IsDown vs Axiom Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Pro
- 30 Monitors
- 2 Boards
- 2 Status Pages
- 500 Subscribers
- 2 Admin Users
- All Notification Channels
- Basic Integrations
- 6 months of data
Premium
Popular- 70 Monitors
- 5 Boards
- 5 Status Pages
- 1,000 Subscribers
- 5 Admin Users
- All Notification Channels
- Most Integrations
- 12 months of data
- Admin SSO
- Authenticated Status Pages
Business
- 150 Monitors
- ∞ Boards
- ∞ Status Pages
- 2,000 Subscribers
- 15 Admin Users
- All Notification Channels
- All Integrations
- 24 months of data
- Admin SSO
- Authenticated Status Pages
- API Access
- MCP Server (New)
Enterprise
- More Monitors
- More Boards
- More Status Pages
- More Subscribers
- More Admin Users
- All Notification Channels
- All Integrations + Custom
- More historical data
- Admin SSO
- Authenticated Status Pages
- API Access
- MCP Server
- Custom Enterprise Agreement
- Dedicated Account Manager
Axiom Cloud
- Always Free allowance (1 TB / 100 GB-hrs / 100 GB) included
- Automatic volume discounts on usage beyond the allowance
- Configurable retention
- Self-serve enterprise add-ons (SSO, RBAC, Directory Sync, Audit Logs)
- Compute credit pre-purchase for deeper discounts
- All integrations
- Email support (paid SLA + dedicated available)
Personal
- 500 GB/mo data loading
- 10 GB-hours query compute
- 25 GB storage
- 30-day retention
- Full APL access
- All integrations
- Community support
IsDown vs Axiom FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Axiom is the cheaper option, starting at $25/mo vs $49/mo for IsDown.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Axiom has a free plan. IsDown doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. IsDown uses hybrid pricing, while Axiom goes with usage-based. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. IsDown: At $49-$179/mo before enterprise, IsDown sits mid-market — pricier than bare-bones uptime checkers but nowhere near what enterprise incident management platforms charge. They're clearly chasing growing teams and agencies who've outgrown a free monitor tool but don't need a full incident command center yet. Axiom: They're positioning as a cost-efficient alternative to Datadog and Splunk — usage-based with no seat tax is a deliberate shot at log management incumbents that charge per user on top of ingestion. They're going after cost-conscious engineering teams burned by unpredictable observability bills.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for IsDown and Axiom and let you know when something moves.