# Source: src/lib/business/vs-pages.ts → vsPages[pingdom]. Keep in sync.

# SiteGuardian vs Pingdom (2026)

> SiteGuardian vs Pingdom. Pingdom is SolarWinds’ paid monitoring platform with synthetic transaction recording and real-user monitoring across 100+ probe locations. Pingdom does not crawl your site for broken links, does not run a dedicated checkout-path probe, and does not run a dedicated form-path probe. SiteGuardian ships uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, and form-failure monitoring on every paid plan, in one loud email.

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Updated: 2026

## TL;DR
- SiteGuardian wins for the URLs Pingdom does not watch; Pingdom wins for the synthetic recorder and RUM. Pingdom is SolarWinds’ paid monitoring platform with a synthetic transaction recorder (record a real browser script, replay it from 100+ probe locations), real-user monitoring with per-region page-load performance and a 13-month data retention, public status pages, and a Subscription Calculator that prices Synthetic Monitoring by Uptime checks + Advanced checks + SMS and prices RUM by monthly pageviews.
- When Pingdom: synthetic transaction recorder, per-region RUM, public status page, per-check Subscription Calculator.
- When SiteGuardian: URL list up to 50 URLs, one loud email per outage, three flat tiers in USD, no script recording.
- The verdict: Pingdom for the synthetic recorder; SiteGuardian for the URLs your recorder cannot reach.

## Pricing at a glance
- SiteGuardian Starter — $19/mo — 1 site, 10 URLs, every-5-min probes.
- SiteGuardian Pro — $39/mo — 3 sites, 50 URLs, every-1-min probes.
- SiteGuardian Lifetime — $299 once — 1 site, 50 URLs, every-5-min probes, every future update included.
- Pingdom Synthetic Monitoring (entry) — Subscription Calculator (annual) — 10 Uptime + 1 Advanced + 50 SMS at the smallest bundle; quantity sliders up to 30,000 Uptime + 2,500 Advanced + 1,500 SMS.
- Pingdom Real User Monitoring (entry) — Subscription Calculator (annual) — 100K pageviews/mo at the smallest bundle; quantity sliders up to 1 billion pageviews/mo.
- Pingdom Enterprise — Contact sales — 500K to 5M+ monthly pageviews on RUM; custom check volume on Synthetics.
- Pingdom 30-day free trial — $0 (30-day trial) — bundles Synthetic Monitoring and RUM; no card-to-start trial; paid after 30 days.

## How they differ
- Probe cadence (paid) — SiteGuardian: Every minute; Pingdom: Up to every minute (Synthetic + RUM).
- Probe cadence (free tier) — SiteGuardian: not available; Pingdom: 30-day free trial (no permanent free tier).
- Alert destination — SiteGuardian: One inbox; Pingdom: Email and SMS, with re-sends up to 4 times.
- Public status page — SiteGuardian: not available; Pingdom: included.
- Custom slow threshold per URL — SiteGuardian: On every plan; Pingdom: Per check.
- Free tier — SiteGuardian: not available; Pingdom: 30-day free trial only; no permanent free tier.
- Pricing model (paid) — SiteGuardian: $19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro, $299 once Lifetime; Pingdom: Subscription Calculator by Uptime + Advanced + SMS, plus RUM by pageviews.
- SSL expiry alerts — SiteGuardian: included; Pingdom: not available.
- Broken-link coverage — SiteGuardian: Watches your configured URL list; Pingdom: not available.
- Checkout-failure monitoring — SiteGuardian: included; Pingdom: not available.
- Form-failure monitoring — SiteGuardian: included; Pingdom: not available.

## When each is the right fit
- SiteGuardian — A one-founder Shopify, WordPress, Squarespace, or Wix shop that wants uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, form-failure monitoring, and SSL expiry in one loud email — without recording a browser script.
- Pingdom — A mid-market or enterprise team that needs to record browser scripts (login, search, cart, checkout) and replay them across 100+ probe locations, with per-region RUM and a public status page in the same product.

