Gatus vs Healthchecks.io
On the evidence we track, Healthchecks.io leads this comparison with a composite score of 83/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api monitoring. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Gatus
A platform for tracking service health across websites, APIs, and infrastructure. It detects outages automatically, publishes real-time status pages, and alerts teams via multiple channels.
Healthchecks.io
LeaderA monitoring platform that tracks cron jobs and scheduled tasks, notifying you when they don't execute on schedule using a heartbeat check-in mechanism.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Gatus
From $10/month. Free 7-day trial.
- Standard$10/month
- HTTP, ICMP, DNS, TCP, UDP, TLS, SCTP, SSH, gRPC, WebSocket monitoring
- Status code, response body/JSONPath, certificate expiration, domain expiration conditions
- Response time and connection monitoring
- Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, Google Chat, Gotify, Matrix, Mattermost, n8n, Ntfy, Opsgenie, Email, Gitea, GitHub, GitLab integrations
- Static egress IP for firewall whitelisting
- +3 more
- Premium$20/month
- All Standard features
- Push-based monitoring
- Incident announcements
- Additional integrations: Messagebird, Pushover, AWS SES, ilert, Incident.io, PagerDuty, Twilio, SIGNL4
- Business$50/month
- All Premium features
- Metrics dashboard
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Custom CSS
- Custom integrations
- EnterpriseContact sales
Healthchecks.io
LeaderFree tier available. Paid plans from $5–$80/month, with 20% discount for annual billing.
- HobbyistFree
- Monitor 20 cron jobs
- 100 log entries per job
- Supporter$5/month
- Monitor 20 cron jobs
- 100 log entries per job
- Business$20/month or $192/year
- Monitor 100 cron jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 50 SMS & WhatsApp credits per month
- 20 phone call credits per month
- Email support
- Business Plus$80/month or $768/year
- Monitor 1000 cron jobs
- 1000 log entries per job
- 500 SMS & WhatsApp credits per month
- 100 phone call credits per month
- Priority email support
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Telegram
- Discord
- Google Chat
- Gotify
- Matrix
- Mattermost
- Ntfy
- GitHub
Gatus
- n8n
- Opsgenie
- Gitea
- GitLab
- Messagebird
- Pushover
- AWS SES
- ilert
- Incident.io
- PagerDuty
- Twilio
- SIGNL4
- Custom
Healthchecks.io
Leader- Webhooks
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.