Pulsetic gives away something almost nobody else does — status pages on your own domain, on a free plan, with ten monitors behind them. If a public status page is the deliverable, that is hard to beat. It is worth knowing what is not being watched while those pages stay green.
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Is MonitoringDaddy a real Pulsetic alternative?
Yes, if the status page is one output rather than the point. We include status pages too, from one on the entry plan up to fifty, and the same allowance covers certificates, domain expiry, page content changes and cron heartbeats — none of which Pulsetic monitors. If you only want a free branded status page, theirs is the better answer.
A status page shows what you monitor. If nothing is watching the certificate, the page stays green right up until the site stops loading.
Domains lapse, pages change, scheduled jobs stop running. None of those show up as a failed HTTP check.
Incident updates, maintenance windows and subscriber notifications — the things a status page is for during an incident — begin at $9 a month.
Green marks the stronger option on that row. Third-party pricing and limits change without notice — treat the Pulsetic column as a starting point and confirm current figures on their site before you decide.
| Feature | Pulsetic | MonitoringDaddy |
|---|---|---|
| Status pages | Yes — 3 free, on your own domain | Yes — 1 to 50 depending on plan |
| Custom domain on free plan | Yes — unusual and genuinely good | No free plan |
| Free monitors | 10 | None — from $5/mo for 25 |
| Uptime monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Certificate expiry alerts | No | Yes — standalone type, 1 to 60 day window |
| Domain expiry monitoring | No | Yes — 1 to 180 day window |
| Page content change detection | No | Yes — region selection, ignore rules, before/after images |
| Cron heartbeat monitoring | No | Yes |
| Incident updates and maintenance | From $9/mo | Included |
| Subscriber notifications | From $9/mo | Included |
| Monitors at around $19/mo | 50 (Team) | 50 (Growth) |
| History retained | 3 months on free | Retention depends on plan |
Every comparison page on the internet claims the author's product wins on everything. Here is where it does not.
If any of those are load-bearing for your team, staying put is the correct decision and this page has done its job. Monitoring you actually trust beats monitoring that is marginally cheaper.
Six monitor types and one dashboard. No add-on products, no separate SKUs for the features you assumed were included.
HTTP checks from external infrastructure, as often as every 60 seconds, with downtime and recovery alerts. See the uptime setup guide.
A dedicated monitor type with configurable advance warnings, so a certificate never lapses because nobody owned the renewal. See SSL expiry monitoring.
Registration expiry tracked as its own monitor, warning you months ahead. The outage nobody has a runbook for. See domain expiration monitoring.
Alert when a phrase appears or disappears on a page — defacement, stock changes, silent policy edits. See website change detection.
Watch a competitor or supplier price string and get told the moment it moves. See the price monitoring guide.
Public status pages included on every plan, hosted independently of your infrastructure so they stay up when you do not. See hosted status pages.
Alerts from any of these can be routed to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock or a generic webhook, and a single monitor can carry several channels at once. Everything is available through the REST API on paid plans, so monitors can be created and torn down programmatically rather than clicked through a form.
Flat monthly tiers. No per-seat charges, no credit top-ups, no usage meters — the number below is the whole bill.
| Plan | Monitors | Fastest interval | Alert channels | API | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | Every 30 minutes | — | $0 | |
| Founding Member first 20 only | 25 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $5/mo |
| Basic | 10 | Every 10 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $8/mo |
| Growth | 50 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $19/mo |
| Pro | 100 | Every 60 seconds | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $34/mo |
Annual billing is cheaper on every paid tier. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
There is no automated importer — monitors are re-created by hand, or scripted through the API on paid plans. Budget about a minute per monitor.
List every active check: URL, interval, condition and alert recipients. Most teams find monitors nobody needs any more.
Start with revenue-critical URLs. Set the interval, add the condition, attach the channels your team already watches.
Keep Pulsetic live while the new monitors settle. Compare alerts and confirm nothing is missing.
Move any public status page across, confirm a clean week of overlap, then cancel the old subscription.
This page is written by the team that builds MonitoringDaddy, so treat it as an informed argument rather than a neutral audit. What we can promise is that the claims about our own product are checked against what the software actually does, and the rows where Pulsetic is stronger are marked as such rather than quietly omitted.
Details about Pulsetic come from their public pricing and documentation at the time of writing. Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement, so every third-party figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
One thing worth stating plainly, because most comparison pages fudge it: MonitoringDaddy checks run from our own infrastructure, which is external to yours, but from a single origin rather than a global probe network. That is enough to catch outages and content changes independently of your stack. It is not enough to tell you a site is down in Frankfurt but up in Ohio. If regional verification is a hard requirement, a larger platform will serve you better and we would rather you knew that now.
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Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.
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.
No. Pulsetic does, and it includes custom-domain status pages, which is more generous than most paid plans elsewhere. For a small project wanting a branded status page, theirs is the better answer.
Yes, on every plan — one on the entry plan, up to fifty on Pro — with incident updates and maintenance windows included rather than gated behind a higher tier.
No. There is no certificate expiry alerting, so a renewal you forget will not be caught. That is the main gap and the main reason people look for an alternative.
No. Domain registration lapses are outside its scope.
An uptime check, a certificate, a domain expiry watch, a page content watch or a cron heartbeat, all from the same allowance.
Their Team plan is $19 a month for 50 monitors; our Growth plan is $19 for 50. The prices match, so the question is what a monitor can be — theirs is uptime, ours can be any of five types.
Yes. Pulsetic does this on the free plan; we do it on paid plans.
With us, the certificate is a monitor, so it appears. With Pulsetic there is nothing watching it, so the page stays green until the site itself stops responding.
Last updated August 4, 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
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