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Down only when probes on three continents agree. Prepaid credits, no seats, no tiers.

PingWise

PingWise Reviews and Details

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  • Monitors: every site checked from 15 probes on 6 continents //
    2026-10-31

Features & Specs

  1. Probe locations

    15 probes in 15 cities on 6 continents, 5 providers

  2. Down confirmation

    2/3 of healthy probes, 3 continents, 3 networks, 2 rounds

  3. Time to alert

    Check interval + about 10 seconds to confirm

  4. Shortest interval

    15 seconds (verified domains)

  5. Monitor types

    HTTP(S), keyword, TLS/expiry, ping, TCP, SMTP, DNS, heartbeat

  6. Domain expiry

    Checked daily, free

  7. Alert channels

    Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, PagerDuty, ntfy, Pushover, webhook

  8. Status pages

    Included, every account

  9. Team members

    Included, no per-seat price

  10. Maintenance windows

    Included

  11. Notes on monitors

    Shown in down alerts

  12. REST API

    Yes, keys per team

  13. Import

    UptimeRobot, updown.io, Uptime Kuma backup, CSV

  14. Free tier

    650,000 credits/month (about 75 sites every 5 minutes), no card

  15. Paid

    Prepaid packs from €5 + VAT, valid 24 months, no subscription

  16. Data location

    EU, operated from Greece, GDPR export and deletion

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Questions & Answers

As answered by people managing PingWise.
  1. What makes PingWise unique?

    A site is marked down only when two thirds of 15 probes agree, from at least three continents and three networks, two rounds in a row. One city's bad route never pages anyone, and every alert shows what each probe saw. Pricing is per check: 650,000 free credits a month, then prepaid packs from €5, with no seats or tiers.

  2. Why should a person choose PingWise over its competitors?

    Fewer false alarms and a smaller bill. Most monitors alert when one or two locations fail; PingWise confirms across continents first, and confirmation re-checks are free. Status pages, team members, all alert channels and the API are included in every account instead of being sold as plan add-ons. Switching is easy: import from UptimeRobot, updown.io, Uptime Kuma or CSV, and optionally run both side by side for 14 days to compare their alerts with ours.

  3. How would you describe the primary audience of PingWise?

    Web agencies, hosting providers, MSPs and small dev and ops teams who watch many sites and are tired of being woken by alerts that turn out to be false. Also freelancers and side projects that fit in the free 650,000 credits a month.

  4. What's the story behind PingWise?

    PingWise was built by Hostbox, a hosting provider in Greece. Uptime monitoring always felt overpriced: watch many sites every minute and you end up on a big plan tier, paying for seats and extras on top. So PingWise charges per check instead: 650,000 free credits a month, then prepaid packs from €5, with status pages, team members and every alert channel included. It also waits until probes on three continents agree before calling a site down. It started as the monitoring for Hostbox's customer sites and opened to everyone in October 2026.

  5. Which are the primary technologies used for building PingWise?

    Python and Django for the central service, PostgreSQL for data, and a dependency-free Python agent on 15 dedicated servers at 5 providers.

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