--- title: "Healthchecks.io Pricing (2026): Where Free Wins, Where It Doesn't | FourSight" description: "Healthchecks.io: free for 20 checks, Business $20/mo for 100, Business Plus $80/mo (as published July 2026 — verify with the vendor). The best free cron tier in the category — but cron-only. FourSight prices the whole surface at $16–40/mo flat. Honest math inside." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "How much does Healthchecks.io cost?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "As published July 2026 (verify with the vendor): free for 20 checks and 3 team members, Business at $20/mo for 100 checks and 10 members, Business Plus at $80/mo with higher limits. 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What no tier includes is active monitoring: uptime probes, SSL expiry, DNS checks, or a public status page. That second tool is where the real comparison starts. One bill for cron + uptime Status pages included 4-region quorum on active checks [See FourSight Pricing](/pricing) [Compare Scenarios](#price-scenarios) Looking for the feature-by-feature comparison instead? See [FourSight vs Healthchecks.io](/compare/healthchecks-alternative). The pricing model ## How Healthchecks.io prices Healthchecks.io keeps pricing simple: a free Hobbyist plan with 20 checks and 3 team members, Business at $20/mo with 100 checks and 10 members, and Business Plus at $80/mo with higher limits (as published July 2026 — verify with the vendor). It's also open source — self-hosting is free if you run the infrastructure yourself. There's a Supporter tier for people who simply want to fund the project, which tells you something good about how it's run. The boundary isn't price — it's scope. Healthchecks.io is deliberately passive: it listens for pings and alerts when they stop. It cannot probe a URL, watch an SSL certificate, detect DNS drift, or host a customer-facing status page. Production teams pair it with an active uptime tool, so the real monthly cost is Healthchecks.io plus that second product. FourSight prices both halves as one product: Starter $16/mo covers 50 active uptime monitors; Growth $40/mo adds heartbeat/cron monitors (5-field cron expressions, grace periods) alongside 100 monitors across all 8 check types, escalation policies, and 5 status pages. Price math, July 2026 ## The same shopping list, priced both ways Scenario FourSight Healthchecks.io Up to 20 cron checks, $0 budget No free heartbeats Heartbeats unlock on Growth ($40/mo). For free cron-only monitoring, Healthchecks.io is simply the right answer. Free — Hobbyist plan 20 checks, 3 team members. The category's most generous free heartbeat tier (July 2026). 100 cron checks Growth — $40/mo Heartbeats plus 100 uptime/SSL/DNS monitors, escalations, and 5 status pages in the same plan. Business — $20/mo 100 checks, 10 members — still cron-only; the uptime half needs a second tool. Cron + uptime + SSL + a status page Growth — $40/mo total One monitor list, one incident pipeline, one bill. ~$35–50/mo across two tools Healthchecks.io Business ($20) plus a typical uptime/status-page product ($15–30) — two dashboards, two vendors. Self-hosted, compliance-driven Not offered FourSight is hosted only. If self-hosting is a hard requirement, that decides it. Free — open source Run Healthchecks on your own infrastructure at server cost. A real, honest advantage. Healthchecks.io figures as published July 2026 — verify with the vendor. FourSight prices are from our public pricing page (annual billing ≈ 25% off). Full FourSight plan details are on the [pricing page](/pricing). Honest take ## Which pricing wins, where Pricing pages usually pretend the writer's tool is cheaper in every scenario. Here's the fair version — where Healthchecks.io's pricing is genuinely the better deal, and where FourSight's is. ### Where Healthchecks.io wins Where Healthchecks.io's pricing genuinely wins: - Free cron monitoring: 20 checks at $0 beats every hosted competitor, including FourSight (where heartbeats require the $40 Growth plan). - Cron-only at scale: $20/mo for 100 checks is excellent if scheduled jobs are truly all you monitor. - Self-hosting: the open-source edition is free forever on your own hardware. - Niche alert channels — Matrix, ntfy, Signal and dozens more — included at every tier. ### Where FourSight wins Where the consolidated plan wins: - You're already paying for (or shopping for) a second tool to cover uptime, SSL, DNS, or a status page — $40 flat replaces the pair. - Customer-facing status pages are a requirement; Healthchecks.io doesn't offer them at any price. - You want cron-miss alerts escalating through the same policies as uptime incidents instead of two separate alerting configs. - Active multi-region probing with quorum consensus matters for your public endpoints. FAQ ## Healthchecks.io pricing questions #### How much does Healthchecks.io cost? As published July 2026 (verify with the vendor): free for 20 checks and 3 team members, Business at $20/mo for 100 checks and 10 members, Business Plus at $80/mo with higher limits. The open-source edition is free to self-host. #### Is Healthchecks.io's free tier better than FourSight's? For cron monitoring, unambiguously yes — 20 free checks versus zero (FourSight heartbeats unlock on the $40 Growth plan). FourSight's free tier covers a different job: 10 active uptime monitors with 4-region quorum consensus and a status page. Different tools win different free comparisons, and we'd rather say that than spin it. #### What's the real cost of running Healthchecks.io in production? Usually its subscription plus a second product: because it's passive-only, teams add an active uptime/SSL/status-page tool at typically $15–30/mo. That's ~$35–50/mo across two systems versus FourSight Growth at $40/mo for both