Healthchecks vs Pingflare

Comparing two open source alternatives to Pingdom and UptimeRobot . Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Healthchecks

BSD-3-Clause license

Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django

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Pingflare

MIT

Uptime monitoring system built to run natively within Cloudflare.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Healthchecks	Pingflare
License	BSD-3-Clause license	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	10,065	19
Forks	969	3
Open Issues	55	—
Last Commit	May 26, 2026	Dec 26, 2025
First Released	Jun 25, 2015	Nov 18, 2025
Categories	Monitoring & Observability Tools	Monitoring & Observability Tools
Tags	#devops #cron #monitoring	#monitoring #uptime monitor

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