NodePing Alternative With a Free Plan Instead of a 15-Day Trial
Looking for a NodePing alternative? NodePing has no free plan: after a 15-day trial the cheapest option is Personal at $10/mo for 5 monitors, without API access. Enterno Scout keeps 10 monitors running at 5 min for free, with REST API v4 included. Test a URL with the check above (Moscow, Germany and US East), then press Monitor this to keep watching it after a free sign-up.
NodePing is also a very capable checker with unlimited SMS, so read the next section before you switch.
Enterno.io vs NodePing
| Feature | Enterno.io | NodePing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · paid from $5/mo | From $10/mo (Personal, 5 monitors) |
| Free plan | 10 monitors at 5 min, every check type | None; 15-day free trial |
| API | REST API v4 on every plan, 200 calls/day on free | RESTful API from Professional ($25/mo) |
| Shortest interval | 1 min from Navigator | 1 min on Personal; 15 s on Professional+ for a fee |
| Alerts | Email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Jira, webhooks on every plan | Email, SMS, Pushover; Slack, webhook, PagerDuty from Professional |
| Status pages | Public status page on every plan | 5 on Personal, 50 on Professional, 200 on Premiere |
| Check locations | Moscow on plans below Navigator; 13 regions in all from Navigator, incl. Germany, US East, Singapore | 5 regions on 5 continents; failures rechecked from other probes |
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Where NodePing is better
- Unlimited notifications, including SMS on every plan and voice on Premiere, with no credit packs to top up.
- Check types beyond the web: SMTP, FTP, SIP, RBL and more, plus AGENT checks for private networks and PUSH checks for custom metrics.
- 15-second intervals on Professional and Premiere for a small per-monitor fee. Enterno stops at 1 min.
- Wide probe network. Five regions: North America, Europe, East Asia/Oceania, Latin America and Africa. A failed check is rechecked from other probes before anyone is alerted.
- Reseller features: subaccounts, branded notifications and an API from Professional.
Where Enterno fits better
- A free plan. 10 monitors at 5 min with every check type, no trial clock.
- API on every plan. NodePing Personal has no API access; Enterno REST API v4 works on Scout.
- Russia coverage. NodePing does not list a probe in Russia; every Enterno monitor checks from Moscow.
- Diagnostics in the same account: SSL, DNS and the multi-region check above.
Price at small scale
For 5 web monitors at a 1-minute interval, NodePing Personal costs $10/mo. Enterno Scout covers 10 monitors for free at 5 min; 1-minute checks start at Navigator ($19/mo for 150 monitors). Above roughly 200 monitors, NodePing Professional at $25/mo plus $0.40 per extra monitor is hard to beat on raw price.
NodePing bills on the peak number of enabled checks in a month, adds overages to the next invoice and charges sub-minute intervals separately: $0.20 per monitor a month for 30 seconds and $0.40 for 15 seconds. Enterno plans have no overage: when you reach the monitor limit you upgrade or remove a monitor.
Trial versus free plan
The NodePing trial is a full product for 15 days. After that you choose a paid plan, and NodePing says it refunds customers who are unsatisfied during the first 30 days. That makes it a fair test for a team that has already decided to pay for monitoring.
A free plan suits a different case: a side project, a staging environment or a client site where nobody will approve a card. Enterno Scout has no end date, and when you outgrow it, paid plans start at $5/mo. If you expect to need SMS or voice escalation within a month, start with the NodePing trial instead.
Which one to pick
- A handful of websites, no budget: Enterno Scout. NodePing has no free tier after the trial.
- Mail, VoIP or DNS-blacklist monitoring at the protocol level: NodePing, whose SMTP, SIP and RBL checks Enterno does not match.
- On-call by SMS or phone without counting credits: NodePing.
- Users in Russia, or you want SSL, DNS and domain expiry checks with diagnostics in one place: Enterno.
- Hundreds of monitors on a tight budget: NodePing Professional, then compare against Enterno Captain.
Moving monitors from NodePing
List your checks with the NodePing API (Professional and above) or from the dashboard, then create them in Enterno through REST API v4 or in Monitors. Cron jobs map to heartbeat monitors.
curl -X POST https://enterno.io/api/v4/monitors \
-H "X-API-Key: $ENTERNO_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com","check_type":"http","interval_minutes":5,"show_on_status_page":true}'
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does NodePing have a free plan?
No. NodePing offers a 15-day free trial; the cheapest plan, Personal, is $10/mo for 5 monitors with 1-minute checks.
Does Enterno send SMS alerts?
No. Enterno alerts by email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Jira and webhooks on every plan. If unlimited SMS or voice is a hard requirement, NodePing is the better fit.
Can Enterno monitor SMTP or SIP like NodePing?
Partly. Port checks confirm that a TCP service such as SMTP accepts connections, but there are no protocol-level SMTP, SIP or RBL checks.
How do I monitor cron jobs?
Create a heartbeat monitor and have the job call its URL after each run; Enterno alerts when a ping is missed. NodePing covers the same need with PUSH checks.
Does NodePing check from several locations?
Each check runs from one probe in the region you choose. When it fails, NodePing immediately rechecks from other locations before notifying, and a roaming option runs every check from a different probe.
Which is cheaper for five 1-minute monitors?
NodePing. Personal is $10/mo for 5 monitors at a 1-minute interval, while Enterno 1-minute checks start at Navigator ($19/mo for 150 monitors). At a 5 min interval, Enterno Scout covers 10 monitors for free.
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