Yes, Phare has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 100,000 monitoring events per month and 10 AI incident summaries per month. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $1.50/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Phare is a European uptime monitoring and incident management platform with status pages and analytics. It monitors websites and servers, sends alerts, manages incidents, and publishes public or private status pages from a single hosted service.
The pricing page lists a free Hobby plan with unlimited users and projects, 100,000 monitoring events per month, 10 AI incident summaries per month, public status pages with unlimited custom domains and SSL, and no SMS or voice alerts. The paid Scale plan starts at 5€ per month plus usage, so the free offering is a perpetual capped tier rather than a trial.
- Website and server uptime monitoring
- Incident management and alerts
- Public status pages with custom domains
- 100,000 monitoring events monthly
- 10 AI incident summaries monthly
- Unlimited users and projects
- No SMS or voice alerts
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable and does not require a credit card, but it is still capped: the main limits are monthly monitoring events and AI incident summaries, plus no SMS or voice alerts. The cheapest paid plan starts at about $5/month, and the free plan covers roughly one-fifth of that practical capacity, so its value lands around $1.50/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Unlimited users and projects.
- 100,000 monitoring events per month.
- 10 AI incident summaries per month.
- Public status pages with unlimited custom domains and SSL.
- No SMS or voice alerts included.
See Phare pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Scale
- monitoring events
- 500,000 per month
- AI incident summaries
- 100 per month
- SMS / voice alerts
- 20 per month
- additional monitoring events
- €0.00001 per unit
- additional AI incident summaries
- €0.01 per unit
- additional SMS / voice alerts
- €0.1 per unit
- Unlimited features
- Projects, team members, integrations, alerts
- Public and private status pages
- Unlimited custom domains with SSL
- 20 SMS / voice alerts
Custom
- On-premise monitoring
- Custom SLAs
- SEPA Direct Debit
- Invoice-based procurement support
Pricing extracted from Phare's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Phare free forever?
Yes. Phare has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Phare require a credit card?
No. You can start on Phare's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Phare's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Phare's cheapest paid plan is Scale at $5 / month.
What is Phare's free tier worth?
Phare's free tier is worth about $1.50 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 50/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
