# Pingdom vs Uptime Kuma

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Uptime Kuma

| Attribute | Pingdom | Uptime Kuma |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 49.8 (76% (high)) | 56.5 (40% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 64 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 2 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 90,643 |
| 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. | An open-source application for monitoring website uptime and checking service health. Designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure via Docker or traditional server setups. |
| integrations.count | 7 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"VictorOps"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"HipChat"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"SMS"}]` | - |
| language.primary | - | JavaScript |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":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","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uptime.kuma.pet","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:21:28.490Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 8 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.5.3","date":"2026-08-22T09:20:48Z","type":"stable","version":"2.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.5.2","date":"2026-08-22T08:44:26Z","type":"stable","version":"2.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.5.1","date":"2026-08-22T06:50:57Z","type":"stable","version":"2.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.5.0","date":"2026-08-01T16:35:53Z","type":"stable","version":"2.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.4.0","date":"2026-05-31T00:55:12Z","type":"stable","version":"2.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.3.2","date":"2026-05-03T16:15:29Z","type":"stable","version":"2.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.3.1","date":"2026-05-03T13:40:11Z","type":"stable","version":"2.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.3.0","date":"2026-05-01T04:01:17Z","type":"stable","version":"2.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.2.1","date":"2026-03-10T02:25:33Z","type":"stable","version":"2.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.2.0","date":"2026-03-05T02:08:14Z","type":"stable","version":"2.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.3","date":"2026-02-19T05:37:30Z","type":"stable","version":"2.1.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.2","date":"2026-02-19T05:09:11Z","type":"stable","version":"2.1.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.1","date":"2026-02-13T16:07:33Z","type":"stable","version":"2.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.0","date":"2026-02-07T02:31:49Z","type":"stable","version":"2.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.0-beta.3","date":"2026-01-22T13:01:00Z","type":"prerelease","version":"2.1.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.0-beta.2","date":"2026-01-14T02:45:36Z","type":"prerelease","version":"2.1.0-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.0-beta.1","date":"2026-01-05T02:02:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"2.1.0-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.1.0-beta.0","date":"2025-12-20T04:38:35Z","type":"prerelease","version":"2.1.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.0.2","date":"2025-10-22T17:03:54Z","type":"stable","version":"2.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/releases/tag/2.0.1","date":"2025-10-20T16:11:12Z","type":"stable","version":"2.0.1"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Flouislam%2Fuptime-kuma&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (API Monitoring)

| Capability | Pingdom | Uptime Kuma |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T17:17:50.460Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*