Made and hosted in the
European Union
Never applied to
Combinator
Average rating
4.8
Product of the day
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Phare Uptime
Keep your website up and running, empower your team with efficient incident management and keep your users informed during hard times.
Keep a vigilant eye on your website's performance, 24/7. Phare make sure you're the first to know if something goes wrong.
Encourage team collaboration during hard times, streamline your incident response and minimize downtime.
Stay transparent with your users, report incidents and maintenance periods on your own customizable status page.
“Phare makes me feel more professional in how I communicate Vemetric’s service health. Multi-region monitoring, SMS alerts, smooth incident management, and a clean status page help me keep customers informed.”
Dominik Sumer
Founder, Vemetric
Industry: Web & Product Analytics
Team size: 1
Phare Platform
Imagine a life without the hassle of switching between multiple tools, subscriptions and credentials. That's the Phare enlightenment.
Invite an unlimited amount of pals in an unlimited amount of projects, or fly solo. It’s your safe space, no judgements.
Phare is mature enough to sync with all your favorite tools, because a thriving tool polycule needs solid communication.
Simple and boring unified billing process, no hidden fees, no strings attached, never a single surprise.
“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.”
Adriaan Wind
CTO & Co-Founder, Anny
Industry: Software as a Services
Team size: 10-50
Phare takes pride in being a forward-thinking company, without any care for the status quo.
900+ companies
Join businesses of all sizes and industry who run brilliant websites on Phare.
Proudly european
Phare's hosting provider is incorporated in Germany, CDN in Slovenia, phone infrastructure in the Netherlands and email infrastructure in France. No big tech, no marketing trackers.
A+ carbon rating
Incredibly fast load times on every page with minimal download size, all running on 100% hydraulic energy Guarantee of Origin (GO). Phare also contribute 2% of revenue to carbon removal.
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Yes, the Hobby plan is free forever, no credit card required. You get unlimited team members, unlimited projects, and all the core features. No artificial caps designed to pressure you into upgrading. Pay more only when you genuinely need more quota.
Phare is a European company running on European infrastructure that is managed by European companies, not a US-based megacorp. Your data stays in Europe and is never sold to third parties. The website itself runs zero ad trackers and zero third-party cookies. Your personal data is never sent to a third-party customer management system. The newsletter is opt-in, no dark patterns.
You get direct access to the founder who built the product. Most questions get a same-day answer, and bugs are typically fixed a few hours after they're reported. If you are looking for formal 24/7 support with an account manager, there's plenty of other better suited vendors with a 5-digit price tag.
Phare has been online since September 2022. The revenues, expenses, and growth metrics are publicly disclosed at phare.io/open. It's fully bootstrapped, independently run, and not funded by venture capital. The goal is to build a product good enough to pay for itself, not to grow fast, extract money from users, and exit.
Phare is a real bootstrapped business registered in Europe, paying taxes in Europe, and deliberately choosing European providers for hosting, infrastructure, and services, that all pay their taxes in Europe. No revenue will be used to lobby your local government into a technocracy or into the development of a bunker complex in Hawaii. When you subscribe, you're funding the development of the product directly.
They all came for a free uptime monitoring tool, they stayed for the superior platform, and the vibe.
Amazing uptime management! Works automatically and notifies me via email.
Phare can be described simply in two words: Absolutely amazing.
Phare offers a nice status page that is incredibly easy to use. It’s free to play, no credit card required. Incident management has internal and external communication.
It has all the important features and its UI is just lovely!
It’s a great product, I was able to participate in the beta and it’s really a great project, I’m very happy that we have a solution like that in Europe. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
Nice UI, clear UX, custom domain, custom status page. I sign up and 5 minutes later I get : - 2FA secure auth - A nice status page on my own domain - Telegram & email alert working The product is simple and powerful, I love it. Bravo !
I think Phare has a very clean and to the point interface and feature list. I use for my personal projects right now but I am considering it for work related things as well.
I simply love it. The UI is very clean and clear. You only pay what you use. That is for every request that is made. You can even adjust the frequency for each monitor individually. However, for me the best feature is the well-documented API that makes it possible to embed phare.io into your existing infrastructure in no-time.
Super slick. Ridiculously simple to setup. Took me a minute to figure out where the badge was but otherwise this was setup in a blink of an eye.
Checked many, many competitors, and Phare is fairly the best option to go with!
We’ve been using Phare for months now, and the dev is actively working on improving the system! He responds to messages and even reached out to us when we didn’t know there was a problem. We’ve used lots of systems and by far this takes the cake and works perfect for what we need.
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.
Insights and stories of building a company from scratch, written by a real human being just like you.
How Phare replaced PostHog with Vemetric and Bunny.net Edge Scripts to get lightweight product analytics, keep all data in Europe, and focus on organization-level metrics.
How Phare implements calendar-month metered billing on Paddle using zero-value subscriptions, one-time charges, and a homemade invoice grace period.
Phare joins Bunny.net’s Hopstart program and places 1st in the first cohort. Learn how Bunny.net helps power fast status pages, edge uptime monitoring, TLS management, and DDoS protection for Phare.
