Pingura vs Checkly

Feature comparison

Feature	Pingura	Checkly
Starting price	Free / $9 mo	Free / ~$30 mo
Free plan	✔ (15 monitors)	✔ (5 browser checks)
Paid plan monitors	50–500	Usage-based pricing
Check interval	3 min (free) / 1 min (paid)	1 min+ (API), 5 min+ (browser)
Monitor types	HTTP, Keyword, TCP, UDP, DNS, Ping, databases, email, SSH, and more (17 types)	API checks, Playwright browser
SSL monitoring	✔ (all plans)	—
Domain expiration	✔ (all plans)	—
Heartbeat monitoring	✔ (all plans)	—
Server metrics	✔ (Professional+)	—
Status pages	✔ (all plans)	—
Incident management	✔ (Starter+)	—
Alert channels	Email, SMS, Slack, Teams, Push, Webhook	Email, Slack, PagerDuty, Webhook
Team members	Up to 25	Varies by plan
Private probes	✔ (Starter+)	✔ (private locations)
Data retention	7 days to 2 years	Varies

Why teams choose Pingura over Checkly

No code required

Set up monitoring in minutes with Pingura's visual interface. Checkly requires writing Playwright scripts or JavaScript for most checks.

Complete monitoring platform

Monitor uptime, SSL, domains, heartbeats, servers, and status pages in one tool. Checkly focuses narrowly on synthetic and API checks.

Status pages and incident management

Communicate outages to users with built-in status pages and incident tracking. Checkly doesn't offer either feature.

Lower starting price

Pingura starts at $9/mo for 50 monitors. Checkly starts at ~$30/mo with usage-based pricing.

Where Checkly might be a better fit

Checkly excels at complex API testing and multi-step browser checks using Playwright — ideal for testing login flows, checkout processes, and API chains.
Checkly's monitoring-as-code approach (Terraform, Pulumi) is a natural fit for teams that manage infrastructure through code and CI/CD pipelines.
If your primary need is synthetic browser monitoring rather than traditional uptime checks, Checkly is purpose-built for that workflow.

Frequently asked questions

Is Pingura easier to set up than Checkly?

For uptime monitoring, yes. Checkly is code-first — checks are written as Playwright scripts and managed as code, which is powerful but requires engineering time. Pingura is configured through the UI with no code required, so you can have monitors running in minutes.

Should I choose Pingura or Checkly?

Choose Checkly if your priority is scripted end-to-end browser testing as part of a CI pipeline. Choose Pingura if you want a complete monitoring platform — uptime, SSL, domains, heartbeats, server metrics, status pages, and incident management — without writing test code.

Is Pingura cheaper than Checkly?

Pingura starts at $9 per month against Checkly’s higher entry point, and includes status pages and incident management rather than charging for them separately.

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