Made and hosted in the European Union
The ridiculous alternative to Datadog Synthetics.
Comparing Phare to Datadog is bonkers. They are a multi-billion dollar decacorn with thousands of employees. Phare is a single guy.
Trusted by 1,000+ teams that ship websites and APIs every day
The seriously unbiased review of Datadog:
“Datadog is amazing if you have infinite money and need complex enterprise features. If you can afford Datadog, Phare is certainly not the right tool for you.”
Nicolas Beauvais, Founder, Phare
Feature comparison between Phare and Datadog
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Phare Start monitoring | |
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| Uptime monitoring | ||
| Website monitoring | Included | Included |
| TCP port monitoring | Included | Included |
| SSL certificate monitoring | Included | Included |
| Multi-region monitoring | > 25 regions | 12 regions |
| Minimum interval | 30 seconds | 30 seconds |
| Incident management | ||
| Automated incident creation | Included | Included |
| Incident collaboration | Included | Included |
| Incident timeline | Included | Included |
| Postmortems | Included | Included |
| Status pages | ||
| Public status pages | Paid plan required | Unlimited |
| Custom domain | Part of the Incident Response package at $30 per seat | Free |
| Incident subscription | Email & Slack | RSS, Atom & Slack |
| Status page carbon rating | B source | A+ source |
| Platform | ||
| Free plan | Restricted | Included |
| Projects | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Team members | Various per-seat pricing | Unlimited |
| Integrations | > 1000 | Discord, Email, Pushover, Slack, SMS, Telegram, Webhooks |
| Privacy | ||
| Ad trackers | 24 source | 0 source |
| Third-party cookies | 20 source | 0 source |
| Start monitoring | ||
Why teams choose Phare over Datadog
Real reasons from real customers who made the switch.
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Transparent pricing
No surprise bills, no hidden fees. Pay only for what you use with clear, upfront pricing. Free plan available to get started.
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No basics behind a paywall
Monitors, incidents, alerts and public status pages are all on the free plan. Only SMS and voice alerts, SSO and private status pages need the paid plan.
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Unlimited team members
Collaborate with your entire team without paying per seat. Invite as many team members as you need at no extra cost.
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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.
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Modern incident management
AI-powered incident analysis, team collaboration tools, and automated postmortem generation. Keep your team coordinated during downtime.
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Independent & European
By supporting Phare, you support a small European business that prioritizes data sovereignty and chooses European providers. 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.”
Adriaan Wind, CTO & Co-Founder, Anny
- Industry
- Software as a Service
- Team size
- 10–50
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Frequently asked questions
You could not find the answer to your question? Ask support.
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Is Phare simpler than Datadog?
You will not need a dedicated full-time team to manage Phare. There’s about three features which is probably about 1% of what Datadog has to offer.
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Does Phare cost less than Datadog?
Absolutely, Datadog is notorious for complex, high-cost usage bills. Phare offers a transparent, usage-based model with a free plan that doesn’t require a credit card.
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Is Phare suitable for enterprise?
Phare is suitable for companies that want simplicity and ownership. If you need 50+ different metrics from server-side APM, Datadog is the standard. If you just need to know when your site goes down, Phare will be a good pick.
Phare would have checked your website once by now.
How many times have you checked it in the last 0 seconds?
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