CheckFast vs Freshping
an honest comparison
Side-by-side
| Feature | CheckFast | Freshping |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing entry tier (as of 2026) | $9/mo Starter | Free / $19+/mo paid |
| Free tier limits | 3 free monitors + one-off tools | 50 monitors, 1-min cadence |
| Tools / dimensions covered | Uptime, SSL, email, speed, DNS, cron, broken links + 14 more | Uptime + status page |
| HTTP/HTTPS uptime | ||
| SSL expiry alerts | basic | |
| Email deliverability scoring | ||
| Cron heartbeat | ||
| DNS monitoring | ||
| Page speed monitoring | ||
| Broken-link sweeps | ||
| Uptime monitor cadence | 1m–5m by plan | 1m–60m |
| Telegram alerts | via webhook | |
| Slack / webhook / email alerts | ||
| Public status page | Pro+ at /status/[handle] | |
| Public API | Pro $29/mo | paid tiers |
| White-label / agency | Forest tier | |
| Freshworks suite integration |
Why teams switch
44-tool catalog, one bill
Freshping is uptime + status page. CheckFast adds SSL depth, email deliverability, cron, DNS, page speed and the wider site-health catalog under one subscription.
Native alert channels
Telegram is available on Starter; Slack and webhook delivery are available on Pro and Agency.
No suite lock-in
Freshping is best when you also live in Freshdesk / Freshservice. CheckFast is a standalone — no upsell into a CRM.
Freshping is free, polished, and narrowly scoped
Freshping is one of the better free uptime monitors on the market. Fifty checks at one-minute cadence on the free tier, a clean dashboard, a status page that actually looks good, and integrations into the wider Freshworks suite for teams already using Freshdesk or Freshservice. If your only monitoring need is "is the homepage up, and where do I post that to a status page" — Freshping is hard to beat.
The trade-off is scope. Freshping does uptime, page speed on higher tiers, and the status page. It does not validate certificates beyond a surface check, does not score SPF / DKIM / DMARC, does not monitor DNS records for drift, and does not have a cron heartbeat endpoint. For a team that only needs uptime, none of that matters. For a team that has email deliverability incidents twice a year and would rather catch them before customers complain, those gaps are real.
What CheckFast adds
CheckFast is built around the idea that "site health" is more than uptime. Our email checker validates SPF (with void-lookup detection and proper "all" qualifier evaluation), probes DKIM across thirty-plus selectors, parses DMARC policy and alignment, validates BIMI plus VMC, MTA-STS DNS plus policy file, TLS-RPT, DNSSEC and DANE. The SSL checker scores security headers (HSTS, CSP, Permissions-Policy, Referrer-Policy, X-Frame-Options) and CAA records. Cron heartbeats record starts, completions, explicit failures and missed expected pings. DNS monitoring tracks record drift over time. Broken-link checks inspect links discovered on the submitted page. The hub at /check combines nineteen dimensions into a shareable audit.
What Freshping still wins on
CheckFast does not include free monitors, while Freshping offers fifty monitors at one-minute cadence. Freshping's status page is a more mature, visually polished product. If your operations live inside Freshdesk or Freshservice, the native suite integration moves outage events into tickets without webhook plumbing. None of that is small.
The honest recommendation
Stay on Freshping if it is doing everything you need and you are happy inside the Freshworks ecosystem. Switch to CheckFast if you have ever paid for a separate email deliverability checker, a separate SSL deep-scan, or a separate cron heartbeat — we bundle those monitoring categories from $9/mo. Run both during validation if you are unsure: keep Freshping on the homepage uptime check, point CheckFast at representative targets, and compare the resulting run and alert history before deciding.
Migrate from Freshping in 4 steps
Copy-paste this. We don't make migration painful.
# 1. Export your Freshping check list # Dashboard -> Settings -> Checks -> Export CSV # 2. Sign up at checkfast.io and open /monitors # Recreate each target through /monitors/new # 3. Recreate alert contacts # Settings -> Notifications -> add Telegram / email # Slack and webhook delivery require Pro or Agency # 4. Pause (don't delete) Freshping checks for one week # Exercise expected checks and alert paths, then archive
FAQ
Is Freshping really free?+
Freshping has a long-running free tier (50 monitors at 1-min checks, status page, basic alerts), which is genuinely generous. The catch is that the product lives inside the Freshworks ecosystem and integrates best when you also use Freshdesk or Freshservice. CheckFast costs money from $9/mo but is a focused standalone tool with no upsell into a CRM suite.
Why pay if Freshping is free?+
Two reasons. First, breadth — Freshping is uptime + status page only, while CheckFast has a 44-tool site-health catalog spanning SSL, email deliverability, page speed, cron, DNS, broken links, SEO and security headers. Second, depth — our email checker validates SPF / DKIM / DMARC / BIMI / MTA-STS / TLS-RPT / DNSSEC.
Does CheckFast have a public status page?+
Yes. Pro and Agency users can publish /status/<handle> with current monitor state, seven-day uptime and the latest incident timestamp. Freshping offers a more mature status-page product, so keep it if advanced status-page presentation is your primary requirement.
What about the Freshworks integrations?+
Freshping plugs into Freshdesk and Freshservice for incident-to-ticket workflows. CheckFast integrates via webhooks, Slack, Telegram and email — no proprietary suite. If your support stack is Freshworks, the integration story leans Freshping. If it is Slack + PagerDuty + Telegram, CheckFast is the easier wire-up.
Pricing comparison?+
Freshping is free up to 50 checks at 1-min cadence. Paid tiers (Garden / Estate / Forest) start around $19/mo (as of 2026) and add multi-region, longer log retention and SLA reports. CheckFast Starter is $9/mo, Pro $29/mo and Agency $79/mo, alongside a 44-tool one-off diagnostic catalog.
How fast is the migration?+
Export or copy the Freshping URL list, recreate each monitor through /monitors/new, and configure CheckFast alert channels. Keep Freshping running during validation, then retire it only after the new monitors have produced clean runs.