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.
Read the Checkly pageCheckly vs SigNoz
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 SigNoz if platform teams who will stay on Community Edition $0 (self-host, no card) while they ship a first OTel pipeline, then buy Cloud Teams at $49/month when they want $49 of included
Best for
Checkly Playwright checks you start at $0
SigNoz APM you start at $0 OSS or $49 Cloud
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
SigNoz $0 · self-host. You run the cluster, storage, upgrades, and backups. Community Slack. No Teams chat / email support
Lowest paid
Checkly Starter $24/mo yearly
SigNoz Enterprise $4/mo
Next step up
Checkly
SigNoz Startup program $19/mo
Runs where
Checkly Local or hosted
SigNoz Local; you host it
Watch out
Checkly Hobby is 1,000 Playwright runs and 10 uptime monitors
SigNoz Cloud has a $49 floor
Last checked
Checkly 2026-10-22 · checklyhq.com/pricing
SigNoz 2026-10-22 · signoz.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick SigNoz if
platform teams who will stay on Community Edition $0 (self-host, no card) while they ship a first OTel pipeline, then buy Cloud Teams at $49/month when they want $49 of included usage and no cluster to run.
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