Status and uptime monitoring
Self-hosted alternatives to Pingdom, priced
2 open-source tools that can replace Pingdom, each shown with what it would actually cost to run for a team of 10 people. Pingdom on the Synthetic Monitoring tier costs $16.61 a month at that size.
| Tool | Server only | With your time | vs Pingdom | Operational weight | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime Kuma | $4.80 | $42.30 | -$1,075 | easy | MIT |
| Gatus | $4.80 | $42.30 | -$1,075 | easy | Apache-2.0 |
The final column is the 36-month difference: positive means self-hosting is cheaper.
Which one to pick
Uptime Kuma 91,286 stars
One container with SQLite. Cost scales with the number of monitors and their check interval, not with the number of people reading the dashboard.
At 10 people it needs 0.6 GB of memory and 5.1 GB of disk, which fits the Basic at Kamatera for $4.00 a month. Setting it up is roughly 2 hours of work, then 0.5 hours a month to keep it healthy.
Full Pingdom versus Uptime Kuma breakdown · Uptime Kuma at every team size
Gatus 12,056 stars
Configuration as YAML in version control, which suits teams that want their monitoring reviewed like code. The smallest footprint on this entire site.
At 10 people it needs 0.3 GB of memory and 2.1 GB of disk, which fits the Basic 512 MiB at DigitalOcean for $4.00 a month. Setting it up is roughly 2 hours of work, then 0.5 hours a month to keep it healthy.
Full Pingdom versus Gatus breakdown · Gatus at every team size
How the pricing was established
Pingdom pricing was read from its own pricing page on 2026-09-14, quoted in euros and converted at 1.1592 dollars to the euro, the Frankfurter, European Central Bank reference rates rate for 2026-09-11. Server prices come from the providers listed on the hosting page. The sizing model and the cost of your time are set out in full on the methodology page.