## The verdict
- Pingdom for the synthetic recorder; SiteGuardian for the URLs your recorder cannot reach.
- Pick SiteGuardian if: A one-founder Shopify, WordPress, Squarespace, or Wix shop that wants uptime, SSL expiry, broken-link coverage, checkout-failure monitoring, form-failure monitoring in one loud email — without recording a browser script and without paying per-check or per-pageview.
- Pick Pingdom if: A mid-market or enterprise team that needs to record browser scripts (login, search, cart, checkout) and replay them across 100+ probe locations, with per-region real-user monitoring and a public status page in the same product.

## Buying-time FAQ
- Q: Does SiteGuardian have a free tier like Pingdom?
  A: No. SiteGuardian is paid from the first URL — Starter is $19 a month, Pro is $39 a month, Lifetime is $299 once. Pingdom does not ship a permanent free tier either; the entry point is a 30-day free trial that bundles Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring, then the Subscription Calculator bills monthly or annually.
- Q: Is the probe cadence the same as Pingdom?
  A: On the Pingdom paid tier you can run synthetic checks from 100+ probe locations as often as every minute. SiteGuardian probes every minute on Pro and every five minutes on Starter and Lifetime across the URL list you configured.
- Q: Does SiteGuardian support a public status page like Pingdom?
  A: No. Pingdom ships public status pages and reports natively as part of the Synthetic Monitoring product. SiteGuardian does not ship a public status page; status pages are something you would pair alongside it.
- Q: Can I keep using Pingdom and try SiteGuardian together?
  A: Yes — and the realistic pairing is exactly that. Pingdom watches synthetic scripts, SiteGuardian watches your URLs from the outside. Run Pingdom for the synthetic recorder and SiteGuardian Starter at $19/mo for the URL-side checks.
- Q: Which one is cheaper for one storefront?
  A: SiteGuardian Starter is $19 a month for one site and ten URLs. Pingdom is per-check plus per-pageview RUM, with the dollar total rendered by the Subscription Calculator. Across twelve months of paid use on a single storefront, SiteGuardian Starter at $228 a year is cheaper than the smallest Pingdom bundle.
- Q: Does SiteGuardian monitor SSL expiry like Pingdom?
  A: SiteGuardian ships SSL expiry monitoring on every paid plan, included — no add-on. Pingdom does not ship SSL certificate expiry alerts on Synthetic Monitoring or Real User Monitoring at any tier.
- Q: Does SiteGuardian crawl my site for broken links like Pingdom?
  A: Partially. SiteGuardian does not ship a full site crawler. SiteGuardian does watch the URL list you configured during setup and re-probes it for broken links on the same cadence; if a page begins returning 4xx or 5xx, you get the alert in the same inbox as an outage.
- Q: Can SiteGuardian tell me when my checkout breaks?
  A: Yes. Configure your checkout URL on SiteGuardian and a separate probe runs against it on the same cadence as your uptime checks. Pingdom is a synthetic-recorder product: you record a browser script that walks the cart and replay it on a schedule.
- Q: Can SiteGuardian watch my contact form and report it when it stops sending?
  A: Yes. Add the form URL as a probe or wire a heartbeat monitor, and SiteGuardian pings it on the same cadence as your other URLs. Pingdom requires a recorded script to surface form failures.

## Freshness
- Pricing and features last checked July 2026. Competitor offerings may change.

## Related reads
- /vs/all — every comparison in one matrix.
- /vs/uptime-robot — SiteGuardian vs UptimeRobot.
- /vs/betterstack — SiteGuardian vs Betterstack.
- /vs/sentry — SiteGuardian vs Sentry.
- /blog/why-uptime-only-monitors-miss-the-failures-that-actually-cost-you-revenue — Why uptime-only monitors miss the failures that cost revenue.
- /blog/form-failures-kill-conversions — Form Failures Silently Kill Conversions.
- /broken-link-monitor — Broken link monitor.
- /ssl-expiry-monitor — SSL expiry monitor.
- /checkout-failure-monitoring — Checkout failure monitoring.
- /form-failure-monitoring — Form failure monitoring.
- /online-store-uptime — Online store uptime.
- /pricing — See plans & pricing.
- /audit — Free URL audit.

# Parent cluster: Research → /research