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Checkly pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Checkly (checklyhq.com) is a uptime monitoring tool. Four product lines (Detect, Communicate, Resolve, Platform) are each priced per month by tier, with uptime monitors counted per monitor and API and browser check runs metered monthly with overage.. Free plan: Hobby (Detect): 1 user, 10 uptime monitors at 2-minute checks, 10,000 API and 1,000 browser runs a month; no card needed to start..

What Checkly costs

  • 20 monitors, 1-min: $24/mo (Detect Starter $24/mo billed annually (no monthly rate on the page). Starter allows 50 uptime monitors at 1-minute checks with email, Slack and webhook alerts, and 3 users, so 20 monitors fit. Hobby fails (10 monitors, 2-minute minimum). Uptime monitors are billed by monitor count, not per run, so the 864,000-run per-check rule does not apply; API runs (25,000 included on Starter) cover only API and multistep checks.)
  • Status page: $30/mo (Communicate Team $30/mo billed annually: 50 components, 1,000 subscribers, custom domain, incident automation and maintenance windows. Communicate Starter ($9; 25 components, 500 subscribers, custom domain) lacks incident automation and maintenance windows, so it cannot carry the scenario's incident and maintenance notices. Hobby has 250 subscribers and no custom domain.)
  • 20 cron jobs: $24/mo (Detect Starter $24/mo billed annually. Heartbeats count against the same uptime-monitor quota (50 on Starter), so 20 cron monitors fit with no extra charge. Hobby's 10-monitor limit fails.)

Plan compared: Detect Starter at $24/mo billed annually: 50 uptime monitors at 1-minute checks, with email, Slack and webhook alerts.. 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.

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).

Checkly price hikes

No price hikes on record for Checkly.

Alternatives to Checkly

Checkly is the cheapest uptime monitoring tool we track at 20 website monitors checked every minute. The others:

Checkly alternatives: 2 uptime monitoring tools compared, at every size.

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)

Sources

Pricing page: checklyhq.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices and limits come from the official pricing page's static HTML (checked 2026-10-17); only annual-billed prices appear, and the page does not say whether the Platform line must be bought with Detect. A CostBench tracker claims the top plan rose from $30 to $64 on 2026-09-12, but its only cited source is the live pricing page, so no change is recorded.