# Checkly as a Pingdom Alternative

**Source**: https://www.checklyhq.com/alternative-pingdom/

**Reviewed**: 2026-09-02

> Checkly is a Pingdom alternative for teams that need to verify full Playwright browser workflows and API behavior—not only endpoint availability—and want checks versioned in Git and run locally or in CI.

## Choose Checkly when

- A successful status code is not enough; login, checkout, search, or an API workflow must actually complete.
- Developers want native Playwright and TypeScript checks in the application repository.
- Uptime and synthetic checks should share one monitoring-as-code and alerting workflow.
- Failed browser runs need traces, video, screenshots, console output, and network evidence.

## Choose Pingdom when

Pingdom is the better fit for a small number of basic no-code uptime checks, a broader uptime probe network, or real user monitoring in the same product. Pingdom is cheaper for plain uptime. Checkly does not provide real user monitoring and has fewer public probe locations.

## Checkly facts

- Uptime monitor types: URL, TCP, DNS, ICMP, gRPC, and heartbeat.
- Browser checks: native Playwright scripts versioned in Git.
- Configuration: TypeScript/JavaScript, Terraform, or Pulumi.
- Locations: 22 public locations plus private locations.
- API checks can run from every 10 seconds; browser and multistep checks support intervals down to every minute.

## Evaluation method

Compare what counts as "up," required probe reach, transaction-script ownership, total cost at the required frequency, failure evidence, and whether real user monitoring is necessary. Confirm Pingdom capabilities and prices against its official product and pricing pages.

## Sources

- [Checkly synthetic monitoring documentation](https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/detect/synthetic-monitoring/overview/)
- [Checkly uptime monitoring documentation](https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/detect/uptime-monitoring/overview/)
- [Checkly pricing](https://www.checklyhq.com/pricing/)
- [Pingdom uptime monitoring](https://www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring/)
- [Pingdom transaction monitoring](https://www.pingdom.com/product/transaction-monitoring/)
- [Pingdom pricing](https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/)
- [Pingdom migration guide](https://www.checklyhq.com/switch/pingdom/)