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SiteGuardian vs Freshping. Uptime monitoring plus four checks it does not run.
Freshping runs uptime monitoring with a free 10-monitor tier and a paid ladder historically anchored at $9 / $29 / $59 / $99 / $199 per month (Sprout / Blossom / Garden / Estate / Forest, verified against the 2025-07-17 archived pricing snapshot). Per the published Freshworks feature surface, Freshping ships HTTP / HTTPS uptime probes, status pages on paid tiers, 30+ probe locations, alerts via email / SMS / voice call / Slack / webhooks, maintenance windows, and iOS / Android apps. Freshping does not ship a broken-link crawler, does not ship a dedicated checkout-path probe, does not ship a dedicated form-path probe, and does not watch customer-domain SSL cert renewal dates. SiteGuardian ships uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, and form-failure monitoring on every paid plan, in one loud email.
- One loud email when your site goes down. No dashboard login.
- Permanent minutely probe cadence on the paid SiteGuardian plan.
- SSL expiry alerts on every paid SiteGuardian plan, included — not an add-on.
- Watches the URL list you configured and re-probes it for broken links, in the same email.
- Watches your checkout and your contact form — alerts in the same email when either breaks.
- No free tier on SiteGuardian. You pay for the watch, by the month.
- Custom slow threshold per URL, set in plain English.
- Built for one founder, one inbox, one storefront.
When Freshping is the right fit
Freshping was the right fit when you wanted a free 10-monitor uptime tier with a public status page, Slack / SMS alert paths, and a built-in mobile app — and you only need HTTP ping-style checks (no SSL calendar, no broken-link crawl, no checkout / form probes).
When SiteGuardian is the right fit
SiteGuardian is the right fit when you have one storefront and want uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, and form-failure monitoring in one loud email at three flat tiers in USD ($19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro, $299 once Lifetime).
Quick answer
SiteGuardian vs Freshping, in one paragraph.
SiteGuardian wins when the watch needs SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, a dedicated checkout-path probe, and a dedicated form-path probe — and the buyer wants one loud email per outage, not a dashboard. Freshping won the free-tier convenience war with up to 10 monitors and a 1-minute probe cadence on Free, a built-in status page on paid Sprout and up, and Slack / SMS / voice-call alert fan-out, but Freshping does not ship a broken-link crawler, does not watch customer-domain cert renewal dates, and does not ship a dedicated checkout- or form-flow recorder SKU. Verified against the 2025-07-17 Wayback snapshot of freshping.com/pricing — the live pricing URL is presently unreachable as a published surface, so verify current tier pricing with the vendor before buying. SiteGuardian Starter is $19/mo for one site and ten URLs; Pro is $39/mo for three sites and fifty URLs; Lifetime is $299 paid once.
What is SiteGuardian vs Freshping?
SiteGuardian is the URL-side monitor for a one-founder shop — uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, form-failure monitoring — at three flat tiers in USD ($19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro, $299 once Lifetime), one loud email per outage. Freshping is a free-tier-first uptime monitor historically sold by Freshworks, with paid plans Sprout ($9/mo) → Forest ($199/mo) on annual billing, a built-in status page, and Slack / SMS / voice-call alert fan-out. They are different buys: SiteGuardian is for the storefront watch; Freshping is for uptime and status pages on a budget.
Does Freshping have a free tier?
Yes — per the published Freshworks feature surface, Freshping Free shipped up to 10 monitors on a 1-minute probe cadence with email + SMS alerts. SiteGuardian does not run a free tier; it is paid from the first URL at $19 a month for Starter. If "permanently free" is the constraint, Freshping Free fits under 10 URLs; if the four SG-killer checks matter, SiteGuardian Starter is the closest comparable at $19/mo.
Does Freshping monitor broken links like a broken-link monitor?
No — Freshping ships HTTP / HTTPS uptime monitoring, not a broken-link crawler. Freshping users who want broken-link coverage monitor each URL in their list individually; that catches a 404, but it does not crawl the links inside an HTML page. SiteGuardian watches your configured URL list on the same cadence as the uptime checks; broken-link alerts land in the same inbox as outages.
Does Freshping monitor SSL certificate expiry on my domain?
