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PingWise vs Pingdom

Pingdom has about 146 probes in 26 countries and real-browser transaction checks. PingWise has 15 probes and needs two thirds of them to agree before it pages you.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Pingdom if you need what a large, long-established vendor offers: about 146 probes in 26 countries, recorded browser transactions such as a login or a checkout, page-speed checks and real-user monitoring, all from SolarWinds. If your procurement team wants an enterprise supplier, that matters too.

Pick PingWise if you mainly need to know, reliably, that a site is down. Pingdom documents a second probe, as far away as possible, to confirm a failure. We require 10 of 15 probes on at least 3 continents and 3 providers to fail two rounds in a row, and every scheduled check runs from several cities at once. We also show WAF challenges as “blocked” rather than down, and run heartbeat monitors for cron jobs, which Pingdom documents as not offered.

The price gap is large at small sizes: the table below shows 50 monitors every minute at €7.55 a month here and €60.50 at Pingdom, with no subscription.

Start free 650,000 free credits every month.

Price per month

HTTP monitors at the given interval, on each service's cheapest plan that covers it. Annual billing where it's cheaper. Prices in each vendor's own currency, not converted. Checked 26 Oct 2026.

Service	Cheapest paid	10 × 1 min	50 × 1 min	50 × 5 min	Free tier	Locations	Before alerting
PingWise	credits from €5	free	€7.55	free	650,000 credits every month	15 cities, 6 continents	Two thirds of 15 probes (10), 3 continents, 3 providers, 2 rounds in a row
Pingdom	€14.33/mo · 10 checks, annual	€14.33	€60.50	€60.50	none · 30-day trial	~146 probes, 26 countries	One second probe, as far away as possible

PingWise prices use the rate of the credit pack a year of that usage would use up.

Features

On each service's cheapest paid plan, as documented by that vendor.

✓ documented by the vendor · – documented as not offered · n/d not found in the vendor's public documentation · text = yes, with that limit

Feature	PingWise	Pingdom
Every check from several locations at onceon every scheduled check, not only when confirming	✓	–
Confirmation before pagingwhat the vendor documents happens after a failed check	2 rounds, all 15 probes	1 second probe, far away
Confirmation must span continentsa failure in one region can't page you	✓	far-away probe
Confirmation must span providersone provider's network trouble can't page you	✓	n/d
Broken probes removed automatically	✓	✓
WAF challenge shown as “blocked”, not down; Cloudflare allow-list managed for youconnect your Cloudflare account; we keep the skip rule in place	✓	n/d
What each probe saw, in the alert	✓	root cause
Prepaid credits, no subscription	✓	–
Unlimited team memberson the cheapest paid plan	✓	✓
Telegram and webhook alertson the cheapest paid plan	✓	webhook
Slack, Teams and Discord alertson the cheapest paid plan	✓	Slack only
PagerDuty alertson the cheapest paid plan	✓	via webhook
15-second checks	verified domains	1 min
Ping (ICMP) to any host	✓	✓
SMS and phone alerts	soon	SMS
Public status pageswith your logo and colours	✓	1
Monitor groups: a status page, an alert channel and a maintenance window per groupone group per monitor; the dashboard shows a section per group	✓	tags
Bulk changes across every monitor that matches a filterinterval, channels, group, pause, delete; the monthly credit cost is shown before you confirm	✓	n/d
Import from other monitoring tools, with a preview firstwhat the vendor documents it can read in	UptimeRobot, updown.io, Uptime Kuma, CSV	n/d
Heartbeat / cron monitoring	✓	–
Domain expiry alertsregistrable domain of every monitor, checked daily	free · date by hand where the registry hides it	n/d
Slow-response alerts	median of all probes, not one slow city	✓
Public APIkeys, monitors, incidents, groups; an OpenAPI document	✓	✓

Where Pingdom is the better choice

Being honest about this saves everyone time.

Far more probe locations

Pingdom lists about 146 probes in 26 countries. We run 15, in 15 cities on 6 continents. If you must prove availability from a specific country, Pingdom is far more likely to have a probe there.

Transaction monitoring

Pingdom records multi-step browser flows in real Chrome, such as a login or a checkout, and alerts when one breaks. We don’t run browsers. If revenue depends on a checkout working, not just a page loading, that is the check you want.

Page speed and real-user monitoring

Pingdom measures page load times from several regions and sells real-user monitoring by pageviews. We measure server response times only. If your goal is faster pages rather than knowing about outages, Pingdom covers more of it.

An enterprise supplier

Pingdom is a SolarWinds product, which can simplify purchasing in larger companies. We are a young, small company. Long-established vendors pass security questionnaires and purchasing reviews more easily, and that is a fair consideration.

What PingWise does differently

Every scheduled check runs from several cities at once, not from one place with a retry.
The moment one probe sees a failure, every healthy probe checks again, free, before anyone is paged.
Nothing pages you until two thirds of our 15 probes (10) fail, on at least 3 continents and 3 different providers, two rounds in a row.
A WAF or Cloudflare challenge is reported as “blocked”, never as down.
Every alert says what each probe saw: resolved IP, status code, timing and error.
Prepaid credits, no subscription: 650,000 free every month, packs from €5, bought credits last 24 months.

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Sources

Compiled from each vendor's own pricing and documentation pages on 26 Oct 2026, linked under Sources. Vendors change plans and features; we re-check quarterly. All product names are trade marks of their owners and are used only to identify them. If you work at one of these companies and something here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we will correct it within one working day.