Better Stack vs Pingdom

From $29 per month (indicative)

From $10 per month (indicative, Synthetic starter)

Substantially cheaper than assembling Pingdom, PagerDuty and Statuspage separately.

Transaction checks and RUM are priced separately from basic uptime checks and add up.

Free plan with 10 monitors at 3-minute intervals and a status page.

30-day trial.

Established

Better Stack · since 2021

Widely used

SolarWinds · since 2007

• Replaces three separate subscriptions with one at a lower total cost.
• Excellent status pages and incident communication out of the box.
• Fast check intervals even on modest plans.

• Very large global probe network with a long operating history.
• Simple to set up for basic availability monitoring.
• Combines synthetic checks with real-user monitoring.

• Browser-based transaction monitoring is limited compared to Checkly or Datadog.
• Log management is capable but not a full observability platform.
• Younger vendor than the incumbents.

• Feature development has been slow under SolarWinds ownership.
• Transaction-check authoring is dated compared to code-first alternatives.
• Pricing is no longer competitive against newer entrants.

Small and mid-sized teams consolidating uptime, on-call and status pages.

Organisations wanting an established name for straightforward uptime monitoring.