Pricing last verified: April 2026. Plans and pricing may change — check the vendor site for current details.
Pricing Overview
Checkly is a monitoring-as-code platform that uses a freemium pricing model. The free Hobby tier gives individuals a functional starting point with 10 uptime monitors, 1K browser checks per month, and 10K API checks per month. Paid plans start at $24/month with the Starter tier and scale up through Team ($64/month) and custom Enterprise pricing. All plans are billed monthly, and Checkly offers a 30% discount for startups as well as a 30% discount for nonprofits, making entry-level paid plans more accessible for qualifying organizations.
Plan Comparison
| Plan | Price | Monitors | Browser Checks | API Checks | Users | Key Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | 10 | 1K/mo | 10K/mo | 1 | Basic uptime and API monitoring |
| Starter | $24/mo | 50 | 3K/mo | 25K/mo | 3 | 1-min check frequency |
| Team | $64/mo | 75 | 12K/mo | 100K/mo | 10 | 30-sec frequency, private locations, visual regression |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | 1-sec frequency, SAML/SSO, 180-day raw data retention |
The Starter plan is the entry point for small teams that need more than 10 monitors and tighter check intervals. The Team plan at $64/month is where Checkly unlocks its strongest capabilities: 30-second check frequency, private locations for internal service monitoring, and visual regression testing. The jump from Starter to Team is significant — you pay $40 more per month but get substantially more browser checks (3K to 12K) and 7 additional user seats.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
Checkly charges for overages through add-ons. Additional monitors cost $8 per 25 monitors, and extra browser check runs cost $4 per 1,000 runs. These add-ons can increase costs meaningfully if your monitoring footprint grows beyond the plan limits. There is no published annual billing discount on the standard plans, and the Enterprise tier requires contacting sales, which means the final price is negotiable but not transparent upfront.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
Solo developer: The Hobby plan (free) covers basic needs. If you need more than 10 monitors, the Starter plan at $24/month is the next step.
Small team (5 users): The Team plan at $64/month supports up to 10 users and provides 75 monitors. If you need 100 monitors, add one monitor pack at $8, bringing the total to $72/month.
Mid-size team (20 users): Enterprise pricing is required since Team caps at 10 users. Expect custom pricing above $64/month, plus potential add-on costs for higher check volumes.
How Checkly Pricing Compares
Checkly's Starter plan at $24/month is competitive against alternatives in the monitoring space. Datadog starts at $0.75 per host per month with a usage-based model that can scale unpredictably. Better Stack offers uptime monitoring from $29/month, placing it $5 above Checkly's Starter tier for comparable functionality. Sentry's Team plan starts at $26/month, though Sentry focuses more on error tracking than synthetic monitoring. Checkly's free Hobby tier is more feature-rich than Datadog's free tier for synthetic monitoring specifically, and its monitoring-as-code approach differentiates it from traditional dashboard-driven tools.