Pricing
Free during preview. No credit card.
Pingtower is free while it's in preview, and the plan is to keep it free for as long as possible. Paid plans will come one day, because this is a service with real running costs and honest pricing is how it stays alive. When they do, they'll be fair, you'll hear about them well in advance, and it will never be a surprise on your card.
1.0Plans
Three tiers — all of them $0 during preview.
Every new account starts on the free tier, and its limits are real — the same numbers the server enforces, readable any time via GET /v1/tenants/<tid>/plan alongside your live usage. Outgrowing them already? Pro and Enterprise exist today; there's no checkout, just an email — and during preview an upgrade costs exactly nothing.
Every account starts here
Free
$0during preview — no card, ever
- 5 hosted checks, every 5 minutes
- 100 browser-check minutes a month
- 5 projects per tenant
- 1,000 alerts
- 50,000 retained log rows
- Ingest 20 events/s, burst 40
- API 10 req/s, burst 20
For teams outgrowing free
Pro
$0during preview — by request
- 100 hosted checks, as often as every 15 seconds
- 3,000 browser-check minutes a month
- 100 projects per tenant
- 50,000 alerts
- 2,000,000 retained log rows
- Ingest 200 events/s, burst 400
- API 100 req/s, burst 200
For heavy streams
Enterprise
$0during preview — let's talk
- Custom limits, set to fit your stream
- Everything in Pro
- A direct line to the founder
Or pay nobody, ever
Self-host
The server behind pingtower.com ships as a single signed Go binary. On your own box there's no account with us, no plan, and no quota — the limits are whatever your hardware says — and your logs stay on your hardware. That's deliberate: hosted Pingtower has to earn its keep by being convenient, not by locking you in. If pricing ever stops feeling fair, you can walk to your own box and keep alerting.
On every tier
Status pages, incidents and reports
Status pages, incidents, maintenance windows and uptime reports, with no plan limit of their own.
One quota rule
Hitting a cap never silences your pager
Past the log cap the tower stops retaining rows, but every event is still evaluated and alerting continues — a quota can cost you history, never an alert.
2.0When pricing arrives
You'll hear it from me — not from an invoice.
A promise from the founder, in writing: Pingtower stays free for as long as I can keep it that way. It will have paid plans one day, because a pager you depend on shouldn't depend on ad money or a growth story. Here's exactly how that transition will work.
The terms →The deal, in plain text
The terms say the same thing in legal words: nothing is charged before pricing is communicated to you.
How the transition will work
- You'll be notified well before anything costs anything — by email and on this page
- Pricing will be generous: set to cover operating costs and development, not to maximize
- Early users — everyone who signs up during preview — will receive founder pricing
- No card is on file, so nothing can ever be charged silently