Freshping shut down March 6, 2026. Compare free uptime monitoring alternatives: UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Checkly, StatusCake, Pulsetic, Cronitor. Catalogue dates July to November 2026.

Freshping Alternatives

Freshping — Freshworks' free uptime monitoring tool that offered 50 monitors with 1-minute check intervals and public status pages — shut down on March 6, 2026. Free accounts have been disabled, paid plans will expire at end of term, and all data will be deleted 90 days later (~June 4, 2026). Freshworks has not offered a replacement product.

If you relied on Freshping for uptime monitoring, here are the best free alternatives — several match or exceed Freshping's 50-monitor free tier.

Free Tier Removed

Freshping shut down entirely. Free accounts disabled March 6, 2026. Paid plans expire at end of term. All data deleted 90 days later (~June 4, 2026). No replacement product offered by Freshworks Source ↗

Before: Free plan: 50 monitors, 1-minute check intervals, public status pages, multi-location checks, email/Slack alerts
After: Service discontinued. No free or paid plan available

Top Alternatives

BetterStack Free stable

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Checkly Hobby stable

Synthetic monitoring — 10 uptime monitors, 1K browser check runs, 10K API check runs/month, 6 locations

UptimeRobot Free stable

Free $ 0 /month. 50 monitors, 5 min. monitoring interval, Dependency monitoring, HTTP, port & ping monitor, Keyword monitor, API monitoring, UDP monitoring, Location-specific monitoring, Slow response alerts, DNS monitoring, SSL & Domain exp. monitor, Only 5 integrations, Basic status pages

Pulsetic Free stable

Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages

Instatus Starter stable

Starter plan: 15 monitors, 2-minute check interval, 5 team members, 2 on-call members, public status page, 200 subscribers, email alerts

OpenStatus Free stable

Open-source status page and monitoring. Free plan: 1 monitor, 1 status page, 3 components, 10-minute check intervals, 6 global regions, 14-day data retention

Upptime Free OSS

Free OSS (MIT). GitHub-powered uptime monitor and status page. Uses GitHub Actions for checks every 5 minutes, GitHub Issues for incidents, GitHub Pages for the status page. Zero server costThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-09, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

StatusCake Free stable

Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors, 5-min intervals, 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 SSL monitor, email alerts, basic integrations

Cronitor Hacker

Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single userWhen we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-01, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Uptimia Free stable

Website uptime monitoring. The free plan has one website and one API monitor, each checked as often as every 5 minutes; transaction, page-speed and real-user monitoring start with the paid plans. New accounts start on a 30-day trial with no credit card and move to the free plan unless they upgrade.

OnlineOrNot Free stable

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts

Hyperping Free stable

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts

360 Monitoring Lite stable

Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check interval, 24-hour data retention, email alerts

Free Tier Comparison

How each alternative's free tier compares to what Freshping offered. Freshping's free plan included 50 monitors, 1-minute intervals, and public status pages.

Tool Free Monitors Check Interval Status Pages Alerts Log Retention
Freshping (discontinued) 501 min✅Email, Slack 6 months
UptimeRobot 505 min✅Email 3 months
Better Stack 103 min✅Email, Slack 3 days
Checkly 1010 min—Email, Slack 30 days
StatusCake 105 min—Email 7 days
Pulsetic 105 min✅Email 3 months
Cronitor 55 min✅Email, Slack 30 days
Upptime Unlimited5 min✅Email Unlimited

✅ = included in free tier   — = not included or requires paid plan. UptimeRobot free tier is for personal/non-commercial use only.

Quick Comparison

Tool Free Tier Details Stability
BetterStack Free 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1... stable
Checkly Hobby Synthetic monitoring — 10 uptime monitors, 1K browser check runs, 10K API check runs/month, 6 locations stable
UptimeRobot Free Free $ 0 /month. 50 monitors, 5 min. monitoring interval, Dependency monitoring, HTTP, port & ping monitor, Keyword moni... stable
Pulsetic Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status page... stable
Instatus Starter Starter plan: 15 monitors, 2-minute check interval, 5 team members, 2 on-call members, public status page, 200 subscribe... stable
OpenStatus Free Open-source status page and monitoring. Free plan: 1 monitor, 1 status page, 3 components, 10-minute check intervals, 6 ... stable
Upptime Free OSS Free OSS (MIT). GitHub-powered uptime monitor and status page. Uses GitHub Actions for checks every 5 minutes, GitHub Is... —
StatusCake Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors, 5-min intervals, 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 SSL monitor, email alerts, b... stable
Cronitor Hacker Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alert... —
Uptimia Free Website uptime monitoring. The free plan has one website and one API monitor, each checked as often as every 5 minutes; ... stable
OnlineOrNot Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team ... stable
Hyperping Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic... stable
360 Monitoring Lite Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check i... stable

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