See how PylonMon stacks up against popular monitoring tools. More features, simpler pricing, and built for modern teams.
| Feature | PylonMon | Uptime Kuma | Checkly | Datadog | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Synthetic monitoring (journeys) | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Status pages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple regions | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team collaboration | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inside the network too (agent) | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Self-hosting required | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Per-seat or per-run pricing | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Starting price | $0 | $0 (your hardware) | $0, teams $64/mo | from $15/host/mo | from $10/mo |
| From each vendor’s public pricing page on 2026-09-11. Prices change; check theirs for today’s. | |||||
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PylonMon Pro is $9 a month, flat: 75 monitors at 30-second checks, the server agent on as many of those as you like, 1 public status page, 10 SMS a month, incidents, maintenance windows and an API. Never per seat, per monitor or per check run; outgrow a cap and you add a prepaid block, there is no overage bill.
| Entry paid plan | Price, billed monthly | Monitors | Fastest checks | Status pages | SMS / calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PylonMon Pro | $9 flat | 75 | 30 seconds | 1 | 10 SMS a month; prepaid packs beyond that |
| UptimeRobot Solo | $13 ($12 billed annually) | 10 monitors | 60-second checks | 3 status pages | 10–20 SMS/voice credits included |
| Better Stack Responder | $34 ($29 billed annually) per responder (user) | 10 monitors and 10 heartbeats included | checks up to every 30 seconds | 1 status page | unlimited phone, SMS and push alerts |
| StatusCake Superior | $24.49 ($20.41 billed annually) | 100 uptime monitors | 1-minute checks | not stated | not stated |
| Healthchecks.io Business | $20 ($16 billed annually) | 100 monitored jobs | waits for your job to check in (no polling) | not stated | 50 SMS/WhatsApp and 20 phone-call credits |
| Checkly Team | $64 | 75 uptime monitors and 12,000 browser check runs a month | not stated | not stated | not stated |
Public list prices in USD, read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 2026-09-19 (uptimerobot.com/pricing, betterstack.com/pricing, statuscake.com/pricing, healthchecks.io/pricing, checklyhq.com/pricing). They set their own prices and change them — check their pages for today’s, and tell support@pylonmon.com if a number here is out of date. “Not stated” means their page did not say, not that they lack it.
| What you get | PylonMon Free | healthchecks.io Free | notifier.so Free/Solo | PagerDuty Free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 forever | $0 | $0 / entry paid | $0 (5 users) |
| Monitors on free | 20 monitors | 20 checks | fewer on free | focused on on-call, not checks |
| Check styles | Heartbeat + HTTP/S + TCP + ping (+ DNS, UDP & Prometheus on paid) | heartbeat (cron) focus | uptime focus | brings its own integrations |
| Fastest interval (free) | 1 minute | varies | slower on free | — |
| Escalation ladders | Included on FREE | limited | paid | paid tiers |
| On-call rotations | Team $49 flat — shifts, overrides, per-member paging preference | — | — | its core product — per-user pricing |
| Alert channels | email, Discord, Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Webex, Telegram, ntfy.sh, web push, SMS, WhatsApp, voice, Zapier, webhooks | many | several | many (enterprise-leaning) |
| Prometheus & Alertmanager | ✓ Pro ($9) — metric-threshold monitors (push or pull) + Alertmanager ingest + scrape us | — | — | via integrations |
| Public status pages | ✓ every plan — 1 free; your own domain from $10/mo | paid | varies | separate product |
| Status badges | ✓ free | ✓ | paid | — |
| Inside and outside your network | ✓ both — external checks + pylon-beacon agent (vitals from inside) | inbound pings only | outside only | n/a |
| Sells your data | Never. | no | ? | no |
Checkly sells detection (checks), communication (status pages) and resolution (AI root cause) as three products with three prices, then meters browser runs on top. PylonMon sells one thing: the monitor, the alert, the status page and the incident are the same $49. Checkly's public prices as of 2026-09-10:
| Team-sized setup | PylonMon Team | Checkly Team |
|---|---|---|
| Base plan | $49/mo flat | $64/mo |
| Uptime monitors included | 250 | 75 |
| Browser journeys | 10 journeys, every 5 minutes, included; +5 for $10/mo, prepaid | 12,000 browser check runs/month included, then $6.25 per 1,000 runs |
| Ten checkout journeys every 5 minutes | $0 extra | ≈86,400 runs/month → roughly $460/mo in run overage |
| Status pages | included | separate product: $9–$30/mo |
| AI on the incident | included on Enterprise (bring your own agent; on-demand explain coming to paid plans) | separate product: $12–$39/mo |
| More monitors | +25 for $5/mo, prepaid, you add it | $8 per 25 as an add-on |
| Teammates | 5 on Team, unlimited on Enterprise, never per seat | 10 on Team |
| Second-region confirmation before paging | every paid plan | multiple locations, no hold-for-confirmation |
Checkly figures from checklyhq.com/pricing on 2026-09-10 (Team plan: 75 uptime monitors, 12,000 browser runs, $6.25 per additional 1,000 runs; Communicate $9–$30; Resolve $12–$39). Their prices change; check their page for today's. The journey math assumes each journey runs every five minutes for a 30-day month.
Competitor details reflect their public pages at the time of writing — check their sites for current pricing. We think you'll come back.
For more than a handful of monitors on a paid plan, yes. PylonMon Pro is $9 a month for 75 monitors at 30-second checks. UptimeRobot Solo is $13 a month ($12 billed annually) for 10 monitors at 60-second checks. UptimeRobot's free plan is the larger one, though: 50 monitors at 5-minute checks, against PylonMon's 20 monitors at 60-second checks. Prices read from both pricing pages on 2026-09-19.
Better Stack Uptime is priced per responder: $34 a month each ($29 billed annually), with 10 monitors and 10 heartbeats included, and further monitors as an add-on. PylonMon Team is $49 a month flat for 5 members, 250 monitors and 5 status pages, so a five-person team pays $49 rather than five responder licences. Better Stack includes unlimited phone and SMS alerts; PylonMon includes an SMS allowance and sells prepaid credit packs beyond it. Prices read on 2026-09-19.
No. Plans are flat: Free is $0, Pro is $9 a month, Team is $49 a month and Enterprise starts at $129 a month. A plan has caps (monitors, status pages, members); if you outgrow one you add a prepaid block, for example 25 more monitors for $5 a month, or move up a plan. Nothing is metered and there is no overage billing.
PylonMon Pro: 75 monitors checked as often as every 30 seconds; HTTP/S, TCP, UDP, ping, DNS, TLS-certificate and domain-expiry monitors; heartbeat monitors for cron jobs and backups; the pylon-beacon server agent on as many of those monitors as you like; checks over IPv4, IPv6 or both; a second region confirming an outage before you are paged; 1 public status page; 10 SMS a month; incidents, maintenance windows, escalation ladders, Prometheus and Alertmanager ingest, and an API.
On PylonMon a server running the agent counts as one monitor, the same as a website check, so both come out of one cap. Free covers 3 servers and 20 monitors in total at no cost. Pro at $9 a month covers any mix up to 75, for example 20 servers, 30 website checks and a status page. Services that bill per host or per user charge for the same setup several times over.
Both do heartbeat (dead-man's-switch) monitoring and both give 20 checks free. Healthchecks.io is a dedicated heartbeat service: its Business plan is $20 a month for 100 monitored jobs. PylonMon Pro is $9 a month for 75 monitors, and those can be heartbeats, website and port checks or servers with the agent, so one account covers the cron jobs and the things they run on. Prices read on 2026-09-19.