Not in the way SiteGuardian does. Freshping flags TLS handshake errors during a probe run, so a fully-expired cert is technically detected as a probe failure, but Freshping does not watch your domain’s certificate renewal calendar the way SiteGuardian does. There is no Freshping SKU that pages you 30 / 14 / 7 days before your cert expires. SiteGuardian ships SSL expiry monitoring on every paid plan as part of the base product.
Which is cheaper for one storefront?
Freshping Free is $0/mo and is the cheaper option if you only need uptime + status pages and you can live without SSL expiry alerts, broken-link coverage, and dedicated checkout / form probes. The moment any of those four checks become required, SiteGuardian Starter at $19/mo is cheaper than stacking Freshping add-ons — SiteGuardian ships all four in the same email. Compare free vs $19/mo for a single storefront with the four checks, not feature counts.
Feature-by-feature
Where each one differs, side by side.
The rows below are the axes a small shop should care about most when choosing a monitor. Anything outside this list is something most small shops do not use.
| Feature | SiteGuardian | Competitor |
|---|---|---|
| Probe cadence (paid) | Every minute (Pro); every 5 min (Starter, Lifetime) | Every 1 minute on every paid tier |
| Probe cadence (free tier) | Every 1 minute, up to 10 monitors on Free | |
| Alert destination | One inbox | Email, SMS, voice call, Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks |
| Public status page | ||
| Custom slow threshold per URL | Not yet available | |
| Maintenance windows | Pause via dashboard | Built-in scheduler on paid tiers |
| Free tier | Up to 10 monitors on Free | |
| Pricing model (paid) | $19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro, $299 once Lifetime | Historical paid ladder: Sprout $9/mo, Blossom $29/mo, Garden $59/mo, Estate $99/mo, Forest $199/mo (annual). Verify current pricing with vendor — see freshness note. |
| AI-powered root cause | Not yet available | Not yet available |
| SSL expiry alerts | Not yet available — TLS check flags errors during probe, not cert-domain renewal calendar | |
| Broken-link coverage | Watches your configured URL list | |
| Checkout-failure monitoring | ||
| Form-failure monitoring | ||
| Log retention on paid | On the URL probe events; not a separate logs product | 90-day uptime history on paid tiers |
Pricing, line by line
Freshping’s real public pricing, next to SiteGuardian’s.
Each row is one tier the competitor publishes on their pricing page, plus SiteGuardian Starter / Pro / Lifetime. The verification trail below the table names the source URL and the date we re-checked it.
| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
SiteGuardianSiteGuardian Starter | $19/month | 1 site, 10 URLs, every-5-min probes |
SiteGuardianSiteGuardian Pro | $39/month | 3 sites, 50 URLs, every-1-min probes |
SiteGuardianSiteGuardian Lifetime | $299 once | 1 site, 50 URLs, every-5-min probes, all future updates included |
CompetitorFreshping Free | $0/month | Up to 10 monitors, 1-minute probe cadence, email + SMS alerts, 5 status-page subscribers. No card on file. Verify current limits with vendor — see freshness note. |
CompetitorFreshping Sprout | $9/month, billed annually | Historical pricing: 30 monitors, 1-minute probe cadence, status page with custom domain, all alert channels. Verify current pricing with vendor — see freshness note. |
CompetitorFreshping Blossom | $29/month, billed annually | Historical pricing: 100 monitors, full Slack / MS Teams integration, SMS + voice-call alerts, unlimited status-page subscribers. Verify current pricing with vendor — see freshness note. |
CompetitorFreshping Garden | $59/month, billed annually | Historical pricing: 250 monitors, priority email support, custom-branded status pages. Verify current pricing with vendor — see freshness note. |
CompetitorFreshping Estate | $99/month, billed annually | Historical pricing: 500 monitors, 30+ probe locations, dedicated support. Verify current pricing with vendor — see freshness note. |
CompetitorFreshping Forest | $199/month, billed annually | Historical pricing: 1,000 monitors, 30+ probe locations, custom SLA, dedicated CSM. Verify current pricing with vendor — see freshness note. |
Verification trail
- SiteGuardian — SiteGuardian Starter: https://siteguardian.app/pricingverified 2026-08-23
- SiteGuardian — SiteGuardian Pro: https://siteguardian.app/pricingverified 2026-08-23
- SiteGuardian — SiteGuardian Lifetime: https://siteguardian.app/pricingverified 2026-08-23
- Freshping — Freshping Free: https://www.freshping.com/pricing/verified 2025-07-17
- Freshping — Freshping Sprout: https://www.freshping.com/pricing/verified 2025-07-17
- Freshping — Freshping Blossom: https://www.freshping.com/pricing/verified 2025-07-17
- Freshping — Freshping Garden: https://www.freshping.com/pricing/verified 2025-07-17
- Freshping — Freshping Estate: https://www.freshping.com/pricing/verified 2025-07-17
- Freshping — Freshping Forest: https://www.freshping.com/pricing/verified 2025-07-17
Honest pros & cons
What each tool genuinely does well — and where it’s rough.
