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Pricing

You're paying for sales commissions.
We're paying for a VPS.

Flat, legible, unscared of comparison. Same check types, same intervals, one-tenth the bill.

Plan
24Observe
Legacy equivalent
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Starter 10 monitors · 5-min interval
Free
$15/mo
Pingdom
$180/yr
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Team POPULAR 100 monitors · 1-min interval
$9 /mo
$100/mo
Pingdom
$1,092/yr
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Scale 1,000 monitors · 1-min interval
$49 /mo
$500+/mo
Datadog
$5,400+/yr
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Self-host unlimited · your hardware
Free forever
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closed source
Priceless
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// competitor prices sampled 2026-04 · sources linked in /docs/pricing-comparison
Every plan includes

No "enterprise tier" to unlock encryption.

Features gated by price are 2015 thinking. Everyone gets the same feature set; you pay for monitor count.

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All 6 check types (HTTP/S, TCP, SSL, ping, port, keyword)
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1-minute minimum interval on paid plans
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Email + webhook alerts (unlimited)
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Public status pages (custom domain)
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Maintenance windows + incident pages
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SSRF-hardened DNS (cannot be weaponised against your VPC)
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OpenAPI 3 spec · typed SDK generation
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Prometheus metrics + Grafana dashboards
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Daily Postgres backups with 7-day retention
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Audit log for every mutation
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BullMQ retries + 7-day DLQ for failed alerts
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Correlation IDs (scheduler → worker → alert)
Questions

What people actually ask on the first call.

Is the pricing this flat, really?
Yes. No "Contact Sales" tier. No per-seat multipliers. No hidden "data egress" line item. The table above is the full menu.
What's the catch?
There isn't one, but the tradeoffs are real: we don't yet offer APM, distributed tracing, or RUM — that's the Datadog lane. If you need those now, we're not the fit yet. If you need uptime/ping/cert/keyword at 1/10 the price, we are.
Why is self-host free forever?
Because the software is MIT licensed. We charge for the hosted version — the convenience of not running Postgres + ClickHouse + Redis + BullMQ + Prometheus + Loki + Grafana yourself. If that's not a problem for you, go run it yourself and keep the money.
Can I upgrade or downgrade anytime?
Yes. Changes prorate to the hour. No annual commits unless you want one (10% off if you do).
Do you offer volume discounts above Scale?
Yes — past 1,000 monitors we'll price based on your actual tick rate. Email billing@24observe.com.

Pick a plan. Or run it yourself.

Either way, docker compose up gets you to first tick in 60 seconds.

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