Yes, Pingmeter has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to 5 uptime monitors, 10-minute scan intervals, and 14 days of detailed data history. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $1.00/mo.
About
Pingmeter is a website uptime monitoring service that checks targets from multiple locations at configurable intervals, then sends alerts only after downtime is confirmed and recovery attempts fail. The service includes status pages, email, SMS, voice call, DNS failover, maintenance windows, delayed alarms, and protected recovery actions using key-based SSH login.
The free plan includes 5 uptime monitors, a 10-minute scan interval, and 14 days of detailed data history. It is limited to one category and excludes SMS, voice, scheduling, and recovery actions, so it is suited to small monitoring setups rather than full incident automation.
- 5 uptime monitors on free plan
- 10-minute scan interval
- 14 days detailed data history
- Multiple-location downtime checks
- Public status pages on subdomain
- Email alerts on confirmed downtime
- Maintenance scheduling excluded from free
- SMS and voice notifications excluded
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a small but usable starter offer: it includes 5 monitors, 10-minute checks, 14 days of history, and email alerts, while excluding the pro recovery and phone/SMS features. Compared with the cheapest paid plan at $4.99/month, it delivers roughly 20% of the entry plan’s capacity, so a fair monthly value is about $1. It is capped rather than unlimited, and the page also advertises a 10-day trial, so there is some additional low-friction access beyond the free tier.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to 5 uptime monitors.
- 10-minute scan intervals.
- 14 days of detailed data history.
- Email notifications.
- Limited to 1 category; excludes SMS/voice notifications, scheduling, and recovery actions.
See Pingmeter pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- uptime monitors
- 25
- scan interval minutes
- 5
- detailed data history
- 30 days
- included credits
- 25
- 25 uptime monitors
- 5-minute scan intervals
- 30 days detailed data history
- Email notifications
- Included credits: 25
Basic
- uptime monitors
- 50
- scan interval minutes
- 1
- detailed data history
- 60 days
- included credits
- 50
- 50 uptime monitors
- 1-minute scan intervals
- 60 days detailed data history
- Email notifications
- Included credits: 50
Standard
- uptime monitors
- 100
- scan interval minutes
- 1
- detailed data history
- unlimited
- sub-users
- 5
- 100 uptime monitors
- 1-minute scan intervals
- Unlimited detailed data history
- Email notifications
- Voice call notifications
- SMS notifications
- Recovery actions
- 5 sub-users
Professional
- uptime monitors
- 250
- scan interval minutes
- 1
- detailed data history
- unlimited
- sub-users
- 10
- 250 uptime monitors
- 1-minute scan intervals
- Unlimited detailed data history
- Email notifications
- Voice call notifications
- SMS notifications
- Recovery actions
- 10 sub-users
Enterprise
- uptime monitors
- 500
- scan interval minutes
- 1
- detailed data history
- unlimited
- sub-users
- 20
- 500 uptime monitors
- 1-minute scan intervals
- Unlimited detailed data history
- Email notifications
- Voice call notifications
- SMS notifications
- Recovery actions
- 20 sub-users
Pricing extracted from Pingmeter's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Pingmeter free forever?
Yes. Pingmeter has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Pingmeter's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Pingmeter's cheapest paid plan is Starter at $4.99 / month.
What is Pingmeter's free tier worth?
Pingmeter's free tier is worth about $1.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 34/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
