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Comparison

Gatus vs Pingdom

On the evidence we track, Gatus leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Gatus full profile →Pingdom full profile →
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★Gatus63
Pingdom50
Score
Vioscale score
Gatus63 / 100medium · 52%
Pingdom50 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
Gatus✗
Pingdom✓
Model
Gatuscommercial
Pingdomfreemium
Price level
Gatuslow
Pingdomlow
Transparent
Gatus✓
Pingdom✗
Integrations
Count
Gatus24
Pingdom7
Security
Gdpr
Gatus–
Pingdom✓
Hipaa
Gatus–
Pingdom✓
Pci
Gatus–
Pingdom✓
Soc2
Gatus–
Pingdom✓
Reliability
Status page
Gatus✓
Pingdom✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Capabilities
Multi region probes
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Private location agent
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Status page hosting
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Json schema assertions
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Monitoring as code
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Multistep API flows
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Heartbeat deadmans switch
Gatus-
Pingdom-
Self hostable
Gatus-
Pingdom-

What each one is

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

Gatus

Leader

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.

Independently observed

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.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Gatus

Leader
from $10/moSubscription7-day trial

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
as of verify ↗

Pingdom

SubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

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
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Gatus✓
Pingdom✓
iOS
Gatus✗
Pingdom✓
Android
Gatus✗
Pingdom✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gatus✓
Pingdom✓
Self-hosted
Gatus✓
Pingdom✗

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • Slack
  • Opsgenie
  • Email
  • PagerDuty

Gatus

Leader
24 total - 20 not shared
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • Google Chat
  • Gotify
  • Matrix
  • Mattermost
  • n8n
  • Ntfy
  • Gitea
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Messagebird
  • Pushover
  • AWS SES
  • ilert
  • Incident.io
  • Twilio
  • SIGNL4
  • Custom
Independently observed

Pingdom

7 total - 3 not shared
  • VictorOps
  • HipChat
  • SMS
Independently observed

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