Pingdom
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you run multiple revenue-critical sites and want uptime checks, speed tests, and status pages in one place.
Comparison
Pingdom vs Uptrends
Pingdom and Uptrends both land on Depends.
Uptrends
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're an ops or DevOps team at a mid-size-plus company that needs deep synthetic, transaction, and RUM monitoring and can absorb $100-210/mo.
| Compare | Pingdom | Uptrends |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Multi-site dev/ops teams | Mid-size+ ops and DevOps teams |
| Who it's not for | Single-site owners . free checkers cover you | Solo devs and hobby sites . overkill |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.⁸ | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed; vendor states Uptrends was not affected by Log4j. |
| Support quality | Trustpilot 2.3/5 overall | No support evidence in sources |
| Public sentiment | Still cited as a default uptime checker in Reddit threads, but its Trustpilot rating is a poor 2.3/5.² | Users praise easy setup and debugging, though a vocal minority complain the pricing feels like a subscription trap.16 |
| Biggest gotcha | Trustpilot sits at 2.3/5 ('Poor') . scan recent reviews before an annual commit.² | Trustpilot reviews warn of a 'subscription trap' . check renewal and cancellation terms before signing.16 |
Pick Pingdom when
- Multi-site dev/ops teams
- SaaS needing public status pages
- Teams adding real-user monitoring
When Pingdom is not a fit
- Single-site owners . free checkers cover you
- Buyers wanting deep full-stack observability
- Budget buyers needing flat, predictable pricing
Pick Uptrends when
- Mid-size+ ops and DevOps teams
- Fintech and e-commerce uptime SLAs
- Multi-step transaction monitoring
- Teams combining synthetics with RUM
When Uptrends is not a fit
- Solo devs and hobby sites . overkill
- Small teams watching a few URLs on a budget
- Anyone wanting flat per-site pricing
- Buyers wary of subscription and renewal traps
Sources
review
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- Pingdom Review (2026): Pricing, Pros & Cons . iTechGuidesitechguides.comreview
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- Best Pingdom Alternative . DevHelmdevhelm.ioreview
- Website Speed Test | Pingdom Toolstools.pingdom.comofficial
- Pingdom: Website Monitoring Servicepingdom.comofficial
- Pingdom product security pagepingdom.comsecurity
- Enable MFA for your organization . SolarWinds Documentationdocumentation.solarwinds.comofficial
- Pingdom and GDPR: synthetic monitoring, RUM . FlowConsentflowconsent.comsecurity
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- ITRS Group Acquires Uptrendsfinancialit.netnews
- Uptrends Pricing . Capterracapterra.comreview
- Uptrends Review . Revuorevuo.aireview
- Trustpilot . Uptrends customer servicetrustpilot.comreview