One platform, one bill
Pingdom sells uptime/synthetic and RUM as separate products, and has no logs, metrics or tracing at all (those are other SolarWinds SKUs). Site Qwality is one platform with one bill.
Pingdom alternative
The Pingdom alternative
The Pingdom alternative
that does more for less.
Pingdom is a capable uptime and synthetic monitor — but since the 2025 SolarWinds buyout, prices have climbed, there’s no free tier, and logs, metrics and traces live in separate products you pay for on top. Site Qwality puts it all in one platform, starting free.
No credit card
Free tier on every product
Migrate in an afternoon
The short version
If all you need is uptime checks and you already pay for Pingdom, it works. But you’re paying for synthetic and RUM as two separate products, you have no free tier, and full observability isn’t included at all. Site Qwality gives you uptime, synthetics, logs, metrics, traces, RUM, session replay and status pages on one bill — usually for less than Pingdom alone.
Why teams switch
What you gain leaving Pingdom.
A real free tier
Pingdom killed its free tier in 2021 — it’s a paid trial or nothing. Every Site Qwality product has a genuine free tier you can stay on indefinitely.
Full observability included
Get logs, metrics and distributed traces through one ingest and one query — the stack Pingdom simply doesn’t offer in the same product.
Faster, broader checks
Checks as fast as every 30 seconds from multiple regions on paid plans — Pingdom’s floor is one minute.
Side by side
Site Qwality vs Pingdom.
| Site Qwality | Pingdom | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes — every product | None (removed 2021) |
| Entry paid plan | $15/mo · 30s · multi-region | $15/mo · 10 monitors · 1-min |
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds | 1 minute |
| Logs, metrics & traces | – | |
| Real-user monitoring | Included | Separate product |
| Session replay | – | |
| Synthetic browser flows | Limited (1 on entry plan) | |
| Public status pages | ||
| SSL / domain expiry | SSL only | |
| Multi-region checks |
Pingdom details reflect publicly listed pricing and features as of June 2026 and may have changed — always confirm on their site.
Switching is painless
Move off Pingdom in an afternoon.
You don’t need to rip anything out to try us — run both in parallel until you trust the alerts.
- Point Site Qwality at the same URLs you watch in Pingdom — checks start in under two minutes.
- Recreate your alert routes to Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty or any webhook.
- Spin up a branded status page and add logs, metrics and RUM whenever you’re ready.
- Cancel Pingdom once you’re confident — nothing is locked in.
FAQ
Switching, answered.
For most teams, yes — especially once you account for Pingdom billing synthetic and RUM as separate products and offering no logs/metrics/traces at all. Every Site Qwality product also has a free tier, so you only pay for what you actually use. (Always confirm current Pingdom pricing on their site.)
Yes — uptime, multi-region checks, page speed, transaction/browser flows, SSL expiry, status pages and real-user monitoring are all here, plus logs, metrics, traces and session replay that Pingdom doesn’t offer in the same product.
Yes, and it’s included rather than billed separately. A tiny script captures Core Web Vitals, errors and session telemetry across 100% of sessions — no sampling.
Most teams are fully migrated in an afternoon. You can run Site Qwality alongside Pingdom and only cancel once you’re happy.
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