How PylonMon compares

Uptime, heartbeat, and infrastructure monitoring with on-call rotations and incident management included — not sold to you as a second product, and not priced per seat.

What you get	PylonMon Free	healthchecks.io Free	notifier.so Free/Solo	PagerDuty Free
Price	$0 forever	$0	$0 / entry paid	$0 (5 users)
Monitors on free	20 monitors	20 checks	fewer on free	focused on on-call, not checks
Check styles	Heartbeat + HTTP/S + TCP + ping (+ DNS, UDP & Prometheus on paid)	heartbeat (cron) focus	uptime focus	brings its own integrations
Fastest interval (free)	1 minute	varies	slower on free	—
Escalation ladders	Included on FREE	limited	paid	paid tiers
On-call rotations	Team $30 flat — shifts, overrides, per-member paging preference	—	—	its core product — per-user pricing
Alert channels	email, Discord, Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Webex, Telegram, ntfy.sh, web push, SMS, WhatsApp, voice, Zapier, webhooks	many	several	many (enterprise-leaning)
Prometheus & Alertmanager	✓ Pro ($9) — metric-threshold monitors (push or pull) + Alertmanager ingest + scrape us	—	—	via integrations
Public status pages	✓ paid — only the monitors you choose	paid	varies	separate product
Status badges	✓ free	✓	paid	—
Inside and outside your network	✓ both — external checks + pylon-beacon agent (vitals from inside)	inbound pings only	outside only	n/a
Sells your data	Never.	no	?	no

Detect, communicate, resolve: one price, not three

Checkly sells detection (checks), communication (status pages) and resolution (AI root cause) as three products with three prices, then meters browser runs on top. PylonMon sells one thing: the monitor, the alert, the status page and the incident are the same $30. Checkly's public prices as of 2026-09-10:

Team-sized setup	PylonMon Team	Checkly Team
Base plan	$30/mo flat	$64/mo
Uptime monitors included	250	75
Browser journeys	20 journeys, every 5 minutes, included	12,000 browser check runs/month included, then $6.25 per 1,000 runs
Twenty checkout journeys every 5 minutes	$0 extra	≈172,800 runs/month → roughly $1,000/mo in run overage
Status pages	included	separate product: $9–$30/mo
AI on the incident	included on Enterprise (bring your own agent; on-demand explain coming to paid plans)	separate product: $12–$39/mo
More monitors	+25 for $5/mo, prepaid, you add it	$8 per 25 as an add-on
Teammates	5 on Team, unlimited on Enterprise, never per seat	10 on Team
Second-region confirmation before paging	every paid plan	multiple locations, no hold-for-confirmation

Checkly figures from checklyhq.com/pricing on 2026-09-10 (Team plan: 75 uptime monitors, 12,000 browser runs, $6.25 per additional 1,000 runs; Communicate $9–$30; Resolve $12–$39). Their prices change; check their page for today's. The journey math assumes each journey runs every five minutes for a 30-day month.

Where the paid tiers punch up

Pro is $9/mo — 30-second checks, DNS/UDP/TLS-cert/slow-response monitors, incidents + API, a public status page, custom payloads, maintenance windows, an SMS allowance, and the full Prometheus & Alertmanager integration — most competitors don't have it at any price. Most gate half of that behind $20+/user plans.
Team is $30/mo flat — not per-user. Five teammates with real roles (read/write/admin/owner) costs less than one seat almost anywhere else, and adds on-call rotations plus company-scale Prometheus (200 inbound alert streams vs 25 on Pro). And multi-region confirmation comes with every paid plan, Pro included: an outage is verified from a second region before anyone is paged, so a routing blip between one datacenter and your server never wakes you at 3am.
On-call alerting without per-seat pricing. Real on-call rotations (shifts, overrides, page-whoever-is-on) on Team, escalation ladders on every plan, ack-to-silence paging, incident tracking with an API, SMS on paid tiers and voice-call paging on Enterprise — the on-call essentials at $0–$99 flat, instead of $21+ per person per month. Each member even picks how they personally get paged while holding the pager. Enterprise adds SSO and 50 seats.

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