# Pingdom vs Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Pingdom

| Attribute | Pingdom | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.9 (76% (high)) | 39.8 (53% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 22 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 17 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 5,896 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under API Monitoring.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","question":"What is Pingdom?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pingdom offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","question":"Is Pingdom free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pingdom supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Pingdom support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Pingdom, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","question":"Can Pingdom be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Pingdom, including Slack, VictorOps, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, HipChat, Email and SMS. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","question":"What does Pingdom integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Pingdom. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pingdom not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/security/","question":"What security certifications does Pingdom have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Pingdom is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United Kingdom.","source":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Pingdom available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source exporter for Prometheus that monitors the health and responsiveness of network services by sending test requests over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP, and gRPC protocols. Results are exposed as metrics for collection by Prometheus. It is indexed under API Monitoring.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is Prometheus Blackbox Exporter?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Prometheus Blackbox Exporter is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is Prometheus Blackbox Exporter free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Prometheus Blackbox Exporter supports Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Prometheus Blackbox Exporter support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Prometheus Blackbox Exporter can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can Prometheus Blackbox Exporter be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Prometheus Blackbox Exporter is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter","question":"Is Prometheus Blackbox Exporter open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Blackbox Exporter performs endpoint verification using HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP, and gRPC protocols, exposing probe results as metrics for integration with Prometheus monitoring systems. It supports TLS authentication, configuration-based operation, and can be deployed via Docker containers or standalone binaries. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"self_hostable":true,"monitoring_as_code":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"VictorOps"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"HipChat"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"SMS"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Synthetic Monitoring","features":["Transaction monitoring","Page speed monitoring","Uptime monitoring","Email and SMS alerting","Maintenance windows","Public status pages and reports","Unlimited users"],"description":"Automated monitoring of application availability, performance, and transaction flows","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Real User Monitoring","features":["Unlimited number of sites","Unlimited users","Shareable reports","Performance filtering","13-month data retention"],"description":"Insight into actual user experience and application performance from end-user perspective","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","description":"For high-volume deployments with 500K to 5M+ pageviews per month","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Pay-per-plan subscription model. 30-day free trial. Annual and monthly billing available.","currency":"GBP","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-17T21:37:23.783Z","freeTrialDays":30,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T21:35:23.770Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 123 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.29.0","date":"2026-10-07T09:40:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.28.0","date":"2025-12-06T13:32:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.27.0","date":"2025-06-30T13:45:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.27.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.26.0","date":"2025-02-26T13:51:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.26.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.25.0","date":"2024-04-09T13:30:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.25.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.24.0","date":"2023-05-16T11:23:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.24.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.23.0","date":"2022-12-02T20:59:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.23.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.22.0","date":"2022-08-02T14:26:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.22.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.1","date":"2022-06-23T16:09:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0","date":"2022-05-30T15:06:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0-rc.0","date":"2022-05-11T11:14:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.21.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0","date":"2022-03-16T23:52:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc.0","date":"2022-02-17T20:34:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.20.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.19.0","date":"2021-05-10T13:18:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.18.0","date":"2020-10-12T10:13:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.17.0","date":"2020-06-19T12:14:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.16.0","date":"2019-11-11T18:16:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.1","date":"2019-09-17T12:52:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.0","date":"2019-09-11T13:09:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.14.0","date":"2019-03-15T13:49:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | - | https://github.com/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fblackbox_exporter&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (API Monitoring)

| Capability | Pingdom | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-10-16T20:01:46.528Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*