SolidPing vs Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io is the best cron monitor there is, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. It is BSD-licensed, self-hostable, purpose-built, and it has been doing one job extremely well since 2015: telling you when a scheduled job didn't run.
The comparison is unusual twice over. First, the two tools mostly do different things: Healthchecks is passive — your jobs ping it, and silence is the alert. SolidPing is primarily active — it goes out and checks your services — and also happens to support heartbeat checks.
Second, both products exist in both shapes. Healthchecks self-hosts under BSD with full feature parity, and sells a hosted service; so do we. So this page compares the two self-hosted builds first, then puts the two hosted plans side by side, because mixing them is how comparison pages start lying.
If we've gotten a detail about Healthchecks.io wrong, please open an issue — we want this accurate.
Self-hosted, side by side
| SolidPing (self-hosted) | Healthchecks (self-hosted) | |
|---|---|---|
| License | AGPL-3.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cost | Free — unlimited monitors, check rate, workers and status-page domains; 30 members by default | Free — no feature restrictions |
| Stack | Single Go binary, SQLite or PostgreSQL | Django / Python, PostgreSQL required |
| Model | Active checks and heartbeats | Passive heartbeats only |
| Check types | 40 active + heartbeat | Cron / heartbeat |
| Cron expression support | Heartbeat with expected period | Full cron schedules with timezones and grace periods |
| Active checks (HTTP, TCP, DNS, databases…) | Yes | Not the product |
| Multi-region checks | Distributed workers you run anywhere | Not applicable |
| On-call & escalation | Rotation schedules, overrides, iCal, multi-step escalation | Integrates with external on-call tools |
| Status pages | Public pages, sections, custom domains, subscribers | Public status badges |
| Notification channels | 16, including SMS, voice and WhatsApp through your own Twilio account | Extensive integration list; SMS via your own provider |
Hosted, side by side
| SolidPing Cloud | Healthchecks.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 100 monitors, 10 checks/min, 5 seats, on-call included | 20 checks, 100 pings/check/day |
| Entry paid | €5/mo — 1,000 monitors, 10 seats | $5/mo Hobbyist — 20 checks, 3 members |
| Next steps | €15/mo — 2,000 monitors, 50 seats · €45/mo — 5,000, 250 seats | $20/mo Business — 100 checks, 10 members · $80/mo — 1,000 checks |
| Log retention | Included | 1 year on paid plans |
| SMS / voice | Not included on any plan | Not a headline feature either |
| What you are buying | Active monitoring of 40 protocols, plus heartbeats | The best cron monitoring available, and nothing else |
Prices last checked July 2026.
Where SolidPing is the stronger choice
You need active checking at all. This is the whole difference. Healthchecks knows your backup script finished; it cannot tell you your website is down, your certificate expires on Friday, your Postgres replica has fallen behind or your Kafka broker is unreachable. SolidPing covers 40 such check types.
One tool instead of two. Many teams run Healthchecks and an uptime monitor, with two dashboards, two alerting configurations and two things to upgrade. SolidPing does heartbeats too, so it can be one.
On-call is built in. Healthchecks alerts and integrates with on-call tools; SolidPing ships rotations, overrides and multi-step escalation itself.
Status pages for customers. Healthchecks gives you status badges. SolidPing gives you branded status pages on your own domain, with sections, subscribers and incident updates.
SQLite is an option. Healthchecks requires PostgreSQL; SolidPing will run off a single file on a small box, and move to Postgres when you need it to.
Where Healthchecks.io is the stronger choice
Cron scheduling is deeper, and it is not close. Real cron expressions, timezone handling, and grace periods per check. SolidPing's heartbeat model expects a period; it does not understand "every weekday at 03:15 Europe/Paris" the way Healthchecks does. If your job schedule is genuinely cron-shaped, that difference is felt daily.
BSD licensing. More permissive than AGPL, and simpler for anyone who wants to modify and redistribute without obligations.
It is smaller and older at one job. Ten years of doing cron monitoring means the edge cases — the job that runs twice, the job that runs late, the machine whose clock drifts — are handled.
Cheaper at small scale for cron alone. If all you need is 20 cron checks, the free tier is free and adding a whole monitoring platform is overkill.
The other model, on both sides
Uniquely on these pages, both tools give you the same choice, and both are honest about it: Healthchecks self-hosted has full feature parity with their paid SaaS, and SolidPing self-hosted is likewise the same binary we host — with the caps removed, and with SMS, voice and WhatsApp working through your own Twilio account, which our hosted plans do not include. In both cases the hosted plan buys you somebody else holding the pager for the monitoring itself. That is the entire trade, on both sides of the table.
Running both is a perfectly good answer
We would rather say this than oversell. If Healthchecks already watches your cron jobs and you are happy with it, keep it — and use SolidPing for the active side: HTTP, certificates, databases, queues, multi-region confirmation and on-call. Consolidating onto one tool is worth doing when the second dashboard starts costing you more than it saves, not before.
Which should you pick?
Healthchecks.io if your problem is scheduled jobs and nothing else, especially if your schedules are true cron expressions with timezones.
SolidPing if you need active monitoring as well, and would like your heartbeats, uptime checks, status page and on-call rotation in one place.