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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.

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Trusted by 1,000+ teams that ship websites and APIs every day

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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.”

Nicolas Beauvais, Founder, Phare

Feature comparison between Phare and Freshping

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Uptime monitoring
Website monitoring Included Included
TCP port monitoring Included Included
SSL certificate monitoring Included Included
Multi-region monitoring 10 regions 12 regions
Minimum interval 30 seconds 30 seconds
Incident management
Automated incident creation Not included Included
Incident collaboration Not included Included
Incident timeline Not included Included
Postmortems Not included Included
Status pages
Public status pages Separate product (Freshstatus) Unlimited
Custom domain Free Free
Incident subscription Email RSS, Atom & Slack
Status page carbon rating C source A+ source
Platform
Free plan Restricted Included
Projects Unlimited Unlimited
Team members Limited by subscription plan Unlimited
Integrations > 10 Discord, Email, Pushover, Slack, SMS, Telegram, Webhooks
Privacy
Ad trackers 3 source 0 source
Third-party cookies 0 source 0 source
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Why teams choose Phare over Freshping

Real reasons from real customers who made the switch.

Anny
“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.

  • Is Phare a good replacement for Freshping?

    Absolutely, Phare offers everything you need to monitor your website, alert you when it goes down, and communicate with your users with a sleek status page.

  • Does Phare support the same monitoring types as Freshping?

    Phare covers HTTP and HTTPS uptime monitoring, TCP port checks, ICMP ping monitoring, SSL certificate monitoring, multi-region checks, and more. You also get incident management and status pages baked in, rather than needing a separate product.

  • Can I get 30-second monitoring intervals on Phare’s free plan?

    Yes, unlike Freshping which locked shorter intervals behind paid tiers. Phare gives you 30-second monitoring intervals on the free plan, no upgrade required.

  • Does Phare have a free plan?

    A genuinely generous one, free forever, no credit card required, unlimited team members, and all the core features unlocked. Not a time-limited trial, not a feature-crippled demo.

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