# FREE alternative to Pingdom: Get 50 monitors totally free. UptimeRobot is a **FREE, high-quality alternative** to Pingdom. Start monitoring your service with 50 monitors and up to 12 integrations. No credit card required! Currently, we keep an eye on **7,570,000** monitors for more than **3.2M+** users and companies. - - - - - ## Why should you consider UptimeRobot over Pingdom? Choosing UptimeRobot over Pingdom is a great decision if you’re looking for a monitoring solution filled with features and integrations at an affordable price. ### Easy-to-use web and mobile app UptimeRobot is much easier to configure than Pingdom, with everything you need in one place. Configure and edit all your monitors or manage your status pages in just a few clicks. ### An affordable Pingdom alternative Compared to Pingdom, UptimeRobot offers far more bang for your buck, with more monitors at a better price. For example, you’d pay almost 3 times more for 200 monitors with Pingdom. ### Responsive and available support UptimeRobot users appreciate our fast and solutions-based support. With average chat first response times of around two minutes, it's quick and easy to connect when you need assistance. ### Don't just take our word for it. - **It's the most simple and easy monitoring app** I know and it's made my daily life much easier. @levelsio, maker of NomadList.com, RemoteOK.io and others - I use UptimeRobot to **get push notifications whenever my website goes DOWN**. It's really easy and quick to set up and requires no extra changes to your website. @marckohlbrugge, maker of BetaList.com, StartUp.jobs and others - We strive for minimal downtime, but if something goes wrong UptimeRobot makes sure that we know about it quickly. We switched to using UptimeRobot years ago as they offered the same services we were getting from a different provider but at a **fraction of the cost**. [4everproxy.com](https://4everproxy.com/) - I've been using UptimeRobot for years as a cost-effective way to quickly alert me when my sites were down - and when they were back up. ~ Steve "ardalis" Smith, Software Architect ## UptimeRobot vs. Pingdom: Quick comparison. | Feature | UptimeRobot | Pingdom | |-----------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------| | Free plan | Yes | Trial only | | Price for 100 monitors | $29 / month | $77.50 / month | | E-mail, SMS & push alerts | Included | Included | | Voice call alerts | Included | Not available | | Slack & webhook integrations | Included | Not native | | Status pages | Up to 100 or unlimited | 1 | | User interface | Easy-to-use for everyone | Technical and complicated| Keeping an eye on the availability of your website and other services is important. That's why you'll want to choose a tool that's easy to use and offers many ways to notify you if and when an incident occurs. UptimeRobot has a transparent user interface designed to keep things simple and efficient. ## Integrations: Pingdom vs. UptimeRobot. **Pingdom officially supports only Slack and webhooks. 👎** They will send you to 3rd party support for other notification apps. With UptimeRobot there are up to 12 native integrations included, depending on the plan you choose. ### Slack Slack messages are a great way to inform the entire team of a downtime. ### Zapier Integrate your Zapier account to get alerted right away. ### PagerDuty Send up & down events and auto-resolve your incidents in PagerDuty. [Integration guide](https://uptimerobot.com/integrations/pagerduty/) ### Telegram Telegram messages are a great way how to stay alerted. ### SMS Get alerted instantly by SMS, even when you are offline! ## What makes UptimeRobot special. ### Reliable cron job monitoring. Cron job monitoring, also known as Heartbeat monitoring, is another effective way of tracking a system's health. You can also monitor intranet devices connected to the internet that will be sending requests to our servers. This feature is not offered by Pingdom. ## Modern and customizable status pages. While Pingdom offers just one status page per plan, UptimeRobot users have the option of upgrading to more, and with custom domains. This way you can have multiple status pages for different websites, or create a password-protected internal status page. ## Simple & powerful mobile app. Whereas Pingdom lacks a mobile app for both iOS and Android, UptimeRobot has developed modern, well-designed, and fully functional apps for both main operating systems. Within these mobile apps, users can manage notifications, edit monitors, manage their plans, and use critical alerts to catch every downtime. ### Generous FREE plan Keep using UptimeRobot for free! We offer generous free plan with 50 monitors, alerts via email, SMS, calls, push notifications, basic integrations, 5-minute intervals and 1 status page included. ### No technical knowledge needed Using UptimeRobot doesn't require any expertise in DevOps or other technical fields. All you need is your website, IP address, or whatever else you want to monitor. ### Response times info included See your response times in a chart to reveal performance hiccups. ### Plan the maintenance Set up maintenance windows to prevent alarms during the planned maintenance of your service. ## Why people love UptimeRobot. The features of the Uptime Robot App & Dashboard are excellent. Since we have begun working with them for several years now, there have been no problems. Everything is simple to set up and utilize, which is great for our business's digital marketing efforts and the numerous clients we serve. Generous 50 free monitors set at 5 min intervals. ## Save about 60% with UptimeRobot. ## Pingdom: Frequently asked questions. - Yes, while Pingdom offers only a free trial, UptimeRobot provides a lifetime free plan with 50 monitors. - Yes, unlike Pingdom, UptimeRobot offers a modern and well-designed mobile app for iOS and Android, allowing you to access and manage your monitors and alert contacts.