Comparison
Checkly is the closest thing PingView has to a technical peer, both run Playwright under the hood. This page is about what differs in the business model, not the browser engine.
Researched and verified on 2026-08-15. We recheck competitor pricing quarterly.
You want the dashboard, status page and AI incident explanations included in the plan you already pay for, not three separate purchases. PingView's Professional plan bundles Playwright synthetic tests, a status page on your own domain and AI root cause analysis together, and the WordPress, PrestaShop and Magento plugins create the monitor straight from the shop admin without writing a line of code.
You run an engineering team that already lives in Terraform and CI/CD, wants checks defined as TypeScript code, and needs probes outside Europe and the US. Checkly ships an official CLI, a Terraform provider and a Pulumi provider, plus 22+ public locations across three continents, none of which PingView has.
| Feature | PingView | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| Native monitor typesPingView: HTTP, TCP, ICMP ping, heartbeat. Checkly: HTTP/API, Browser (Playwright), TCP, DNS, ICMP, heartbeat. SSL is an attribute of an HTTP check on both sides. | 4 | 6 |
| Fastest check intervalCheckly's documentation states a 10 second minimum; the exact threshold per plan is not published. PingView needs Professional for 1 minute. | 1 min | 10 s (declared) |
| Monitoring locationsPingView probes from 5 fixed cities in Europe and the US. Checkly lists 22+ public locations across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, plus private locations on paid plans through a self-hosted agent. | 5 | 22+ |
| Pricing structureCheckly sells Detect, Communicate and Resolve as separate subscriptions, each with its own Hobby, Starter, Team and Enterprise tiers. PingView bundles monitoring, status pages and AI in one plan. | 1 plan | 3 modules |
| Status page included in the monitoring priceCheckly's status pages live in the separate Communicate module, from 9 USD a month, even on top of the Detect Team plan. | Available | Not available |
| AI root cause analysis includedPingView includes AI incident explanations from Professional. Checkly sells this as the separate Resolve module, from 12 USD a month. | Available | Not available |
| Browser tests with PlaywrightBoth run Playwright. Checkly bills browser runs per 1,000 with overage charges past the plan limit; PingView's synthetic runs are a flat monthly allowance included in the plan. | Available | Available |
| Free plan includes browser testsCheckly's free Hobby plan includes 1,000 browser runs a month. PingView's synthetic tests start only from the Professional plan. | Not available | Available |
| Visual regression testingPingView from Professional. Checkly only from Detect Team, its highest paid Detect tier at 64 USD a month. | Available | Available |
| Real User MonitoringNo RUM product was found in Checkly's documentation or pricing pages. | Available | Not available |
| Core Web Vitals / LighthousePingView runs full Lighthouse audits. Checkly runs Lighthouse in the background of browser checks; full metric access was reported as limited in Checkly's own product feedback threads. | Available | Partially available |
| Security header scanningPingView scores headers with the MDN HTTP Observatory engine. No dedicated header scanning product was found for Checkly. | Available | Not available |
| On-call escalation integrationsCheckly has internal alert escalation policies plus native integrations with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Incident.io and Rootly. PingView has none of this. | Not available | Available |
| Monitoring as code (CLI, Terraform, Pulumi)Checkly ships an official CLI, an official Terraform provider and a Pulumi provider. PingView has a REST API only. | Not available | Available |
| E-commerce plugins (WordPress, PrestaShop, Magento)No e-commerce integration was found in Checkly's documentation or integrations page. | Available | Not available |
| Polish interface and PLN pricingCheckly's pricing page shows USD only, and no language switcher was found. | Available | Not available |
Competitor data collected on 2026-08-15 from public pricing and documentation pages. Vendors change plans without notice, so verify current terms before you decide.
Checkly's checks are TypeScript code, deployed through its CLI or Terraform. PingView's browser scenarios are built by clicking through 11 step types (navigate, click, fill, assertions and more), with an optional custom script for teams that want one, so a shop owner or account manager can set up a synthetic test without opening a code editor.
The WordPress plugin published on wordpress.org, plus the PrestaShop and Magento 2 modules, create an account and a monitor from an email address and then show status and incidents inside the shop admin. We found no comparable e-commerce integration in Checkly's documentation or integrations page.
