EU company, data in Germany
The application, databases and check results run at Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany. SolarWinds’ sub-processor list names AWS, United States, as the host of Pingdom. Our GDPR data processing agreement is public.
UptimeVanguard vs Pingdom: EU-hosted monitoring with a free plan
UptimeVanguard is an EU company that keeps your data in Germany. It checks your websites as often as every 30 seconds from 10 regions, and a second region confirms a website, API, ping or DNS outage before it alerts you. Start on the free plan; on the paid plan, 5 sites cost €10 a month, excl. VAT, with every check type and unlimited team members.
- Free plan for 3 sites
- 30-second checks
- Last checked 2026-11-11
Why UptimeVanguard
What you get when you switch from Pingdom
A free plan
Monitor 3 sites free. No card. We found no free plan on Pingdom’s pricing page; it offers a 30-day trial.
30-second checks
Up to 10 HTTP or ping checks per team every 30 seconds. Pingdom’s documentation gives once a minute as its smallest interval.
Checks Pingdom does not list
Cron and job heartbeats, SSL score (a testssl.sh grade), broken-link and mixed-content scans and application health, in the same price per site.
Outages confirmed from a second region
A second region confirms a website, API, ping or DNS failure before you are alerted. Fewer false alarms from one bad network path.
Price per site
One host with HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping and SSL checks counts once. 5 sites cost €10 a month, excl. VAT, against €16 for Pingdom’s smallest tier.
Status pages with subscribers
Up to 5 hosted status pages. Subscribers get an email when a component goes down or recovers, and when you post an update.
Alerts where your team works
Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, ntfy, webhooks, and SMS through your own Vonage, Twilio or CM.com account.
Free tools
Use our free SSL checker, Is it down? and SLA calculator without an account.
Side by side
Features compared
Pingdom facts come from its own public pages, checked on 2026-11-11. Products change: check their pages before you decide.
| Area | UptimeVanguard | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Company and data | EU company from the Netherlands (KvK 42017143). Hosted in Germany: the application, databases and check results run at Hetzner in Falkenstein. | SolarWinds. Its sub-processor list names AWS, United States, as the host of Pingdom. |
| Pricing unit | Per site: one host name with all its checks. | Per uptime check, in tiers; advanced (transaction) checks and SMS alerts come with each tier. |
| Free plan and trial | Free plan: 3 sites with every check type and every alert channel, 5-minute checks from one region, 1 status page, 30 days of history. 7-day trial of every check type on 5 sites. No card. | No free plan found on the pricing page. 30-day trial with synthetics and real user monitoring. |
| Fastest interval | 30 seconds for up to 10 HTTP or ping checks per team on the paid plan; 60 seconds for other checks; 5 minutes on the Free plan. | Once a minute is the smallest interval in its documentation. |
| Regions | 10 regions; a second region confirms a website, API, ping or DNS failure before you are alerted. | More than 100 servers worldwide. |
| Check types | HTTP, ping, TCP port, DNS, SSL certificate, SSL score, broken links and mixed content, application health, cron heartbeats. | HTTP(S), HTTP custom, ping, TCP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, transaction checks, page speed, real user monitoring. |
| Alert channels | Email, SMS through your own Vonage, Twilio or CM.com account, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, ntfy and webhooks. Every channel is on the Free plan too. | Email and SMS, with SMS alerts included in each tier. |
| On-call and escalation | Alerts go to PagerDuty for on-call schedules, escalation and phone calls. | Not compared: we did not find it on the pages we checked. |
| Status pages | Up to 5 hosted pages on the paid plan, 1 on Free. Email subscribers get incident and update emails. | Public status pages and reports, in every plan. |
| Team | Unlimited members on every plan; Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles. | Unlimited users. |
| Sign-in | Two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app. | Not compared: we did not find it on the pages we checked. |
Price
Pingdom pricing against ours at 5, 25 and 100 sites
Our prices are in euro, a month, excl. VAT, the same billed monthly or prepaid. One HTTP monitor per site unless the row says more. Pingdom showed these prices in euro to a visitor in the EU; other regions can see other amounts. Its pricing page does not say whether VAT is included. We show the monthly price and, after the slash, the price per month billed yearly, for the smallest tier that fits.
| Sites | UptimeVanguard | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| 5 sites, HTTP only | €10.00 | €16 / €14.33 (10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check) |
| 25 sites, HTTP only | €40.00 | €33 / €29.75 (25 uptime checks, 4 advanced checks) |
| 100 sites, HTTP only | €130.00 | €120 / €110 (100 uptime checks, 20 advanced checks) |
At 5 sites, UptimeVanguard costs €10.00 a month against €16 for Pingdom’s smallest tier. Every UptimeVanguard price includes heartbeats, SSL score, broken links and application health on every site, and unlimited team members.
When Pingdom may fit better
- If you need transaction checks that click through a page in a browser, or real user monitoring, Pingdom offers both.
- If you need probes in more than 100 locations, or mail server (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) and UDP checks, Pingdom lists them.
For everything else, UptimeVanguard covers it in one price per site. See every feature and the full price list, compare us with Hyperping, UptimeRobot and Better Stack, or see all comparisons. Use cases: agencies, e-commerce and MSPs.
Sources
All Pingdom facts on this page come from these public pages, last checked on 2026-11-11:
- Pingdom pricing
- Pingdom uptime monitoring
- Pingdom documentation: what is a check
- SolarWinds processors and sub-processors
Pingdom is a trademark of its owner. UptimeVanguard is not affiliated with SolarWinds. Something here out of date or wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Questions
Questions about switching from Pingdom
How does UptimeVanguard pricing compare with Pingdom?
At 5 sites we cost €10 a month, excl. VAT, against €16 for Pingdom’s 10-check tier. At 25 and 100 sites we cost €40 and €130 a month; Pingdom’s tiers for 25 and 100 checks cost €33 and €120. Our price includes heartbeats, SSL score, broken links and application health on every site.
What can UptimeVanguard check on a web page?
HTTP checks with any method, headers, a request body and authentication, with assertions on the status code and on text the response must or must not contain. A daily scan finds broken links and mixed content. We do not run browser transaction checks.
Where is my data?
With us, the application, its databases and your check results are at Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany, and our GDPR data processing agreement is public. SolarWinds’ sub-processor list names AWS, United States, as the host of Pingdom.
Does UptimeVanguard have a free plan?
Yes: 3 sites checked every 5 minutes, with every check type and every alert channel. No card. We found no free plan on Pingdom’s pricing page; it has a 30-day trial.
Start free
Monitor your first sites today, free.
Start with seven days with every check type on 5 sites, then the Free plan: 3 sites with every check type and every alert channel. No card. Website and API outages confirmed from a second region, from an EU company that keeps your data in Germany.