Better Stack Uptime vs Pingdom
Better Stack Uptime and Pingdom are both uptime monitoring software. Better Stack Uptime is a commercial product from Better Stack. Pingdom is a commercial product from SolarWinds.
Which to pick
- Pick Better Stack Uptime when
- A small engineering team wants uptime checks, on-call and status pages in one inexpensive tool.
- Pick Pingdom when
- A business wants established external monitoring of website uptime and performance.
Side by side
Uptime monitoring with heartbeats, on-call scheduling, phone and SMS alerts, incident management and status pages.
Website uptime, page speed, transaction and real user monitoring with alerts, from SolarWinds.
It bundles many features, so check which plan includes the on-call and alerting you need.
It is pricier and less developer-friendly than newer uptime tools.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Cloud service
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Better Stack
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own
25 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More uptime monitors
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.