Checkmate
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VisitCheckmate vs Pingdom
What both publish
| Fact | Checkmate | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Integrations | Alert channels include email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Twilio SMS, Pushover, ntfy, Matrix, Rocket.Chat, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks. | Native alert integrations named by Pingdom include Slack, VictorOps, Opsgenie and PagerDuty. |
| Status pages | It provides public status dashboards with per-service uptime, incident history, and custom branding. | Public status pages are included in all plans and can show current status and historical data. |
| Support | The maker identifies Discord as the fastest help channel and GitHub issues for bugs and feature requests, and says there is no paid support tier. | The site links to customer support and support tickets and lists a sales contact phone number. |
Checkmate plans
- FreeFree
Pingdom plans
- Real User Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Synthetic Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Real User Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- Synthetic Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pick Checkmate if…
Checkmate may suit homelab operators, SaaS founders, agencies, sysadmins, DevOps teams, e-commerce businesses, and open-source maintainers who want to host their monitoring dashboard themselves.
Pick Pingdom if…
Pingdom suits digital marketers, web developers, and hosting providers needing uptime, speed, transaction, or real-user monitoring. It also fits teams that need many alert channels and public status pages.