For several years Freshping was the answer to "what is the best free uptime monitor" — fifty monitors at one-minute checks, status pages included, no commercial-use restriction, no catch. It is winding down, and this review is mostly about what its users should do next.
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Should I still use Freshping?
No, not for anything you depend on. Freshping is being wound down and its users pointed towards Site24x7, which is a much larger and more expensive platform rather than a like-for-like replacement. If you were there because it was free and simple, plan a move now rather than waiting to be moved.
Freshping was Freshworks' uptime monitoring product. It checked websites at one-minute intervals, hosted status pages, and alerted by email and integrations — and it did all of it free, at limits most competitors reserved for paid tiers.
That generosity made it the default recommendation for anyone monitoring a set of sites on no budget. Fifty monitors at one-minute checks, with no restriction on commercial use, was simply better than every paid entry tier around it.
It is now being wound down, with users directed towards Site24x7 elsewhere in the Freshworks and ManageEngine family.
Written in the past tense deliberately — this is a record of what is going away.
Around fifty monitors at one-minute checks, free, with no commercial-use restriction. Nothing else has matched it and probably nothing will.
Public status pages included at no cost, when most competitors charged for them.
Add a URL and it worked. No configuration maze and no concepts to learn.
Checks from several regions even on the free plan.
Natural fit for teams already using Freshdesk or Freshservice.
Better designed than most free tools, and better than several paid ones.
It was free, which is exactly why its wind-down is a problem for the people who relied on it.
| What | Then | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | ~50 monitors, 1-minute checks, status pages | Winding down — verify current status |
| Migration path | n/a | Pointed towards Site24x7 |
| Like-for-like replacement | n/a | None at that scale, free |
Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement. Every figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
Being straight about this: our free plan is one monitor. If you were running fifty on Freshping for nothing, no free plan anywhere replaces that, ours included, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling to you.
The realistic question is which is the smallest paid plan that covers what you were doing free. Ours is $5/month for 25 uptime monitors, 25 watched pages and 25 heartbeats, with status pages included — which for most former Freshping users is closer to their actual usage than a platform licence. Site24x7 is the better answer if you also need servers, APM or checks from specific countries.
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Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
It is being wound down, with users pointed towards Site24x7. Check the current status directly with Freshworks before making plans, but do not build anything new on it.
Roughly fifty monitors at one-minute checks, with status pages and no commercial-use restriction. Those are paid-tier limits almost everywhere else, and it was genuinely free.
No. It is a far larger observability platform with licence-based pricing. It is a good product, but arriving there from a free simple monitor is a significant jump in both cost and complexity.
Work out how many monitors you actually need — usually far fewer than fifty — then find the cheapest plan covering that. Free plans elsewhere are much smaller, so a modest paid plan is usually the honest answer.
Not hosted. Self-hosting Uptime Kuma is the closest thing: free and unlimited, but you run and maintain it, and it goes down when your server does.
No. It was uptime monitoring only.
No heartbeat or dead-man's-switch monitoring.
Not for anything that matters. Migrating monitoring while it still works is straightforward; migrating after it stops means finding out about an outage the hard way.
Last updated August 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
25 monitors, 25 page watches and 25 heartbeats for $5/mo. Free plan to try it first.