Hyperping alternative for agency client sites

Hyperping has a page written for agencies, and its plans are priced by monitor tier. Set against OctoPing's flat price per site, the order flips with the site count and with whether clients need white-labelled status pages.

Quick verdict

Our judgment is that Hyperping is the stronger tool when the work includes browser checks, on-call and phone alerts. Essentials adds 3 browser checks and on-call schedules, escalation policies and phone call alerts. OctoPing fits an agency whose clients are marketing sites and who want robots.txt, noindex, hosting and page text checks, plus white-labelled client status pages on every plan. Hyperping offers white labeling on the Business plan.

Choose Hyperping if

• You need browser checks, on-call or phone alerts. Hyperping runs checks every 30 seconds on Essentials and Pro and every 20 seconds on Business, from 18 regions, and Essentials adds on-call schedules, escalation policies and phone call alerts.
• You want to start free. Hyperping offers a free plan with 20 monitors and a 14-day free trial.
• Your clients expect maintenance notices. Hyperping lists maintenance windows that notify subscribers ahead of time, and OctoPing does not email subscribers about a window.

Choose OctoPing if

• Your clients' marketing sites need more than uptime. OctoPing watches robots.txt and noindex, the host and CDN behind an address, and a page's main text. The monitoring features in Hyperping's plan comparison are monitors, check interval, maintenance windows, SSL monitoring, DNS monitoring, chat and incident tool alerts, SMS credits, phone calls, healthchecks, weekly reports, regions, browser checks and uptime SLA reporting. None of them is a robots.txt, noindex or page text check.
• Each client needs a status page of its own. OctoPing's are unlimited and white-labelled on every plan, while Hyperping plans include 1, 3 and 10 status pages on Essentials, Pro and Business.
• A client should receive the alerts you do. A client added as a contact gets the alerts for the page's sites and a monthly summary of them, and contacts are not seats.

How the two compare

The Hyperping column draws on its pricing page, DNS monitoring page and page for agencies.

Hyperping narrows two gaps. It offers a keyword check that fails when the text you expect is missing from the response, which suits a line that should stay in robots.txt, with a monitor for each URL and phrase. Its DNS monitors cover A records, so a host move that changes the address trips an alert. OctoPing needs no phrase or expected address for any of this. A rewritten robots.txt, a page with a new noindex and a move to a new network or CDN each raise an alert.

Pricing at the same site counts

Prices are in US dollars, which Hyperping's page also uses. Monthly is month-to-month billing, and annual is the per-month price Hyperping shows when you pay for a year. The Hyperping plan in each row is the cheapest with a monitor for every site, and each site counts as one monitor.

OctoPing costs less at 20 and 60 sites, and Hyperping costs less at 200, where one Pro plan covers the whole portfolio. White labeling changes the picture for an agency. Client pages without the Hyperping footer need the Business plan at $299 monthly or $249 annual, with 10 status pages. OctoPing includes unlimited white-labelled pages from its first plan.

Where Hyperping does more

• Browser checks and on-call. Essentials includes 3 browser checks and on-call schedules, escalation policies and phone call alerts. OctoPing monitors by HTTP request and has no on-call or phone alerts.
• Reach and speed. It checks from 18 regions every 30 seconds, or every 20 seconds on Business, against OctoPing's four vantage points and 30-second checks on a set number of sites.
• Reporting. It offers a reporting dashboard with uptime, outages, MTTR and MTTA that exports to CSV.
• Branded subscriber email. On Business, white labeling sends subscriber emails from a domain you verify. OctoPing sends subscriber email from its own sending domain, with the page title as the sender name.
• Maintenance. It lists maintenance windows that notify subscribers ahead of time. OctoPing's windows show on the status page and send no subscriber notice.

Moving over

1. Enter each Hyperping monitor's URL as an OctoPing site, as the first site guide describes, and group the sites by client.
2. Choose the checks that go beyond uptime. SSL and domain expiry start on, and DNS, hosting, robots.txt and page text wait for you to enable them. See the guides to catching a robots.txt block and spotting a host move.
3. Pick channels from the alert rules. OctoPing places no phone calls and sends no SMS, so route urgent alerts to Slack or a signed webhook.
4. Turn each Hyperping healthcheck into a heartbeat.
5. Set up each client's status page and contact, then schedule maintenance windows for update nights. OctoPing sends clients no notice of a window, so tell them yourself.

Who builds OctoPing

OctoPing is built by Axiolo, which uses it to watch its clients' marketing websites and landing pages. The checks, the client status pages and the monthly summaries are the ones Axiolo relies on for that work.

How it fits the price

A plan buys a number of sites, and each site carries every check. Unlimited white-labelled status pages come with all three plans. Plans start at $19 a month for 20 sites. See pricing for the full list.

Every account starts with a 14-day free trial. No card required. Start your 14-day trial and add one client's sites to see it working.