# Alternative to Freshping

## The cool alternative to Freshping

While Freshping collects digital dust as abandonware, Phare is accessible, and actively works on making the best uptime monitoring platform.

## The seriously unbiased review of Freshping:

> “Freshping used to be cool, but it seems to be dead now. I should probably delete this page, but someone told me it was good for SEO.”
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> Nicolas Beauvais
> Founder, Phare

* Phare does not make enough money to buy swag hats, so I made this one with MS paint.

Phare is trusted by 700+ startups, agencies, and SMBs

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|  | Phare |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Uptime monitoring | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Website monitoring | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| TCP port monitoring | ✔️ | ❌ |
| SSL certificate monitoring | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Multi-region monitoring | 12 regions | 10 regions |
| Minimum interval | 30 seconds | 30 seconds |
| Incident management | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Automated incident creation | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Incident collaboration | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Incident timeline | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Postmortems | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Status pages | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Public status pages | Unlimited | Separate product (Freshstatus) |
| Custom domain | Free | Free |
| Incident subscription | RSS & Atom | Email |
| Status page carbon rating | [A+<br /><br />source](https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/status-phare-io/) | [A<br /><br />source](https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/status-betterstack-com/) |
| Platform |  |  |
| Free plan | ✔️ | Restricted |
| Projects | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Team members | Unlimited | Limited by subscription plan |
| Integrations | Discord, Email, Pushover, Slack, SMS, Telegram, Webhooks | > 10 |
| Privacy |  |  |
| Ad trackers | [0<br /><br />source](https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=phare.io&device=desktop&location=eu&force=false) | [3<br /><br />source](https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=www.freshworks.com&device=desktop&location=eu&force=false) |
| Third-party cookies | [0<br /><br />source](https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=phare.io&device=desktop&location=eu&force=false) | [0<br /><br />source](https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=www.freshworks.com&device=desktop&location=eu&force=false) |

## Why teams choose Phare over Freshping

### Transparent Pricing

No surprise bills, no hidden fees. Pay only for what you use with clear, upfront pricing. Free plan available to get started.

### No Feature Gating

All features available on the free plan. No need to upgrade just to unlock basic functionality like 30-second intervals or status pages.

### Unlimited Team Members

Collaborate with your entire team without paying per seat. Invite as many team members as you need at no extra cost.

### Better Support

Get help directly from the founder who built the product. No ticket queues, no automated responses, just real help from someone who cares.

### Modern Incident Management

AI-powered incident analysis, team collaboration tools, and automated postmortem generation. Keep your team coordinated during downtime.

### Privacy-Focused

European-based, GDPR-compliant, zero tracking. Your data stays yours. No selling to big tech, no marketing trackers.

> “Phare provides a nice and clean UI, actually the best that I have seen for a monitoring tool so far. But you got many more features, like a status page with custom domain, own alert rules and alerting from different regions.”
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> Adriaan Wind
> CTO & Co-Founder, Anny
  
## Compare Phare Uptime with other monitoring tools

Most of them are great, some arguably better than Phare, but when it comes to vibe they all fall short.

## Set up in 2 minutes, never look back.

Use every feature for free. Invite your whole squad. No credit card, no surprise charges, no clingy follow-up emails if you leave. Phare is a genuinely great platform, thoughtfully built with a lot of love.