# Gatus vs Pingdom

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Gatus

| Attribute | Gatus | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 63.1 (52% (medium)) | 49.8 (76% (high)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| integrations.count | 24 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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":"Slack"},{"name":"VictorOps"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"HipChat"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"SMS"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$10/month","features":["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","Custom domain support","Uptime, response time, health badges","Private status pages"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor most of their services","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"status_pages":"None","team_members":"None","suites_per_page":"0","check_interval_min":"2m","endpoints_per_page":"30","alerts_per_endpoint":"2","events_per_endpoint":"50","results_per_endpoint":"100","conditions_per_endpoint":"5","audit_log_retention_days":"14"}},{"free":false,"name":"Premium","summary":"$20/month","features":["All Standard features","Push-based monitoring","Incident announcements","Additional integrations: Messagebird, Pushover, AWS SES, ilert, Incident.io, PagerDuty, Twilio, SIGNL4"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor all of their services","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"status_pages":"2","team_members":"5","suites_per_page":"5","check_interval_min":"1m","endpoints_per_page":"50","alerts_per_endpoint":"3","events_per_endpoint":"50","results_per_endpoint":"100","conditions_per_endpoint":"10","audit_log_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"$50/month","features":["All Premium features","Metrics dashboard","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Custom CSS","Custom integrations"],"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":{"status_pages":"3","team_members":"25","suites_per_page":"25","check_interval_min":"30s","endpoints_per_page":"100","alerts_per_endpoint":"10","events_per_endpoint":"50","results_per_endpoint":"500","conditions_per_endpoint":"20","audit_log_retention_days":"90"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$500/month","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $10/month. Free 7-day trial.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://gatus.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:21:07.998Z","freeTrialDays":7,"startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"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"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (API Monitoring)

| Capability | Gatus | Pingdom |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:06:46.424Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*