Bugsnag vs Pingdom Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Free
- 1 user
- Error and performance monitoring
- 7.5K events and 1M spans per month
- 50+ platforms
- 30+ third-party integrations
Select
- Unlimited users
- End-to-end diagnostics
- Basic notifications
Preferred
Popular- Automatic error prioritization
- Stability benchmarks
- Advanced segmentation
- Custom notifications
- SAML single sign-on
- System Metrics (CPU, Memory, Rendering)
Enterprise
- Automatic error assignment
- Premium support
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Automatic user provisioning via SSO
- Feature flags & experiments
- On premises or SaaS deployment
- Sensitive data management
Synthetic Monitoring
- Transaction monitoring
- Page speed monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- Email and SMS alerting
- Maintenance windows
- Public status pages and reports
- Unlimited users
Real User Monitoring
- Unlimited number of sites
- Unlimited users
- Shareable reports
- Performance filtering
- 13-month data retention
Enterprise
Bugsnag vs Pingdom FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Pingdom is the cheaper option, starting at $16/mo vs $20/mo for Bugsnag.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Bugsnag has a free plan. Pingdom doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a usage-based model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Bugsnag: At $20–$33/mo starting, Bugsnag is positioning as accessible and dev-friendly — cheaper entry than Sentry's team plans and well below Datadog's error tracking add-on costs. They're clearly going after mid-market product teams who want focused error monitoring without paying for a full observability platform. Pingdom: At $16.5/mo per module, Pingdom sits in the mid-range — cheaper than Datadog's full observability stack but pricier than bare-bones uptime tools like Better Uptime or UptimeRobot. They're clearly targeting teams that want more than a ping checker but aren't ready to commit to a full APM platform.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Bugsnag and Pingdom and let you know when something moves.