Probecast vs Pingdom
SolarWinds' veteran monitoring product: uptime, transactions and real user monitoring for a company's own sites.
The short version
Pingdom is built for one company watching its own product, priced by monitor volume. Probecast is built for the dev or agency watching many client projects on a flat plan — up to 15 clients on Agency — with the client report included. Deep RUM on one product, pick Pingdom; a portfolio of client sites, pick Probecast.
Probecast is monitoring plus monthly client reports for devs and agencies who ship projects for other people. It watches websites, APIs, cron jobs, TCP ports, browser flows and public MCP servers from 4 regions, groups everything by client and ends each month in a white-label report — with an API, a CLI and an MCP server so your coding agent can manage monitors too.
What each one does.
| Capability | Pingdom | Probecast |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitoring | Yes, mature and global | Yes — 4 regions, down to 1-minute checks |
| Real user monitoring (RUM) | Yes — a core feature | No RUM; a cookieless first-party pixel covers traffic and conversion |
| Synthetic transactions | Yes | Yes — browser flows with screenshots on Agency |
| Pricing model | Scales with monitors and pageviews | Flat per plan — adding one more client site does not change the bill |
| Client grouping and team scoping | Organised for one company | Per-client grouping, per-client team access and audit log |
| Monthly client reports | Uptime and performance reports | White-label month-end report with uptime, traffic, revenue and support |
| Third-party provider catalog | You create each check | 1,000+ providers already checked from 4 regions |
| API, CLI and MCP for coding agents | API | REST API, CLI and MCP server |
Capabilities checked October 2026 · Pingdom details from public materials — tell us if something is out of date
Pingdom pricing
Subscription sized by the number of uptime monitors and RUM pageviews. Pricing on pingdom.com.
Probecast pricing
Flat plans: Free · Indie $9 · Startup $25 · Agency $150/mo for up to 15 clients, 100 website monitors and 100 custom API checks.
When Pingdom is the better choice
- One product, and real user monitoring of its pages matters to you.
- You are already on the SolarWinds stack.
- You need years of enterprise track record in the vendor file.
When Probecast is the better choice
- You watch many small and medium client sites and want the bill to stay flat.
- The deliverable is a client-ready report, not an internal dashboard.
- You want revenue and support in the same picture as uptime.
Does Probecast do RUM?
No. Probecast ships a cookieless first-party pixel for traffic, campaigns and conversion — lighter than RUM and client-friendly — plus synthetic browser checks for the flows that matter. If per-pageview performance timing is the requirement, Pingdom is the better fit.
What does "flat plan" mean exactly?
Plans are priced by tier, not per monitor: Agency covers up to 15 clients, 100 website monitors, 100 custom API checks and the full catalog for $150/mo. The published caps are the whole price.
See it with your own projects.
Start free with one project — or add a monitor from the terminal with npx probecast.
Pingdom is a trademark of its owner. Probecast is not affiliated with and does not endorse or disparage Pingdom; this page reflects public information as of October 2026 and both products evolve. Found an error? Tell us at probecast.io/contact and we will fix it.