Quietbeat vs Healthchecks.io: the Healthchecks.io alternative

Quietbeat's heartbeats watch scheduled jobs and sit beside HTTP, TCP and DNS checks, a status page and on-call, so a missed cron and a down API follow one incident path. Below, Quietbeat's plans are set beside Healthchecks.io's, with every figure about Healthchecks.io sourced and dated.

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Why teams choose Quietbeat over Healthchecks.io

Paging and escalation when a job misses. Rotations, overrides and escalation ladders from Solo at $9 a month, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team. A rotation emails the person on call; ladder pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. Healthchecks.io: No on-call scheduling listed; alerts go to email, Slack, Telegram, webhooks, PagerDuty and more. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Uptime checks and a status page beside the heartbeats. HTTP, TCP and DNS checks run in the same plan as the heartbeats. Every plan has status pages with badges, the free one included; from Solo each can sit on your own domain. Healthchecks.io: No hosted status pages found; status badges per check. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
200 monitors for $19 a month. On Team, billed monthly, or $190 a year. Heartbeats count among the monitors, and teammates are unlimited. Healthchecks.io: Business is $20/mo billed monthly or $192/yr ($16/mo) for 100 checks. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
An MCP server that reads and writes. REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and a first-party MCP server, read and write, on every plan including Hobby. One token serves both. Healthchecks.io: No MCP server mentioned in the API docs. (source, 16 Oct 2026)

Side by side.

Quietbeat's column from the plan table the product enforces. Healthchecks.io's column as of 2026-10-16, each cell from the source it links.

	Quietbeat	Healthchecks.io
Free plan	Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server.	Hobbyist: 20 checks, 100 log entries per check. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Paid plan for a small team	Team: $19/mo or $190/yr, flat. 200 monitors every 30 s, 5 pageable people, unlimited teammates, 1 year of history.	Supporter: $5/mo, 20 checks, 100 log entries per check. (source, 16 Oct 2026) Business: $20/mo monthly or $192/yr ($16/mo), 100 checks, 1,000 log entries per check, 50 SMS or WhatsApp and 20 phone-call credits a month, email support. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Fastest check	30 s from Team; 60 s on Hobby and Solo.	Set per check, as a period with a grace time or as a cron expression. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
On-call and escalation	Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price.	No on-call scheduling listed. Alerts go to email, Slack, Telegram, webhooks, PagerDuty and more. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Status pages	Included on every plan, with badges; your own domain from Solo.	No hosted status pages found; status badges per check. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Heartbeat and cron monitoring	Included on every plan: GET or POST /b/:token, with /start and /fail, a grace period, and a diagnostic payload stored with the beat.	The whole product: cron and heartbeat checks. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
API and MCP	REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and a first-party MCP server, read and write, on every plan including Hobby. One token serves both.	REST API with read-only or read-write project keys, about 100 requests a minute. No MCP server mentioned in the API docs. (source, 16 Oct 2026)

Prices are each vendor's own published figures on the date shown; a per-user price is multiplied by the people on your rota, and Quietbeat's is not. Where Healthchecks.io's page could not be read with confidence, or a figure could not be reproduced, the cell says so or says less.

How Quietbeat is shaped.

What scales is how many people a page can reach, not how many teammates you invite: teammates are unlimited from Team, and a page reaches 5 people on Team and 40 on Scale.
Monitoring and paging share one incident: the alert carries what the checker saw, and the same incident drives the status page, the escalation ladder and the acknowledgement.
Open to code and to agents on every plan, Hobby included: a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, a write-capable MCP server, and a sync manifest for monitoring as code.
Hosted in Germany, in the EU, by an EU company.

How heartbeat monitors watch a scheduled job, with examples: cron job monitoring.

Moving over from Healthchecks.io to Quietbeat.

Quietbeat imports from Healthchecks.io. Paste your read-only API key at /import/healthchecks; the importer reads your account, shows the plan as a checklist and creates only what you tick. It never deletes anything, here or there. The key is read-only: Healthchecks.io → Project Settings → create a read-only API key.

Every check becomes a heartbeat monitor: period checks keep their grace and take the nearest interval Quietbeat offers at or above their period, so a 2-minute period becomes 5 minutes. The longest interval is 24 hours, so a longer period is shortened to it; give such a job a cron expression after the import. Cron checks in UTC keep their cron expression.
A cron check in another time zone is skipped with a note rather than guessed at, because a wrong period would page you on a schedule you never set.
Ping URLs cannot transfer, so each job is pointed at its new URL before Healthchecks.io is switched off.

Questions people ask.

Why switch from Healthchecks.io to Quietbeat?

Paging and escalation when a job misses; uptime checks and a status page beside the heartbeats; 200 monitors for $19 a month; and an MCP server that reads and writes.

Is Quietbeat a free Healthchecks.io alternative?

Quietbeat's free plan needs no card. Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server. On Healthchecks.io's side, Hobbyist: 20 checks, 100 log entries per check.

What does Quietbeat cost next to Healthchecks.io?

Quietbeat: Team: $19/mo or $190/yr, flat. 200 monitors every 30 s, 5 pageable people, unlimited teammates, 1 year of history. Healthchecks.io: Supporter: $5/mo, 20 checks, 100 log entries per check. Business: $20/mo monthly or $192/yr ($16/mo), 100 checks, 1,000 log entries per check, 50 SMS or WhatsApp and 20 phone-call credits a month, email support.

Does Quietbeat include on-call, and does Healthchecks.io?

Quietbeat: Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price. Healthchecks.io: No on-call scheduling listed. Alerts go to email, Slack, Telegram, webhooks, PagerDuty and more.

Can I import my Healthchecks.io monitors into Quietbeat?

Yes. Paste your read-only API key at /import/healthchecks; Quietbeat reads your Healthchecks.io account, shows the plan as a checklist and creates only what you tick. The key is read-only, so nothing there can change. Every check becomes a heartbeat monitor: period checks keep their grace and take the nearest interval Quietbeat offers at or above their period, so a 2-minute period becomes 5 minutes. The longest interval is 24 hours, so a longer period is shortened to it; give such a job a cron expression after the import. Cron checks in UTC keep their cron expression. A cron check in another time zone is skipped with a note rather than guessed at, because a wrong period would page you on a schedule you never set. Ping URLs cannot transfer, so each job is pointed at its new URL before Healthchecks.io is switched off.

Figures about Healthchecks.io in these answers are the ones above, with their sources and dates.

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