halves in one — the honest comparison is tool-pair vs consolidation, not tier vs tier. #### Can I keep Healthchecks.io free and add FourSight? Yes — a common pattern: leave low-stakes internal scripts on Healthchecks.io's free tier and put revenue-critical jobs, uptime, SSL, and the public status page on FourSight. The tools don't conflict. Go deeper ## Related features & guides [ #### Cron job monitoring FourSight's heartbeat model — cron expressions, grace periods, miss thresholds. ](/features/cron-job-monitoring)[ #### Heartbeat monitoring for webhooks & ETL Dead-man's-switch patterns beyond crontab: pipelines, syncs, and queues. ](/guides/heartbeat-monitoring-webhooks-etl)[ #### SSL monitoring The active certificate-expiry checks a passive ping listener can't do. ](/features/ssl-monitoring) More price math ## Other pricing comparisons [UptimeRobot pricing](/compare/uptimerobot-pricing)[StatusCake pricing](/compare/statuscake-pricing)[Pingdom pricing](/compare/pingdom-pricing)[Better Stack pricing](/compare/better-stack-pricing)[Uptime Kuma pricing](/compare/uptime-kuma-pricing)[Cronitor pricing](/compare/cronitor-pricing)[Hyperping pricing](/compare/hyperping-pricing)[Pulsetic pricing](/compare/pulsetic-pricing) Or read the full [FourSight vs Healthchecks.io comparison](/compare/healthchecks-alternative) — features, migration steps, and when Healthchecks.io is the better choice. ## Run the numbers on your own monitors Start on the Free plan — 10 monitors, 4-region quorum consensus, commercial use allowed. 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It's also open source — self-hosting is free if you run the infrastructure yourself. There's a Supporter tier for people who simply want to fund the project, which tells you something good about how it's run. The boundary isn't price — it's scope. Healthchecks.io is deliberately passive: it listens for pings and alerts when they stop. It cannot probe a URL, watch an SSL certificate, detect DNS drift, or host a customer-facing status page. Production teams pair it with an active uptime tool, so the real monthly cost is Healthchecks.io plus that second product. FourSight prices both halves as one product: Starter 6/mo covers 50 active uptime monitors; Growth $40/mo adds heartbeat/cron monitors (5-field cron expressions, grace periods) alongside 100 monitors across all 8 check types, escalation policies, and 5 status pages. ## Where Healthchecks.io pricing wins Where Healthchecks.io's pricing genuinely wins: - Free cron monitoring: 20 checks at $0 beats every hosted competitor, including FourSight (where heartbeats require the $40 Growth plan). - Cron-only at scale: 0/mo for 100 checks is excellent if scheduled jobs are truly all you monitor.- Self-hosting: the open-source edition is free forever on your own hardware. - Niche alert channels — Matrix, ntfy, Signal and dozens more — included at every tier. ## Where FourSight pricing wins Where the consolidated plan wins: - You're already paying for (or shopping for) a second tool to cover uptime, SSL, DNS, or a status page — $40 flat replaces the pair. - Customer-facing status pages are a requirement; Healthchecks.io doesn't offer them at any price. - You want cron-miss alerts escalating through the same policies as uptime incidents instead of two separate alerting configs. - Active multi-region probing with quorum consensus matters for your public endpoints. ## Price math by scenario Scenario FourSight Healthchecks.io Up to 20 cron checks, $0 budget No free heartbeats — Heartbeats unlock on Growth ($40/mo). For free cron-only monitoring, Healthchecks.io is simply the right answer. Free — Hobbyist plan — 20 checks, 3 team members. The category's most generous free heartbeat tier (July 2026). 100 cron checks Growth — $40/mo — Heartbeats plus 100 uptime/SSL/DNS monitors, escalations, and 5 status pages in the same plan. Business — 0/mo — 100 checks, 10 members — still cron-only; the uptime half needs a second tool. Cron + uptime + SSL + a status page Growth — $40/mo total — One monitor list, one incident pipeline, one bill. ~$35–50/mo across two tools — Healthchecks.io Business (0) plus a typical uptime/status-page product ( 5–30) — two dashboards, two vendors. Self-hosted, compliance-driven Not offered — FourSight is hosted only. If self-hosting is a hard requirement, that decides it. Free — open source — Run Healthchecks on your own infrastructure at server cost. A real, honest advantage. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does Healthchecks.io cost? As published July 2026 (verify with the vendor): free for 20 checks and 3 team members, Business at 0/mo for 100 checks and 10 members, Business Plus at $80/mo with higher limits. The open-source edition is free to self-host. ### Is Healthchecks.io's free tier better than FourSight's? For cron monitoring, unambiguously yes — 20 free checks versus zero (FourSight heartbeats unlock on the $40 Growth plan). FourSight's free tier covers a different job: 10 active uptime monitors with 4-region quorum consensus and a status page. Different tools win different free comparisons, and we'd rather say that than spin it. ### What's the real cost of running Healthchecks.io in production? Usually its subscription plus a second product: because it's passive-only, teams add an active uptime/SSL/status-page tool at typically 5–30/mo. That's ~$35–50/mo across two systems versus FourSight Growth at $40/mo for both halves in one — the honest comparison is tool-pair vs consolidation, not tier vs tier. ### Can I keep Healthchecks.io free and add FourSight? Yes — a common pattern: leave low-stakes internal scripts on Healthchecks.io's free tier and put revenue-critical jobs, uptime, SSL, and the public status page on FourSight. 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