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The ethical alternative to Pulsetic

Phare is a great alternative to Pulsetic, with reliable edge uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.

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The seriously unbiased review of Pulsetic:

“Isn’t it funny how the only uptime monitoring tool with etic in its name is the one that practice sockpuppeting?”

Nicolas Beauvais

Founder, Phare

Phare is trusted by 700+ startups, agencies, and SMBs
Feature comparison between Phare and Pulsetic
Phare
pulsetic logo
Uptime monitoring
Website monitoring
TCP port monitoring
SSL certificate monitoring
Multi-region monitoring

12 regions

15 regions (proxied)

Minimum interval

30 seconds

30 seconds with paid plan

Incident management
Automated incident creation
Incident collaboration

-

Incident timeline

-

Postmortems
Status pages
Public status pages

Unlimited

3 free, more in paid plan

Custom domain

Free

Free

Incident subscription

RSS & Atom

Email

Status page carbon rating
Platform
Free plan
Projects

Unlimited

-

Team members

Unlimited

Limited by subscription plan

Integrations

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

> 10

Privacy
Ad trackers
Third-party cookies

Why teams choose Phare over Pulsetic

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.

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.”

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.

But you won't, Phare is a seriously good platform, made with a lot of love.

Phare dashboard showing uptime monitoring performance statistics