Pingdom vs UptimeRobot
Pingdom and UptimeRobot are both uptime monitoring software. Pingdom is a commercial product from SolarWinds. UptimeRobot is a commercial product from UptimeRobot.
Which to pick
- Pick Pingdom when
- A business wants established external monitoring of website uptime and performance.
- Pick UptimeRobot when
- You want simple, cheap or free monitoring of a handful of sites with alerts.
Side by side
Website uptime, page speed, transaction and real user monitoring with alerts, from SolarWinds.
Uptime monitoring for websites, ports, keywords, SSL and cron heartbeats, with status pages and a free plan.
It is pricier and less developer-friendly than newer uptime tools.
The free plan has 5-minute checks and its commercial-use terms have tightened.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Cloud service and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
Closed source, sold by UptimeRobot
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
25 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
No Wikipedia article of its own
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.