CuliPulse vs Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io is an online service for monitoring regularly running tasks such as cron jobs. It focuses on one thing: alerting when something does not happen on time.
| Feature | CuliPulse | Healthchecks.io |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 50 monitors, checks every 5 min, 30 days of history. | Yes. The Hobbyist plan covers 20 jobs and keeps 100 log entries per job.source |
| Cheapest paid plan | $9/month (Solo): 30 monitors, checks every 60s, 1 year of history. | Business: $20/month ($16/month billed annually) for 100 jobs, with SMS, WhatsApp and phone call credits. A $5/month Supporter plan has the same limits as the free plan.source |
| Private / internal services | A small open-source agent runs inside your network and connects out to CuliPulse. No inbound ports. | The monitored system sends a check-in to Healthchecks.io, so a job on a private network only needs outbound access to report.source |
| Cron job (heartbeat) monitoring | Yes. Each job pings its own URL; you're alerted when a ping doesn't arrive on time. | Yes. It is all the service does: it monitors regularly running tasks such as cron jobs, which must check in on time, and alerts when something does not happen on time. It focuses on this one job rather than running HTTP checks.source |
| Status pages | 1 status page on Free, up to 10 on Pro, hosted at culipulse.dev/s/<name>. | Public status badges for each tag and for the whole account, to embed in READMEs, dashboards or your own status pages. A hosted status page is not described.source |
| Terraform provider | Official provider culipulse/culipulse for Terraform and OpenTofu (HTTP and heartbeat monitors, webhook channels, alert routing). | A third-party provider, terraform-provider-healthchecksio, is listed in its resources docs. It supports creating, updating and deleting checks.source |
| Open source / self-hosting | The agent is open source (Apache-2.0). CuliPulse itself is a hosted service. | Yes. Open source under the BSD 3-clause license, and you can host it yourself instead of using the hosted service.source |
| Notification channels | Email, Slack, Telegram and webhooks. | Email, webhooks, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, phone call, SMS, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, among others.source |
Where Healthchecks.io is stronger
- Open source and self-hostable, so you can run your own copy.source
- Has been running since July 2015.source
- Business plans include SMS, WhatsApp and phone call credits.source
- Free for open-source projects and non-profits: the Business plan is offered at no charge.source
Where CuliPulse is different
- Checks private and internal services through a small open-source agent you run inside your network. It only makes outbound connections.
- Shared check locations in Singapore, Frankfurt and Montreal, plus any number of your own agents.
- HTTP and heartbeat monitors, webhook channels and alert routing can live in code with the official Terraform / OpenTofu provider.
Questions
Does Healthchecks.io have a free plan?
Yes. The Hobbyist plan covers 20 jobs and keeps 100 log entries per job.
Is Healthchecks.io open source?
Yes. It is open source under the BSD 3-clause license and can be self-hosted.
What does Healthchecks.io monitor?
Regularly running tasks such as cron jobs. Your job pings a URL, and Healthchecks.io alerts you when a ping doesn't arrive on time.
Healthchecks.io is a trademark of its owner. CuliPulse is not affiliated with Healthchecks.io. Facts last checked 2026-10-10. Prices and plans change — follow the source links for the current details.