Pinger Man vs SolidPing
Pinger Man
pingerman.com
SolidPing
solidping.ioSide by side
| Figure | Pinger Man | SolidPing |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1/mo | €5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 5 |
| Spec score · Website Monitoring Software | 7.9 (#29) | 8.7 (#8) |
| Alerts | Downtime notifications are available through email, SMS, Slack, Twitter, and webhooks. | 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. |
| Monitoring | Pinger Man monitors website uptime and response time, domains, SSL certificates, ports, DNS, ping, keywords, and website defacement. | It supports 40 check types, including HTTP, TCP, DNS, databases, email servers, Docker, Kubernetes, headless-browser and custom JavaScript checks. |
| Status pages | Users can create public status pages showing real-time service status, uptime statistics, downtime incidents, and response times. | Public status pages support sections, subscribers, incident updates, and per-check uptime and response-time metrics; custom domains are metered by plan. |
| Support | The About page says email support is available and that the team usually responds the same day. | The maker lists [email protected] and GitHub Issues as support routes. |
Plans
SolidPing
- FreeFree
- Starter€5 a month
- Pro€15 a month
- Scale€45 a month
- Self-hostedFree
In their own words
Pinger Man
Pinger Man has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
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.