-day free trial without requiring a credit card. |
| What it does | Pingdom provides synthetic and real-user monitoring for website and web-application uptime, speed, transactions and visitor experience. | Sematext Experience measures website and web-app performance and user satisfaction directly in visitors’ browsers. |
Plans
Pingdom
- Real User Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Synthetic Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Real User Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- Synthetic Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
Sematext Experience
- Experience Startup$8.10 a month
- Experience — Startup (annual billing)$8.10 a month
- Experience — Startup$9 a month
- Experience — ProPrice not published
- Experience ProPrice not published
- Experience — StandardPrice not published
- Experience StandardPrice not published
In their own words
Sematext Experience
Sematext Experience has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.