Checkly
Code-first synthetic monitoring and testing, with AI agents for reliability
By Checkly · HQ Berlin, Germany · 4.3/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Engineering and SRE teams that want monitoring as code using Playwright, TypeScript, Terraform or Pulumi
- Teams whose AI coding agents ship fast and need automated monitor creation plus root cause analysis
- Companies needing uptime, API and browser checks run from 20+ global locations with alerting and status pages
Ideal size: 10–500 engineers people · Scale-up with DevOps/SRE ownership of reliability and CI/CD
Not for
- Non-technical teams looking for click-only, no-code monitor setup
- Buyers wanting full APM, log management or SIEM in a single platform
- Organisations that require self-hosted or on-premise deployment
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Same day (first check in under an hour)
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$768/yr
Starts at $288 · Usage-based plans billed monthly or annually; free Hobby tier, self-serve Starter ($24/mo) and Team ($64/mo), custom Enterprise; check-run overages billed.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Hobby 1 user, Starter 3 users, Team 10 users, Enterprise custom
Add-on costs
- Additional uptime monitors: $8 per 25 monitors per month
- Additional browser/Playwright check runs: $4.00 per 1k; overages $6.25–$6.50 per 1k
- Additional API check runs: $1.80 per 10k; overages $2.50–$2.60 per 10k
- Enterprise add-ons such as Traces and extra Rocky AI analysis invocation packs
Company & support
Who is behind Checkly, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
How you get support
- PhoneEnterprise only
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatAll plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumAll plans
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Not stated
Live chat and email ([email protected]) are available on all plans, alongside documentation and the community Slack. Enterprise adds premium support with priority access, guided onboarding, a dedicated Customer Success Engineer, a private Slack/MS Teams channel and 24x7 phone escalation.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Checkly sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Companies on the chart 6 / 10
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Checkly ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Vendor pages describe an AI-native, agent-driven workflow: the official Checkly MCP server lets MCP clients create, update and delete checks, monitors and groups; Agent Skills install into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex; Rocky AI performs automated root cause analysis of failing checks on all plans, sold via the Resolve module and invocation packs.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- OpenAI, Anthropic
- AI pricing
- Paid add-on
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Checkly is a developer-first synthetic monitoring and testing platform: uptime, API, multistep and Playwright browser checks are defined as code in TypeScript, Terraform or Pulumi and run from 20+ global regions. Smart alerting, branded status pages, dashboards and OpenTelemetry traces round it out. An AI-native workflow adds an official MCP server, Agent Skills for coding assistants and Rocky AI root cause analysis. A free Hobby tier starts same-day; Starter and Team are self-serve.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can we get our first monitor running?
Checkly's own onboarding timeline is signup at Day 1 0:00, install (npx checkly init) at 0:05 and deploy to 20+ regions by 0:15, with no infrastructure to manage. Teams already using Playwright can reuse existing tests as scheduled monitors.
What does Checkly cost at mid-market scale?
The Hobby plan is free (10 uptime monitors, 10k API and 1k browser check runs per month). Starter is $24/month and Team $64/month billed annually, covering 3 and 10 users respectively. Overages run $6.25–$6.50 per 1k browser/Playwright runs and $2.50–$2.60 per 10k API runs, and extra uptime monitors cost $8 per 25 per month.
Do we have to install agents inside our own network?
No. Checkly is a SaaS platform that reaches your endpoints from 20+ public locations with no privileged access to your network and no installation required. Private Locations are optional and run inside your own infrastructure for internal services; data is stored in the EU (AWS eu-west-1).
Which security and privacy certifications does Checkly hold?
Checkly states on its security page that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant (covering security, availability, confidentiality, privacy and processing integrity) and fully GDPR compliant, with AES-256 encryption at rest, HTTPS in transit and MFA on production access. The ISO 27001 and HIPAA mentions on that page refer to its Auth0 and AWS providers, not to Checkly itself.
Can our AI coding agents create and manage monitors?
Yes. Checkly ships an official MCP server (api.checklyhq.com/mcp) that lets MCP-capable clients and agents create, update and delete checks, monitors and groups, plus Agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex and a CLI and REST API built for agent-driven automation.
What support is included, and what does Enterprise add?
Live chat, email [email protected], documentation and community Slack are available on all plans. Enterprise adds premium support with faster response times, guided onboarding, a dedicated Customer Success Engineer, a private Slack/MS Teams channel and 24x7 phone escalation for critical issues.