Polish interface, prices in PLN, a Polish legal entity for RODO and DPA, and a Polish SMS provider for alerts to Polish numbers. Checkly's pricing page shows USD only, with no language switcher found and no Polish entity referenced in its terms.
Checkly sells monitoring as three subscriptions: Detect for checks, Communicate for status pages, Resolve for AI root cause analysis. A team running 10 synthetic scenarios every 10 minutes needs 43,200 browser runs a month; the Detect Team plan includes 12,000, so the remaining runs cost roughly 200 USD in overage on top of the 64 USD base, about 264 USD a month for Detect alone, before a status page or AI are added (assumptions: Detect Team overage rate of 6.25 USD per extra 1,000 runs, published pricing as of 2026-08-15). PingView's Professional plan includes the status page and AI incident explanations in that same monthly price, with no per-run overage inside the plan limit.
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Checkly's documentation lists 22+ public locations across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, with private locations available on paid plans through a self-hosted agent. PingView has five fixed probes, all in Europe and the United States. If your customers are in Tokyo or Sao Paulo, we cannot tell you what your site looks like from there.
Checkly is built around monitoring as code: checks live in TypeScript, deploy through an official CLI or a CI/CD pipeline, and can be managed with the official Terraform provider or the Pulumi provider. PingView has a REST API but no CLI and no infrastructure-as-code provider. A team that wants monitoring config in a repository is better served by Checkly today.
Checkly has internal alert escalation policies and native integrations with four dedicated on-call tools. PingView has no escalation policies, no on-call schedules and no integration that provides either, indirectly or otherwise.
Checkly's free Hobby plan includes 1,000 browser runs a month, so a team can evaluate Playwright based synthetic monitoring before paying anything. PingView's synthetic tests start only from the Professional plan; there is no way to try a browser scenario on our free tier today.
Checkly's documentation states a 10 second minimum check interval, though the exact threshold per plan is not published. PingView's fastest interval is 1 minute, available from Professional.
Checkly monitors DNS records as a native check type. PingView has a DNS monitoring flag in its plan table with no implementation behind it.
You run an engineering team already comfortable with Terraform and CI/CD, want checks defined as TypeScript code in a repository, need probes in Asia, Latin America or the Middle East, or want on-call routed through PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Incident.io or Rootly. Checkly covers all of that today. PingView does not, and we would rather say so here than have you find out later.
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Based on Checkly's published Detect Team pricing (64 USD base, 12,000 browser runs included, 6.25 USD per extra 1,000 runs), 10 scenarios checked every 10 minutes need 43,200 runs a month, which works out to about 264 USD a month for the Detect module alone, roughly 987 PLN at a 3.74 PLN/USD rate. That figure does not include a status page or AI explanations, both sold as separate Checkly modules. This is our calculation from their published rate card, not a bundled price Checkly itself advertises.
No. Status pages live in a separate module called Communicate, starting at 9 USD a month, even for a customer already paying 64 USD for the Detect Team plan. PingView includes a status page on your own domain from the Professional plan, inside the same monthly price as the monitoring itself.
Yes, both confirmed in their documentation: an official TypeScript-native CLI and an official Terraform provider, plus a Pulumi provider. PingView has a REST API but no CLI and no infrastructure-as-code provider.
No. PingView probes from five fixed cities in Europe and the US. Checkly's documentation lists 22+ public locations across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
Yes. PingView does not; DNS record monitoring is a flag in our plan table with no checker behind it.
In PingView, yes: AI root cause explanations are included in the Professional plan. In Checkly, no: AI analysis is a separate module called Resolve, starting at 12 USD a month on top of whatever you already pay for Detect.
Every claim about Checkly comes from their public pricing page, documentation and help centre, collected on 2026-08-15 and linked below. Every claim about PingView is checked against our own source code rather than our marketing copy, which is why some rows show limits our own landing pages used to overstate. Where a fact could not be confirmed from a primary source, we leave it out instead of guessing.
Disclosure: PingView publishes this page and PingView is one of the two products compared. We have an obvious interest in the outcome, so we list where the other tool is the better choice and link their pricing page so you can check the numbers yourself.
Check Checkly pricing yourselfRun both on the same site for a month and compare not just what each one caught, but what each one cost once the free runs ran out.