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Head-to-head · Status Tracking

Pingdom vs Uptime.com

  • Updated Oct 2026
  • Both researched from official sources
  • 1 check side by side
Higher score Pingdom #4 in Status Tracking 8.9/10 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Free trial✓ 0 of 2 features Visit Pingdom
Uptime.com #7 in Status Tracking 8.6/10 Paid ✓ 0 of 2 features Visit Uptime.com

Pingdom leads on 0 checks, Uptime.com on 0, and 1 is even. Who comes out ahead on the 1 yes/no, price and count check where we have data for both products. The editor score weighs everything else too.

Our verdict

  • Highest scorePingdom · 8.9/10
  • Free trialonly Pingdom

Pingdom scores higher on our rubric for status tracking: 8.9 against 8.6 out of 10; our editors rank them #4 and #7.

Pingdom is the better fit for teams prioritizing synthetic and real-user monitoring. Uptime.com is the better fit for teams seeking low-cost, multi-protocol monitoring.

  • Pingdom fits best

    Teams prioritizing synthetic and real-user monitoring

  • Uptime.com fits best

    Teams seeking low-cost, multi-protocol monitoring

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Side by side

Feature Pingdom 8.9/10 Visit ↗ Uptime.com 8.6/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score 8.9 8.6
Ranking #4 in Status Tracking #7 in Status Tracking
Best for Teams prioritizing synthetic and real-user monitoring Teams seeking low-cost, multi-protocol monitoring
Pricing model Paid Paid
Starting price — $9/mo
Free plan — Not checked yet
Free trial 30 days —
Deployment Cloud, Mobile Cloud
Platforms Web, iOS, Android Web
Integrations 9 integrations 10 integrations
Features Pingdom 0/2 · Uptime.com 0/2
Hosted status page Not checked yet Not checked yet
API monitoring Not checked yet Not checked yet
Specs
Minimum check interval Not checked yet 1 sec
Alert channels Email, SMS, push notifications, Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, VictorOps, HipChat, webhooks Email, SMS, mobile app push notifications, voice call, third-party integrations, webhooks
Monitor limit Not checked yet Not checked yet
Check locations Not checked yet Not checked yet
Our review
Pros
  • Checks uptime from more than 100 locations, as often as every minute
  • Combines synthetic transactions, page speed, and real-user monitoring
  • Offers configurable alerts, public status pages, and root-cause tools
  • Monitors websites, APIs, transactions, page speed, and network protocols
  • One-minute checks, SSL expiry alerts, and expected-string validation
  • Status pages, SLA reports, and integrations including Slack and PagerDuty
Cons
  • No free plan; pricing is handled through sales
  • Monitoring breadth may exceed the needs of teams seeking a simple status page
  • The listed plans separate synthetic monitoring from real-user monitoring
  • The $9/month offer does not show its check quota or location count
  • Monitoring breadth may exceed the needs of teams focused only on websites
  • Pricing details beyond the Website Monitoring offer are not presented
Our verdict

Pingdom, from SolarWinds, monitors website and application availability and performance for technical teams, developers, marketers, and IT or web operations professionals. Its coverage spans uptime checks from more than 100 global…

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Uptime.com brings website, API, and infrastructure availability checks together for engineering, operations, and SRE teams. Its scope ranges from HTTP(S) checks to TCP and UDP ports, ping, DNS, SSH, FTP, SMTP, and IMAP. Checks can run at…

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  1. PingdomStatus Tracking 8.9Pricing on request · 30-day trial
  2. Uptime.comStatus Tracking 8.6Paid

Strengths and trade-offs

  • Pingdom — where it wins

    • Checks uptime from more than 100 locations, as often as every minute
    • Combines synthetic transactions, page speed, and real-user monitoring
    • Offers configurable alerts, public status pages, and root-cause tools

    Where it doesn't

    • No free plan; pricing is handled through sales
    • Monitoring breadth may exceed the needs of teams seeking a simple status page
    • The listed plans separate synthetic monitoring from real-user monitoring

  • Uptime.com — where it wins

    • Monitors websites, APIs, transactions, page speed, and network protocols
    • One-minute checks, SSL expiry alerts, and expected-string validation
    • Status pages, SLA reports, and integrations including Slack and PagerDuty

    Where it doesn't

    • The $9/month offer does not show its check quota or location count
    • Monitoring breadth may exceed the needs of teams focused only on websites
    • Pricing details beyond the Website Monitoring offer are not presented

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Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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