How PylonMon compares

Full-featured uptime, heartbeat, and infrastructure monitoring — with a free tier that's actually useful and paid tiers that don't need a procurement department.

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 $15 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 ($4) — metric-threshold monitors (push or pull) + Alertmanager ingest + scrape us	—	—	via integrations
Public status pages	✓ paid — only the monitors you choose	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

Where the paid tiers punch up

Pro is $4/mo — 30-second checks, DNS/UDP/TLS-cert/slow-response monitors, incidents + API, a public status page, custom payloads, maintenance windows, an SMS allowance, and the full Prometheus & Alertmanager integration (the homelabber's feature — most competitors don't have it at any price). Most competitors gate half of that behind $20+/user plans.
Team is $15/mo flat — not per-user. Five teammates with real roles (read/write/admin/owner) costs less than one seat almost anywhere else, and adds on-call rotations plus company-scale Prometheus (200 inbound alert streams vs 25 on Pro).
On-call alerting without per-seat pricing. Real on-call rotations (shifts, overrides, page-whoever-is-on) on Team, escalation ladders on every plan, ack-to-silence paging, incident tracking with an API, SMS on paid tiers and voice-call paging on Enterprise — the on-call essentials at $0–$32 flat, instead of $21+ per person per month. Each member even picks how they personally get paged while holding the pager. Enterprise adds SSO and 50 seats.

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