Pick Checkly if
sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location.
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Our take
Pick Checkly if sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location. Pick Rootly if on-call teams who will buy Incident Response at $20 / user / month, then add On-Call at another $20 when they want Rootly to own the roster.
Rootly
hosted incident-and-on-call desk
Best for
Checkly Playwright checks you start at $0
Rootly Incidents you pay per user
Free plan
Checkly $0 · /month. 10 uptime monitors, max frequency 2 min, 6 locations, 1,000 browser/Playwright runs, 10,000 API runs. Email, Slack, webhooks. No private locations
Rootly No free plan
Lowest paid
Checkly Starter $24/mo yearly
Rootly Incident Response $20/user/mo
Next step up
Checkly
Rootly Startup discounts (“<100 employees / <$50m raised / <5 years”; “pay what you can <25 employees”) print as a form, not a dollar. $50
Runs where
Checkly Local or hosted
Rootly Hosted
Watch out
Checkly Hobby is 1,000 Playwright runs and 10 uptime monitors
Rootly $20 is per user per product
Last checked
Checkly 2026-10-22 · checklyhq.com/pricing
Rootly 2026-10-23 · rootly.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Rootly if
on-call teams who will buy Incident Response at $20 / user / month, then add On-Call at another $20 when they want Rootly to own the roster.
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