Pingdom vs SolidPing
Pingdom
pingdom.com
SolidPing
solidping.ioSide by side
| Figure | Pingdom | SolidPing |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $16.50/mo | €5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 5 |
| Spec score · Website Monitoring Software | 8.9 (#4) | 8.7 (#8) |
| Spec score · Uptime Monitoring Software | 8.9 (#4) | 8.6 (#7) |
| Spec score · Uptime monitoring services | 9.1 (#6) | 9.2 (#1) |
| Alert channels | Email,SMS,push notifications,Slack,PagerDuty,Opsgenie,VictorOps,HipChat,webhooks | Slack,Discord,Microsoft Teams,Google Chat,Mattermost,Matrix,Zulip,Telegram,Email,Webhooks,PagerDuty,ntfy,Gotify,Pushover,Web Push,SMS,voice via Twilio |
| Alerts | Incident alerts can be sent by SMS, email, push notification, or webhook, and Pingdom performs a second check before alerting to filter false positives. | Alerts are available through Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Mattermost, Matrix, Zulip, Telegram, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, Web Push, and Twilio SMS or voice. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Security | SolarWinds provides a security information page linked from Pingdom's site. | The hosted service states that it uses TLS 1.2 or above in transit, storage-layer encryption at rest, application-layer encryption for selected credentials, and Argon2id password hashing by default. |
| Server monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| SSL expiry alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Status pages | Public status pages are included in all plans and can show current status and historical data. | Public status pages support sections, subscribers, incident updates, and per-check uptime and response-time metrics; custom domains are metered by plan. |
| Support | The site links to customer support and support tickets and lists a sales contact phone number. | The maker lists [email protected] and GitHub Issues as support routes. |
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
SolidPing
- FreeFree
- Starter€5 a month
- Pro€15 a month
- Scale€45 a month
- Self-hostedFree
In their own words
SolidPing
SolidPing is an open-source uptime monitoring platform available as hosted cloud software or self-hosted software. It offers 40 check types, including HTTP, TCP, DNS, databases, email servers, Docker, Kubernetes, headless-browser and custom JavaScript checks, with intervals as frequent as every 10 seconds. The product lists monitoring from six locations, server monitoring and SSL expiry alerts. Alerts can reach a wide range of chat services, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, push services, SMS or voice through Twilio. Rotation schedules, overrides, iCal feeds and multi-step escalation policies are included even on Free. Public status pages can show sections, subscribers, incident updates, uptime and response-time metrics; custom domains are metered by plan. SolidPing also offers a REST API and MCP endpoint. The self-hosted version is a Go binary using SQLite or PostgreSQL, licensed under AGPL-3.0. Hosted plans run from Free to Scale, and hosted account, monitoring and incident data and backups are stored in France on OVHcloud. SolidPing states it does not currently hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.