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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.

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The seriously unbiased review of Datadog Synthetics:

“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

Phare is trusted by 900+ startups, agencies, and SMBs
Feature comparison between Phare and Datadog Synthetics
Phare
datadog logo
Uptime monitoring
Website monitoring
TCP port monitoring
SSL certificate monitoring
Multi-region monitoring

12 regions

> 25 regions

Minimum interval

30 seconds

30 seconds

Incident management
Automated incident creation
Incident collaboration
Incident timeline
Postmortems
Status pages
Public status pages

Unlimited

Paid plan required

Custom domain

Free

Part of the Incident Response package at $30 per seat

Incident subscription

RSS, Atom & Slack

Email & Slack

Status page carbon rating
Platform
Free plan

Restricted

Projects

Unlimited

Unlimited

Team members

Unlimited

Various per-seat pricing

Integrations

Discord, Email, Pushover, Slack, SMS, Telegram, Webhooks

> 1000

Privacy
Ad trackers
Third-party cookies

Why teams choose Phare over Datadog Synthetics

Real reasons from real customers who made the switch

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.

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 Services

Team size: 10-50

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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.

Phare dashboard showing uptime monitoring performance statistics