Vigil compared with the tools you are probably using
Each page lists the competitor's real public prices with the source, what they do better than Vigil, where Vigil is ahead, and what a small team of 5 people with 3 servers and 50 monitors would pay on each.
Better Stack
uptime and incident managementUptime monitoring, incident management and a telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) product, priced per responder and per pack.
Small team: about $240/month
UptimeRobot
uptime monitoringThe best-known free uptime checker, with paid tiers for faster intervals, seats, SMS credits and status pages.
Small team: $35–41/month plus seat add-ons, with no server monitoring
Datadog
observability platformThe full observability platform: infrastructure, APM, logs, synthetics, RUM, security and more, each billed separately.
Small team: from $45/month for hosts alone, typically several hundred with synthetics and logs
New Relic
observability platformAll-in-one observability priced by data ingested and by user: generous free tier, expensive full-platform seats.
Small team: $10/month for one full user, $406/month for five, plus any ingest above 100 GB
Freshping
uptime monitoring (discontinued)Freshworks' free uptime monitor, shut down in March 2026. This page is for the people it left behind.
Small team: not available (service discontinued)
Uptime Kuma
open-source uptime monitoringThe beloved open-source, self-hosted uptime monitor (MIT licence, 90k+ GitHub stars, 90+ notification services).
Small team: $0 plus a VPS and your time
Pingdom
synthetic and real user monitoringSolarWinds' long-running synthetic and real-user monitoring service, priced with a slider by check count and pageviews.
Small team: see their pricing page (roughly $78/month for 50 checks, by third-party reports)
StatusCake
uptime monitoringUK-based uptime, page-speed, SSL and domain monitoring with straightforward plans.
Small team: $20.41–24.49/month with no server monitoring
Checkly
synthetic monitoring as codeMonitoring as code for developers: Playwright browser checks and API checks, billed per run.
Small team: $64/month plus per-run overage (hundreds at 1-minute intervals)
Dynatrace
enterprise observability platformEnterprise observability with AI-driven root cause (Davis), priced by the hour per host, per GiB of logs and per synthetic request.
Small team: roughly $175/month for 3 hosts plus $430–2,160/month for 50 synthetic monitors depending on interval
How we compare
- Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, read in September 2026, and are cited on every page. Slider-based or hidden prices say "see their pricing page" rather than a guess.
- Where a competitor is better (Datadog's depth, Checkly's Playwright checks, Better Stack's incident management) we say so, and every page has a "when to pick them instead" section.
- Vigil's own limits are listed on every page too: no browser checks, no SMS or phone calls, no on-call rotations.
Vigil in one paragraph
Uptime, API and multi-step checks, cron heartbeats, domain/DNS and TLS monitoring, a server agent with logs, Kubernetes, databases and vulnerability scans, Real User Monitoring, private status pages on your domain, team seats with roles, alerts on Telegram, Slack, Discord and a dozen more, and one-click AI root cause on every incident. $10/month on Pro, $25 on Enterprise, $49/month self-hosted. Product tour.