UptimeWarden vs Pingdom (2026)

Pingdom has been part of SolarWinds since 2014 and is the name most procurement teams already know. This comparison is written by the UptimeWarden team, so read it as one vendor describing another. Where we could not verify something on Pingdom's own pages, we say so rather than fill the gap.

How Pingdom prices, as of 5 September 2026

Pingdom's pricing page does not publish a plan table. It publishes a configurator: you pick a bundle of uptime checks, "advanced" (transaction) checks and SMS credits, and the page computes a monthly figure. The bundles on offer run from 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS at the bottom to 30,000 uptime checks, 2,500 advanced checks and 1,500 SMS at the top. Real user monitoring is priced separately on the same page. Users and sites are unlimited on every bundle.

Two things follow from that. There is no free plan; there is a trial that includes both synthetics and RUM. And you cannot compare Pingdom's price to anyone else's without first deciding your exact check count, which is the point of a configurator.

We are deliberately not quoting a dollar figure here. The page renders the price with JavaScript and we will not guess at a number that changes with every slider.

How UptimeWarden prices

Five listed plans, all with the price on the page:

Plan	Monthly	Monitors	Fastest check
Free	$0	20	3 minutes
Hobby	₺150	35	2 minutes
Starter	$7	50	2 minutes
Professional	$29	100	1 minute
Enterprise	custom	unlimited	30 seconds

On every plan, other regions repeat a failed check before we alert you. Most alerts are confirmed from at least two regions, and an alert we cannot confirm is still sent, labelled unverified. Free and Hobby use a fixed threshold; Starter and above can tune it.

What each one actually checks

Pingdom covers HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping and transaction checks, plus real user monitoring for front-end performance. If you need to know how your pages feel to real visitors in real browsers, Pingdom has that and UptimeWarden does not.

UptimeWarden checks HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, UDP, SSL, DNS, ping, WebSocket, gRPC, MCP endpoints and heartbeats. Heartbeat monitoring is the one most teams end up wanting: your cron job calls a URL when it finishes, and you get paged when the call stops arriving. It is on every plan.

Incidents and status pages

Pingdom alerts and offers root-cause analysis; on-call scheduling and escalation are not part of the product, so most teams pair it with PagerDuty or Opsgenie. UptimeWarden includes on-call rotations, ordered escalation and acknowledgement from Hobby up, in the same place the monitor lives, and a public status page on every plan.

Forecasting, stated precisely

On Professional and Enterprise, UptimeWarden looks for problems that build up gradually, such as a response time that keeps creeping up or a certificate close to expiry, and shows them on the dashboard with the signals behind them. Sudden outages give no warning and are not predicted, and the product does not page you on a forecast. Pingdom does not offer forecasting.

Who should pick which

Pick Pingdom if real user monitoring is a requirement, if you already have an on-call tool you like, or if a SolarWinds contract is easier for your procurement team than a new vendor.

Pick UptimeWarden if you want the price on the page, a free plan that is not a trial, on-call and status pages bundled in, or checks that Pingdom does not run: WebSocket, gRPC, MCP, heartbeats.

If you want to see the difference on your own services, the Free plan takes 20 monitors and no card.