Comparison

Checkly vs Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

On the evidence we track, Checkly leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Checkly64

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring11

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	ChecklyLeader	Datadog Synthetic Monitoring
Vioscale score	64 / 100high · 76%	11 / 100low · 19%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	-
Modelpricing.model	freemium	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	unknown
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	17	14
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	Available worldwide · Popular in US · HQ US

Score

Vioscale score

Checkly64 / 100high · 76%

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring11 / 100low · 19%

Pricing

Free tier

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring–

Model

Checklyfreemium

Datadog Synthetic Monitoringcommercial

Price level

Checklylow

Datadog Synthetic Monitoringunknown

Transparent

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✗

Integrations

Count

Checkly17

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring14

Security

Gdpr

Checkly–

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✓

Soc2

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring–

Reliability

Status page

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring–

Market

Availability

ChecklyAvailable worldwide

Datadog Synthetic MonitoringAvailable worldwide · Popular in US · HQ US

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api monitoring. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for API Monitoring
Capability	Checkly	Datadog Synthetic Monitoring
Capabilities
Multi region probes	-	-
Private location agent	-	-
Status page hosting	-	-
Json schema assertions	-	-
Monitoring as code	-	-
Multistep API flows	-	-
Heartbeat deadmans switch	-	-
Self hostable	-	-

Capabilities

Multi region probes

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Private location agent

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Status page hosting

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Json schema assertions

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Monitoring as code

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Multistep API flows

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Heartbeat deadmans switch

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

Self hostable

Checkly-

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Checkly

Leader

A code-first monitoring platform that runs continuous uptime checks, API tests, and browser-based workflows from multiple global locations to detect outages and performance issues. Sends alerts through various channels and supports custom monitoring logic via TypeScript.

Independently observed

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

A cloud-based testing platform that lets engineering teams create code-free tests simulating user interactions and API calls across endpoints, enabling rapid issue detection and performance optimization.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Checkly

Leader

from $1.80/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $24/month billed annually. Free tier includes 10 monitors and 1k browser/10k API checks.

HobbyFree
- Uptime monitoring (HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP, Heartbeat)
- 10 uptime monitors
- 1,000 browser/Playwright checks per month
- 10,000 API checks per month
- 6 global monitoring locations
- +2 more
Starter$24/month billed annually
- 50 uptime monitors
- 1-minute check frequency
- 3,000 browser checks per month
- 25,000 API checks per month
- Automatic retry before alerting
- +3 more
Team$64/month billed annually
- 75 uptime monitors
- 30-second check frequency
- 12,000 browser checks per month
- 100,000 API checks per month
- 22 global locations
- +7 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom monitor and check volumes
- 1-second check frequency
- 22 global locations with parallel and round-robin scheduling
- Private locations
- All alerting channels
- +1 more

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Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

14-day trial

14-day free trial available (pricing details not disclosed in provided materials)

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Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Checkly	Datadog Synthetic Monitoring
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
HybridDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✓

CLI

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✓

Self-hosted

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✓

Hybrid

Checkly✓

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (3)

Slack
GitHub
Jenkins

Checkly

Leader

17 total - 14 not shared

PagerDuty
Incident.io
Rootly
OpsGenie
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Vercel
Terraform
Pulumi
Webhook
Telegram
Airflow
Kubernetes
MCP

Independently observed

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

14 total - 11 not shared

GitLab
CircleCI
Azure DevOps
Jira
Google Vertex AI
Google Cloud SQL
Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud
Real User Monitoring
Error Tracking
Session Replay

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.