A free alternative to Pingdom
Pingdom is a capable, enterprise-priced product with no free tier — plans start well into the tens of dollars a month. For a single site or a handful of them, that is a lot for "tell me if it goes down".
Pingdom
GoodPing
Free tier
None
Yes
Entry price
~$10–15/mo and up
Free, or £6/mo Pro
Uptime monitoring
Yes
Yes
Page-speed testing
Yes (RUM, paid)
Response-time breakdown (free)
Diagnostic tools
Limited
14 free tools
Heartbeat monitoring
No
Included
Multi-region checks
Yes
One location (London), stated honestly
Our honest take. Pingdom is built for teams that need multi-region real-user monitoring and will pay for it. If you just need to know when your site is down and want the diagnostic tools alongside, GoodPing does that for free. We check from one location and say so — Pingdom's global network is a genuine reason to pay if you need it.
Move your monitors in a minute
Free, no card, and commercial use is fine.