MonitorAH vs Pingdom
Pingdom is the heritage enterprise monitor. MonitorAH covers the same job at one-tenth the price for small teams.
Verified 2026-06-20 from each vendor's official pricing page.
| Feature | Pingdom | MonitorAH |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | No (30-day trial only) | Yes — 10 monitors, 3-minute checks, 1 status page |
| Cheapest paid tier | $15/mo Starter (10 monitors, 1-min checks) | $7/mo Starter (50 monitors, 30-second checks, all channels) |
| Top standard tier | $249/mo Professional (250+ monitors) | $99/mo Agency (750 monitors, 10-sec, browser checks, 3000 RPM API) |
| Fastest check interval | 1 minute (60 seconds) | 30 seconds (Pro), 10 seconds (Agency) |
| Probe regions | 100+ global locations | EU + US-East + APAC with 2-of-3 confirmation |
| Notification channels | Email, SMS, webhook (SMS metered) | Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, SMS, voice, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Teams, Webhook (HMAC-signed) on all paid tiers |
| Status pages | Included on all paid tiers | 1 free; unlimited from Pro with custom domains; white-label from Business |
| API | On Advanced tier ($95/mo) and above | On Starter tier ($9/mo) with OpenAPI 3.1 spec |
| Heartbeat / cron monitoring | Not first-class | Native HEARTBEAT monitor with grace windows |
| Owner | SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), since 2014 | EU-based, independent, no enterprise parent |
Pick Pingdom if
- → You need multi-region synthetic monitoring from 100+ global probes
- → Enterprise procurement requires the SolarWinds brand or its SLA
- → You already use Pingdom RUM and want a single vendor
Pick MonitorAH if
- → You want Pingdom-class features at a fraction of the per-monitor cost
- → You need heartbeats, blacklist, or WHOIS monitoring (Pingdom does not ship these)
- → You prefer a clean REST API over a UI built for IT ops circa 2014
For a single product or a small portfolio, MonitorAH covers what most teams actually use Pingdom for. For Fortune 500 procurement and multi-region synthetics, Pingdom remains the safer enterprise choice.
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