Gatus vs Pingdom
On the evidence we track, Gatus leads this comparison with a composite score of 57/100. 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
LeaderMonitors endpoint health through periodic checks and displays results on customizable public status pages with uptime tracking, incident management, and integration-based alerts.
Pingdom
Combines automated testing from 100+ global locations with real user monitoring to provide visibility into website availability, performance, and user experience across browsers and devices.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Gatus
LeaderFrom $10/month with 7-day free trial on all plans. Free self-hosting option available.
- Standard$10/month, 1 status page, 30 endpoints per page
- 1 status page
- 30 endpoints maximum per status page
- 0 suites per status page
- 2 minute minimum check interval
- 14 day audit log retention
- +9 more
- Premium$20/mo
- Business$50/mo
- Enterprise$500/mo
Pingdom
Pay-per-plan subscription model. 30-day free trial. Annual and monthly billing available.
- Synthetic Monitoring-
- Transaction monitoring
- Page speed monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- Email and SMS alerting
- Maintenance windows
- +2 more
- Real User Monitoring-
- Unlimited number of sites
- Unlimited users
- Shareable reports
- Performance filtering
- 13-month data retention
- EnterpriseContact sales
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
- Opsgenie
- PagerDuty
Gatus
Leader- Microsoft Teams
- Telegram
- Discord
- Google Chat
- Gotify
- Matrix
- Mattermost
- n8n
- Ntfy
- Gitea
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Messagebird
- Pushover
- AWS SES
- ilert
- Incident.io
- Twilio
- SIGNL4
- Custom
- Teams
Pingdom
- VictorOps
- HipChat
- SMS
Gatus or Pingdom: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.