Montastic
Montastic is a web service for monitoring checkpoints and sending alerts.
What Montastic is
Montastic is a web service for monitoring checkpoints and sending alerts. It supports server monitoring and SSL expiry alerts, with notifications by email, SMS, and webhook. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 50 checkpoints, checks every five minutes, one notify seat, one login seat, no webhooks, and one status page. Team costs $5 a month, billed monthly, and includes 15 checkpoints, one-minute checks, three notify seats, one login seat, one webhook, and one status page. Business is $10 a month, Enterprise is $19 a month, Enterprise Plus is $29 a month, and Enterprise Max is $49 a month; each is billed monthly. These plans offer varying checkpoint, seat, SMS, and webhook allowances. The listed monitor limit is 15, and the listed check interval is one minute. Montastic is made by a company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.
Good
- Free plan includes 50 checkpoints
- Paid plans offer one-minute checks
- Supports SSL expiry and server monitoring alerts
- Alerts can use email, SMS, and webhooks
Watch out
- Free plan checks every five minutes
- Free plan includes no webhooks
- Free plan has one notify seat and one login seat
Who it suits
Montastic may suit people who want web-based checkpoint monitoring with email, SMS, or webhook alerts. Its plans offer different checkpoint and seat allowances, including a free option.
Verdict
Montastic offers checkpoint monitoring with a free plan and several paid tiers. Compare checkpoint, seat, and notification allowances to the monitoring setup you need.
Plans and prices
From Montastic's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 50 checkpoints · 5 min frequency · 1 notify seat · 1 login seat · 0 webhooks · 1 status page · 20 subscribers |
| Team | $5 a month | 15 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 3 notify seats · 1 login seat · 1 webhook · 1 status page · monthly |
| Business | $10 a month | 50 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 5 notify seats · 1 login seat · 50 SMS/month · 3 webhooks · 1 status page · 250 subscribers · monthly |
| Enterprise | $19 a month | 100 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 9 notify seats · 5 login seats · 150 SMS/month · 5 webhooks · 2 status pages · monthly |
| Enterprise Plus | $29 a month | 200 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 15 notify seats · 15 login seats · 300 SMS/month · 10 webhooks · 3 status pages · 5,000 subscribers · monthly |
| Enterprise Max | $49 a month | 500 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 1,000 notify seats · 1,000 login seats · 600 SMS/month · 100 webhooks · 10 status pages · monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Montastic's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alert channels
- email,SMS,webhookchecked 19 Sep 2026
- API authentication
- API requests use an account key in the X-API-KEY HTTP header.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation repository
- The official GitHub repository documents CRUD operations, links to the live reference, and includes a Python example.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Check interval
- 1 minutechecked 19 Sep 2026
- Contract terms
- Montastic says subscriptions have no long-term contract and can be cancelled from the account page.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Current service status
- The public status page showed the home app and SMS/email notification services operational and reported no incidents from October 1 through October 13, 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
- DNS monitoring
- Montastic can monitor DNS record changes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- False-alarm handling
- Montastic says it double-checks failures before sending alerts to reduce false alarms.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Firewall requirements
- The support page publishes seven fixed Montastic IP addresses that customers can allow through firewalls.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Incident management
- The status-page interface supports creating incidents or maintenance events and changing service status.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent description
- AlternativeTo describes Montastic as a freemium, proprietary uptime-monitoring service with email, web, RSS, and widget status access.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent review availability
- MobilesTalk’s Montastic page states that it has no reader reviews yet.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integration: Das Keyboard
- Das Keyboard documents a Montastic Q applet that displays monitored website up/down state on compatible keyboards.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Keyword monitoring
- The API description says monitors can alert when a keyword appears or disappears on a page.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- AlternativeTo classifies Montastic as proprietary rather than open source; no open-source software licence is stated for the hosted product.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: advanced monitoring criticism
- The comparison criticized the product for lacking content-change detection, failure screenshots, email-health monitoring, domain-expiry tracking, and WhatsApp alerts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: check interval criticism
- A competitor comparison published April 1, 2026 criticized Montastic for a five-minute minimum interval and said faster checks were unavailable at that time.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- LinkedIn lists Metadot as founded in 2000.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- Metadot lists its headquarters at 14400 Piper Glen Drive, Austin, Texas 78738-6528, USA.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Metadot Corporation is identified as Montastic’s maker and product owner.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Metadot’s company size as 11–50 employees and describes an office of about 20 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2005checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
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