Checkly alternatives
Checkly is already the cheapest uptime monitoring tool we track at 20 website monitors checked every minute ($24/mo). Here's how the other 2 compare. The closest match, Datadog, covers 92% of what Checkly does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Checkly does
Core: API testing, Scheduled browser checks, Multi-step API checks, Monitoring as code & API.
Important: Cross-browser cloud (partly), Uptime checks, Alert channels & integrations, AI incident assistance (partly).
Also has: Test run analytics (partly), Visual regression testing (partly), Page speed monitoring (partly), Open source & self-hosting (partly), SOC 2 & SSO (partly), Ping, port & DNS checks, SSL & domain expiry (partly), Cron & heartbeat monitoring (partly), Hosted status pages (partly), Subscriber notifications (partly), Private & audience pages (partly), SSO & compliance (partly), Open source & self-hosting (partly).
Alternatives to Checkly at 20 website monitors checked every minute, best match first
- UptimeRobot: $28/mo Solo 50-monitor tier; status-page emails need Team (Solo plan, 50-monitor tier, monthly billing). It covers 58% of Checkly; missing or partial: Scheduled browser checks, Multi-step API checks (partly), Monitoring as code & API (partly), AI incident assistance, Page speed monitoring. Free plan: Free: 50 monitors at 5-minute checks, one basic status page, no own domain and no heartbeat monitors..
- Atlassian Statuspage: not offered. It covers 27% of Checkly; missing or partial: Scheduled browser checks, Multi-step API checks, Monitoring as code & API (partly), Uptime checks, Alert channels & integrations (partly). Free plan: Free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members, 2 metrics, email/Slack/Teams alerts; no custom domain listed..
Other kinds of products that cover part of Checkly
- Datadog (Error & performance monitoring): covers 92% of Checkly; missing or partial: Subscriber notifications, Private & audience pages
- Better Stack (Error & performance monitoring): covers 90% of Checkly; missing or partial: Multi-step API checks (partly), Open source & self-hosting
- New Relic (Error & performance monitoring): covers 77% of Checkly; missing or partial: Alert channels & integrations (partly), Ping, port & DNS checks (partly), Cron & heartbeat monitoring, Hosted status pages, Subscriber notifications
- Grafana Cloud (Error & performance monitoring): covers 58% of Checkly; missing or partial: Scheduled browser checks (partly), Uptime checks (partly), Alert channels & integrations (partly), AI incident assistance, Ping, port & DNS checks (partly)
- Sentry (Error & performance monitoring): covers 46% of Checkly; missing or partial: Scheduled browser checks, Multi-step API checks (partly), Monitoring as code & API (partly), Uptime checks (partly), Alert channels & integrations (partly)
Prices at every size
- Checkly: 20 website monitors checked every minute $24/mo, a status page on your own domain with 500 subscribers $30/mo, 20 monitored cron jobs $24/mo (billed annually; monthly rate not shown)
- UptimeRobot: 20 website monitors checked every minute $28/mo, a status page on your own domain with 500 subscribers $46/mo, 20 monitored cron jobs $28/mo (Solo 50-monitor tier; status-page emails need Team)
- Atlassian Statuspage: 20 website monitors checked every minute not offered, a status page on your own domain with 500 subscribers $99/mo, 20 monitored cron jobs not offered (Public pages; yearly billing only by order form)
Every price is for one account owner on the cheapest self-serve plan that fully covers each job, billed monthly: 20 HTTP(S) monitors checked every minute, a status page on your own domain with 500 email subscribers, and 20 monitored cron jobs. Free plans count when they cover the whole job and allow commercial use.
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