Comparison
ManageWP, now owned by GoDaddy, is free for unlimited sites and sells everything else per site per month. Uptime monitoring is one of those add-ons, which makes this comparison a conversation about what each dollar buys.
Researched and verified on 2026-08-15. We recheck competitor pricing quarterly.
You do not want monitoring itemised. Status page with a custom domain, white label, Playwright tests, visual regression, RUM, Lighthouse and security headers all sit inside one Professional plan. You also monitor APIs, ports and stores on other platforms, and you want the invoice in PLN.
You want a free panel for an unlimited number of WordPress sites. Safe updates, cloning and migration, a monthly cloud backup, one click login, maintenance mode, client reports and team collaboration cost nothing. Uptime monitoring is then 1 USD per site per month, which for a small portfolio of pure WordPress sites is hard to beat.
| Feature | PingView | ManageWP |
|---|---|---|
| Cost of entry for monitoringPingView includes 10 monitors on the free plan. The ManageWP panel is free, but the Uptime Monitor add-on is billed per site from the first one. | 0 PLN | 1 USD / site |
| Native monitor typesPingView: HTTP, TCP, ICMP ping, heartbeat. ManageWP monitors the WordPress sites connected to the panel. | 4 | 1 |
| Targets that are not WordPressAPIs, ports, hosts, PrestaShop and Magento stores. | Available | Not available |
| Public status page for clientsIncluded from the PingView Free plan, custom domain and white label from Professional. Not found in the ManageWP feature list (checked 2026-08-15). | Available | Not available |
| White labelIncluded in the PingView Professional plan. A separate ManageWP add-on. | Available | 1 USD / site |
| Advanced client reportsPingView sends a weekly PDF report. ManageWP includes a basic report for free and charges for the advanced one. | Available | 1 USD / site |
| Browser tests of the checkoutPlaywright scenarios from Professional. Not found in ManageWP public materials. | Available | Not available |
| Visual regression testingNot found in ManageWP public materials. | Available | Not available |
| Real User MonitoringManageWP connects Google Analytics, which reports traffic, not the performance a real visitor experienced. | Available | Not available |
| Security headers and TLS analysisNot found in ManageWP public materials. | Available | Not available |
| Host metrics, CPU, RAM, diskPingView collects them through its own Linux agent. | Available | Not available |
| Backups and restoreManageWP: a monthly cloud backup free, full backups 2 USD per site per month. PingView has no backup feature. | Not available | Available |
| Updates, cloning, migrationFree in the ManageWP panel. PingView does not touch the client site. | Not available | Available |
| Vulnerability protection2 USD per site per month at ManageWP. Nothing equivalent at PingView. | Not available | Available |
| SEO rank tracking1 USD per site per month at ManageWP. Nothing equivalent at PingView. | Not available | Available |
| Polish interface and PLN invoicingManageWP prices and communicates in USD only (checked 2026-08-15). | 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.
At ManageWP, uptime, advanced reports and white label are three separate add-ons at 1 USD per site per month each. At PingView the status page with a custom domain, white label, synthetic tests, visual regression, RUM, Lighthouse and security headers are inside one Professional plan. Twenty sites with the set an agency actually wants is roughly 100 USD a month there.
Ten monitors, a status page and the plugins at no cost. The free thing at ManageWP is the management panel; monitoring starts being billed at the first site.
HTTP, TCP, ICMP and heartbeat against any target, with plugins for PrestaShop and Magento 2 that create the monitor from the store admin.
Playwright checkout tests, visual regression, RUM, Lighthouse, security headers, TLS analysis and correlation against AWS, Azure and Cloudflare status pages. None of these were found in ManageWP public materials.
Interface in Polish, prices in PLN, invoice from a Polish entity, SMS through a Polish provider, data processing agreement under Polish jurisdiction.
Their free tier is genuinely generous, and pretending otherwise would not survive the first click on their pricing page.
Safe updates, cloning and migration, a monthly cloud backup, one click login, maintenance mode, client reports, Google Analytics and team collaboration, on an unlimited number of sites, for nothing. PingView has none of that.
Four product areas we do not cover in any form.
Ten sites monitored is 10 USD a month. Our cheapest paid plan is 99 PLN. An agency that only needs "tell me when it is down" pays less there.
ManageWP belongs to GoDaddy. For some clients that answers the vendor stability question in a way a small Polish company cannot.
ManageWP is a panel for maintaining WordPress sites, with monitoring sold beside it. PingView is monitoring, with plugins that make WordPress, PrestaShop and Magento easy to onboard. If your portfolio is pure WordPress and you already live in that panel, add their add-on. If you sell the client a status page, monitor more than WordPress, or want the checkout tested, that is a different product and this is it.
Choose the perfect plan for your monitoring needs.
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Starter
$24.99/mo
25 monitors
~1.00 $/monitor
Professional
$74.99/mo
100 monitors
~0.75 $/monitor
Enterprise
Custom pricing
Custom limits
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The panel is, for an unlimited number of sites, and so are safe updates, cloning, monthly cloud backup and basic client reports. Uptime monitoring, full backups, white label and advanced reports are add-ons priced per site per month.
Their pricing page does not state the interval, so we will not quote one. PingView checks every 5 minutes on the free plan and every minute from Professional.
Yes: any URL, TCP port, host or heartbeat, plus PrestaShop and Magento 2 plugins.
With PingView, from the free plan, with a custom domain and your own branding from Professional. No status page feature was found in the ManageWP materials as of 2026-08-15.
It depends on what you turn on. Uptime alone at ManageWP is 20 USD a month. Uptime plus backups plus advanced reports plus white label is about 100 USD. The PingView Professional plan is 299 PLN for 100 monitors and includes the status page, synthetic tests and RUM, but no backups.
Every claim about ManageWP 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 ManageWP pricing yourselfTen monitors, a status page and the WordPress plugin on the free plan.