# Checkly vs Gatus

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Checkly

| Attribute | Checkly | Gatus |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 70.8 (71% (medium)) | 57.3 (50% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A synthetic monitoring platform that sends real requests to your APIs and websites from distributed locations, tracks uptime and performance metrics, and automatically alerts your team through incident management and chat integrations when issues occur. It is indexed under API Monitoring.","source":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","question":"What is Checkly?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Checkly offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","question":"Is Checkly free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Checkly supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Checkly support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Checkly, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","question":"Can Checkly be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 17 integrations for Checkly, including Slack, PagerDuty, Incident.io, Rootly, OpsGenie, GitHub, GitLab CI and Jenkins, plus 9 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","question":"What does Checkly integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Checkly. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Checkly not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","question":"What security certifications does Checkly have?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"A service monitoring platform that continuously tracks the availability and performance of your services and displays the results on public status pages. Supports multiple monitoring types with integrations for automated alerting. It is indexed under API Monitoring.","source":"https://gatus.io/pricing","question":"What is Gatus?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Gatus is a paid product; published pricing starts at $10 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Standard, Premium, Business and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://gatus.io/pricing","question":"How much does Gatus cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Gatus. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://gatus.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Gatus support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Gatus can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://gatus.io/pricing","question":"Can Gatus be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 24 integrations for Gatus, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Discord, Google Chat, Gotify, Matrix and Mattermost, plus 16 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://gatus.io/pricing","question":"What does Gatus integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Gatus is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://gatus.io/pricing","question":"Where is Gatus available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Platform for monitoring web applications and APIs using synthetic testing from multiple geographic regions and private network locations. Includes public status page hosting and automated incident alerting. | Monitors endpoint health through periodic checks and displays results on customizable public status pages with uptime tracking, incident management, and integration-based alerts. |
| features.capabilities | `{"self_hostable":true,"monitoring_as_code":true,"multi_region_probes":true,"multistep_api_flows":true,"status_page_hosting":true,"private_location_agent":true,"heartbeat_deadmans_switch":true}` | `{"self_hostable":true,"status_page_hosting":true,"private_location_agent":true}` |
| integrations.count | 9 | 5 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Incident.io"},{"name":"Rootly"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"GitLab CI"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Pulumi"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Airflow"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"MCP"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Webhooks","native":true,"category":"integrations","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Gotify"},{"name":"Matrix"},{"name":"Mattermost"},{"name":"n8n"},{"name":"Ntfy"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Gitea"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Messagebird"},{"name":"Pushover"},{"name":"AWS SES"},{"name":"ilert"},{"name":"Incident.io"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Twilio"},{"name":"SIGNL4"},{"name":"Custom"},{"name":"Teams","native":true,"category":"chat"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free tier","features":["Uptime monitoring","API checks","Browser checks","Status page","Email and Slack alerting","Limited checks and 3 locations max per check"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Additional uptime monitors","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Browser check execution overage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"execution"},"kind":"metered","amount":4,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"API check execution overage","components":[{"per":{"qty":10000,"unit":"execution"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.8,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier. Usage-based pricing for check executions, plus add-ons for additional monitors.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T17:56:34.180Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$10/month, 1 status page, 30 endpoints per page","features":["1 status page","30 endpoints maximum per status page","0 suites per status page","2 minute minimum check interval","14 day audit log retention","Custom domain support","Uptime, response time, and health badges","Single Sign-On (SSO) for status page access","Custom CSS styling","HTTP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, STARTTLS, SCTP endpoint monitoring","Response body validation with JSONPath and pattern matching","Certificate expiration monitoring","IP address monitoring","Slack, Teams, Incident.io, PagerDuty, Twilio alerting"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor most of their services.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"suites":"0","status_pages":"1","endpoints_per_page":"30","min_check_interval":"2m","audit_logs_retention":"14 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Premium","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor all of their services.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor multiple business-critical services across several products.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"suites":"25","status_pages":"3","endpoints_per_page":"100","min_check_interval":"30s","audit_logs_retention":"90 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those interested in monitoring everything from A-to-Z.","contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $10/month with 7-day free trial on all plans. Free self-hosting option available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://gatus.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-24T12:08:55.808Z","freeTrialDays":7,"startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":10,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.9 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.checklyhq.com/security/ | - |

## Capabilities (API Monitoring)

| Capability | Checkly | Gatus |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Multi region probes | ✓ | - |
| Private location agent | ✓ | ✓ |
| Status page hosting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Json schema assertions | - | - |
| Monitoring as code | ✓ | - |
| Multistep API flows | ✓ | - |
| Heartbeat deadmans switch | ✓ | - |
| Self hostable | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-17T09:49:50.278Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*