Freshping
Pros
- Free 10-monitor tier with 1-minute probe cadence — the closest fit among standalone uptime tools for a buyer who wants zero-cost monitoring for under 10 URLs.
- Status pages ship with the product on paid Sprout and up; custom domain + branded layout are paid-tier ships — no separate status-page product to buy.
- Wide alert fan-out: email, SMS, voice call, Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks — every channel a support team typically wants is on the box.
- 30+ global probe locations on paid tiers with region-aware alerting.
- iOS / Android mobile apps for on-the-go ack / silence.
- Maintenance windows built in so as-an-orchestrated-deploy shop can pause alerts without manual toggling.
Rough edges
- No broken-link crawler / link-rot detector on the published feature surface — Freshping monitors the URLs you list, it does not crawl the links inside a page.
- No dedicated checkout-path probe or form-path probe SKU — you wire those as extra monitors and the alert lands in the same path as any other ping.
- No SSL certificate expiry watcher on the customer domain — TLS handshake failures surface, but the cert renewal calendar is not watched.
- No per-URL custom slow threshold as a published feature — global slow-threshold only.
- Pricing ladder is in flux post-Freshworks divestiture — verify current Sprout→Forest prices with the vendor; the page at freshping.com/pricing is presently unreachable as a published pricing surface.
SiteGuardian
Pros
- One inbox, one email per outage — broken links, checkout, form, SSL, uptime all stack into the same loud email.
- SSL expiry monitoring, broken-link coverage, dedicated checkout-path probe, and dedicated form-path probe are all in the base product on every paid plan.
- Custom slow threshold per URL on every plan, set in plain English.
- Minutely probe cadence on Pro, paid from day one.
- No free tier but three flat tiers in USD — the bill is the bill, no per-monitor / per-seat / per-check math.
Rough edges
- No free tier; you pay for the watch from the first URL.
- No public status page in the boxed product; no on-call rotation or incident timeline; no native mobile app for alerts.
- No alert fan-out beyond a single inbox — if your team needs Slack, MS Teams, PagerDuty, SMS, or voice-call alerts as a base product, SiteGuardian is not the tool.
- No browser-script recorder for arbitrary synthetic flows — SiteGuardian ships URL-level checks, not recorded multi-step scripts.
Who it’s for
The two buyer profiles — and which one you are.
Freshping is for
A support or dev team that wants a free 10-monitor uptime tier, Slack / SMS / mobile alerting, and a built-in status page, and is willing to live without an SSL cert calendar, a broken-link crawler, or dedicated checkout / form probe SKUs.
SiteGuardian is for
A one-founder Shopify, WordPress, Squarespace, or Wix shop that wants uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, and form-failure monitoring in one loud email without instrumenting the storefront.
The verdict
Freshping for free uptime; SiteGuardian for a watch that also reads your store.
Pick SiteGuardian if
A one-founder Shopify, WordPress, Squarespace, or Wix shop that wants uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, and form-failure monitoring in one loud email at three flat tiers in USD ($19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro, $299 once Lifetime).
Pick Freshping if
A buyer who only needs less than 10 monitors and wants them at zero cost, and is happy with HTTP / HTTPS pings, a built-in status page, and Slack / SMS alerts — without an SSL cert calendar, a broken-link crawler, or dedicated checkout / form probes.
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Try it
If Freshping feels heavier than you need. Try SiteGuardian.
Starter is $19 a month. One site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month. Three sites, fifty URLs, every-minute checks. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.
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