What happened to Freshping
Freshworks shut Freshping down. Free accounts were disabled on 6 March 2026, paid subscriptions were not renewed after that date, and monitoring data was permanently deleted 90 days later. Freshworks did not name a successor product; its own deprecation FAQ says only that customers should explore other monitoring services (support.freshping.io, read 2 September 2026).
So if you are here looking for a Freshping alternative, this is a migration, not a comparison. Below are five tools that cover what Freshping did, with what each one gives away free and what the first paid plan costs.
Freshping alternatives compared: five tools
Freshping's appeal was a genuinely generous free tier: 50 checks at 1-minute intervals with a status page, at no cost. That combination is rare now, so the honest answer is that no single tool replaces it exactly. These five come closest, from different directions.
| Tool | Free plan | Cheapest paid plan | Status page on the free plan | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UptimeRobot | 50 monitors, 5-minute checks | €10/month (Solo) | Yes, one basic page | The closest like-for-like swap |
| Better Stack | 10 monitors and heartbeats | $34/month per responder seat | Yes, one page | Teams that also want on-call and incident management |
| StatusCake | 10 uptime monitors, 5-minute checks | $24.49/month (Superior) | Not listed on the free plan | Domain and SSL expiry alongside uptime |
| openstatus | 1 monitor, 10-minute checks | $30/month (Starter) | Yes, one page with 3 components | Teams who want to read the code or self-host it |
| LoadFocus | 10,000 API checks/month, 5-minute, 25+ locations | $19/month (Starter) | Yes, one page | Uptime plus load testing and page speed in one account |
Figures from each vendor's public pricing page (uptimerobot.com, betterstack.com, statuscake.com, openstatus.dev, loadfocus.com) on 2 September 2026, monthly billing. Annual billing is cheaper on most of them. Limits change often, so check the vendor page before you commit.
UptimeRobot
The nearest thing to a drop-in replacement. The free plan carries 50 monitors, which matches Freshping's headline number, though checks run every 5 minutes rather than every minute and the free status page has no custom domain. Solo at €10/month adds 60-second checks and three status pages on your own domain. Monitoring is ping and keyword level, so it answers "is it up" rather than "is the response correct".
Better Stack
Aimed higher than Freshping was: uptime monitoring, on-call scheduling, incident management and status pages in one product. The free plan is smaller at 10 monitors, and the paid model is per responder seat at $34/month, so cost scales with the size of your on-call rota rather than your check count. Worth it if you were pairing Freshping with a separate paging tool.
StatusCake
Free gives 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute intervals, plus one page speed, one domain and one SSL monitor, which is a useful mix if certificate and domain expiry were on your list. Superior at $24.49/month raises that to 100 monitors at 1-minute checks. The pricing page does not list a status page on the free tier, so treat status pages as a paid feature there.
openstatus
Open source under AGPL-3.0, which means you can host it yourself and pay nothing indefinitely, at the cost of running it. The hosted free tier is deliberately small: 1 monitor, 10-minute checks, one page with three components. Starter is $30/month for 20 monitors and a custom domain, with extra status pages at $20/month each.
LoadFocus
The free plan covers 10,000 API checks a month at 5-minute frequency from 25+ locations, with a public status page driven by those checks. Starter at $19/month moves you to 1-minute frequency and 25,000 checks. The difference from the others is scope: the same account also runs load tests and page speed monitoring, so capacity and performance testing do not need a second subscription.
What to check before you pick one
- Check frequency on the plan you will actually pay for. Most free tiers moved to 5 minutes. Freshping's 1-minute free checks were unusually generous, and matching them costs money almost everywhere now.
- Whether the status page is included or extra. Several vendors give you a status page free but charge separately for a custom domain, and some charge per additional page.
- What "monitor" means. A ping check and an assertion-based API check are priced the same on some plans and very differently on others.
- Where checks run from. A single-region checker will report outages that only exist for it, and miss ones your users see.
When LoadFocus is the right replacement
You want the status page driven by the monitoring
Components map to your checks, so live status and 90-day uptime come from real results rather than manual edits. Freshping bundled monitoring and a status page in one product, and this keeps that shape.
You also need load testing
Uptime checks confirm a URL responds. They say nothing about what happens under traffic. Cloud load testing and JMeter testing run from the same account, with native .jmx and k6 script support.
You need page speed monitoring with Core Web Vitals
Freshping did not measure Lighthouse scores. Page speed monitoring tracks Core Web Vitals against budgets with regression alerts and trend graphs.
You need more than an uptime ping
API monitoring validates response bodies and timing thresholds, not just that something answered, and alerts through email, Slack, Teams and webhooks.
Migrating off Freshping
Freshping deleted its data 90 days after shutdown, so there is nothing left to export. Rebuild from your own list of URLs: create a check for each endpoint you were watching, set the frequency and locations, add assertions where a plain uptime ping was hiding a problem, then recreate your status page components and point your status. subdomain at the new host. The Status Pages guide covers the DNS records and certificate.
FAQ: replacing Freshping
Is Freshping still available?
No. Free accounts were disabled on 6 March 2026, paid plans were not renewed after that, and stored monitoring data was deleted 90 days later. Freshworks has not released a replacement.
What is the closest free replacement for Freshping?
UptimeRobot, on monitor count: its free plan carries 50 monitors, the same headline number Freshping offered. The trade-off is 5-minute checks instead of 1-minute, and no custom domain on the free status page.
Can I recover my Freshping monitoring history?
No. Freshworks deleted stored data 90 days after the March 2026 shutdown, so historical uptime cannot be exported or restored. Any new tool starts from zero history.
Does LoadFocus have status pages?
Yes. Every plan including the free tier includes a public status page, with components driven by your monitors, incidents and scheduled maintenance, email subscribers, and a custom domain with automatic HTTPS on paid plans. It also serves the Statuspage-compatible JSON API, so existing dashboards and bots keep working.
How does LoadFocus pricing compare with Freshping's?
Freshping's free tier was more generous on raw check frequency. LoadFocus is free to start with 10,000 API checks a month at 5-minute frequency, and Starter is $19/month for 1-minute checks and 25,000 checks, which also covers load testing and page speed monitoring in the same plan.
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