Flat pricing, bundled status pages, 50 free monitors
The Best Checkly Alternative for Uptime Monitoring
Looking for a Checkly alternative? DevHelm gives you 50 free monitors with commercial use, bundled custom-domain status pages, and flat pricing with no per-run metering — while Checkly bills Detect, Communicate, and Resolve as separate modules.
Switch to DevHelm if you monitor HTTP/API endpoints and want flat pricing with status pages included.
Stay with Checkly if Playwright browser checks and visual regression are core to your reliability workflow.
Last verified July 5, 2026
Why People Leave Checkly
The recurring pain points that drive teams to look for an alternative.
Three products on one bill
Checkly sells monitoring (Detect), status pages (Communicate), and AI root cause analysis (Resolve) as independent modules with separate tier ladders. A team wanting all three at Starter pays $45/mo ($24 Detect + $9 Communicate + $12 Resolve) before any overages. DevHelm bundles uptime monitoring and status pages from the Free tier.
Source: Checkly pricing — Detect, Communicate, Resolve modulesCustom-domain status pages cost extra
Checkly Communicate is a separate subscription. Custom domains and branded CSS require Communicate Team at $30/mo on top of your Detect plan — Hobby and Communicate Starter do not include custom domains. DevHelm includes a custom-domain status page on the Free tier (50 monitors, 5-minute checks).
Source: Checkly pricing — Communicate status page tiersSynthetic check runs are metered with overages
Beyond uptime monitors (billed per monitor count), Checkly meters API and Playwright runs separately. Team includes 100k API runs and 12k browser runs per month; exceeding the pool triggers overages at $2.50–$6.50 per 1k runs depending on check type. High-frequency API checks or active Playwright suites can spike bills unpredictably. DevHelm uses flat tiers with no per-run charges.
Source: Checkly pricing — synthetic overage rates22 probe locations locked behind Team ($64/mo)
Checkly Hobby and Starter Detect tiers are limited to 6 public locations. All 22 locations require Detect Team at $64/mo. DevHelm unlocks all 4 probe regions on Pro at $29/mo, with 2 regions on Free and 3 on Starter.
Source: Checkly pricing — location tiers by planOnly 10 free uptime monitors
Checkly Hobby includes 10 uptime monitors at 2-minute intervals and hard-caps synthetic runs (1k browser, 10k API per month). DevHelm Free offers 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals with commercial use allowed, webhooks, CLI, Terraform, and a custom-domain status page.
Source: Checkly pricing — Hobby plan limitsWhen Checkly Is the Right Call
Not every team needs to switch. Stay with Checkly if:
- Playwright browser checks and Check Suites are core to your reliability workflow — DevHelm does not offer browser synthetics.
- You rely on multistep API workflows, visual regression testing, or Agentic Checks that only Checkly's synthetic stack provides.
- Your team has already invested in Checkly constructs (TypeScript monitoring-as-code) and the Checkly CLI deploy pipeline — migration cost is real.
DevHelm vs Checkly at a Glance
What DevHelm Looks Like
The live monitor list, rendered with the same components as the production dashboard.
What You Actually Pay
A real-world setup, priced on both platforms.
Real-world cost comparison
Save $42/mo — 78% less50 monitors, 1-minute checks, Slack + webhook alerts, custom-domain status page
DevHelm
$12/mo
DevHelm Starter — 75 monitors, 1-min checks, Slack + webhooks, custom-domain status page included
Checkly
$54/mo
Checkly Detect Starter ($24/mo) + Communicate Team ($30/mo for custom domain). Communicate Starter ($9/mo) does not include custom domains.
Pricing, Side by Side
Checkly Detect pricing shown below (annual billing). Status pages (Communicate) and AI RCA (Resolve) are additional.
DevHelm
- Free$0/mo
50 monitors · 5-min checks · custom-domain status page · CLI + Terraform + MCP
- Starter$12/mo
75 monitors · 1-min checks · 3 seats · Slack + Discord alerts
- Pro$29/mo
250 monitors · 30-sec checks · all regions · 2 branded status pages · 10 seats
- Team$79/mo
500 monitors · 25 seats · 5 status pages · audit log · all alert channels
Checkly
- Hobby (Free)$0/mo
10 uptime monitors · 2-min checks · 1k browser runs · 6 locations · 1 user
- Starter$24/mo
50 monitors · 1-min checks · 3k browser + 25k API runs · 3 users
- Team$64/mo
75 monitors · 30-sec checks · 12k browser + 100k API runs · 22 locations · 10 users
- EnterpriseCustom
Custom monitors · 1-sec checks · private locations · 180-day retention
Pricing as of July 5, 2026.
Stack replacement
Two products folded into one
DevHelm
- 250 monitors at 30-second checks across all regions
- 2 branded status pages with custom domain
- PagerDuty + OpsGenie + Slack + email + webhook alerts
- CLI + Terraform + Python SDK + JS SDK + MCP server
- Dependency intelligence across 80+ vendor services
Same 30-sec uptime checks and custom-domain status page — one product, one flat bill.
Switching from Checkly
There is no one-click importer from Checkly. Export uptime monitors via their API, recreate them as DevHelm YAML or Terraform, and run both tools in parallel. Many teams keep Playwright browser checks in Checkly.
Export your Checkly uptime monitors
Use the Checkly REST API to export uptime monitor configurations as JSON.
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer $CHECKLY_API_KEY' https://api.checklyhq.com/v1/checks > checks.json
Recreate monitors in DevHelm
Map Checkly uptime monitors onto DevHelm HTTP/DNS/TCP/ICMP monitors in YAML or Terraform. URL, interval, and assertions translate directly; alert channels are set up separately.
devhelm validate -f devhelm.yml
Decide what stays in Checkly
Many teams keep Playwright browser checks and Check Suites in Checkly while moving uptime monitoring to DevHelm. You can run both in parallel as long as you want.
Deploy and add status pages
Deploy monitors with the CLI, then add a DevHelm status page (included on Free) and vendor dependency tracking for your key providers.
devhelm plan -f devhelm.yml && devhelm deploy -f devhelm.yml --yes
Full Feature Comparison
Every capability, side by side.
Pricing & Billing
| Feature | DevHelm | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Flat per-tier | Per check run (metered) |
| Overage charges | ||
| Status pages included | Yes — all tiers | No — Communicate is separate ($9+/mo) |
| Free monitors included | 50 | 10 |
| 30-sec checks available from | $29/mo (Pro) | $64/mo (Team) |
Monitoring Capabilities
| Feature | DevHelm | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP / HTTPS checks | ||
| DNS / TCP / ICMP / Heartbeat | ||
| MCP Server monitoring | ||
| Browser checks (Playwright) | ||
| Visual regression testing | ||
| Multi-step API workflows |
Developer Surface
| Feature | DevHelm | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| First-party CLI | ||
| Terraform provider | ||
| Pulumi provider | ||
| Python SDK | ||
| JS/TS SDK (API client) | ||
| Official MCP server | ||
| GitHub Action |
Alerting
| Feature | DevHelm | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| Email / Slack / Discord / Webhook | ||
| PagerDuty / OpsGenie | ||
| SMS alerts | Soon | Starter+ (100/mo) |
| Phone call alerts | Soon | Team+ (200/mo) |
| Notification policy escalation chains |
Status Pages & Intelligence
| Feature | DevHelm | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| Custom-domain status page on Free | ||
| Branded status page with custom CSS | Pro ($29/mo) | Communicate Team ($30/mo extra) |
| Dependency intelligence (vendor correlation) | ||
| AI root cause analysis | Resolve ($12–$39/mo extra) |