Freshping shut down: honest alternatives and how to migrate
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Freshping is not declining, pivoting, or winding down slowly. It's gone. Freshworks disabled free accounts on March 6, 2026, and permanently deleted all account data after June 4, 2026, per its official deprecation FAQ. If you're reading this, you're probably not comparing monitors - you're replacing one that vanished.
What happened to Freshping?
Freshworks deprecated it. Free accounts stopped working on March 6, 2026, and all monitoring data was permanently deleted after June 4, 2026; as of July 2026, the deprecation FAQ on the Freshping support site is the main thing left standing. If you didn't export your uptime history before the deletion date, it is unrecoverable. Nobody migrating from Freshping brings data with them - everyone starts from zero.
What did Freshping's free plan offer?
50 checks at 1-minute intervals, free. That number deserves a moment of respect: as of July 2026, we know of no hosted free tier that matches it. Most free plans check 5 to 20 monitors every 3 to 5 minutes, and 1-minute intervals are almost always a paid feature.
Freshping could afford to be that generous because it was a free product inside a much larger company - and when the company's priorities moved, the product went away. That's not a knock on Freshworks. It's the risk profile of any free tool that isn't its maker's main business, and it's worth remembering while you choose the replacement.
What actually replaces 1-minute checks?
Honestly: a paid plan, a self-hosted monitor, or one free exception we know of. If 1-minute detection is a requirement and not a habit, pick from this list, not from us:
- Self-host Uptime Kuma. Any interval you want, as many monitors as your hardware carries. You also inherit the hosting, the updates, and the job of monitoring your monitor - we wrote an honest page about that trade: Uptime Kuma, compared.
- Pay for a hosted plan. Most hosted monitors sell 1-minute intervals on their entry paid tiers. Prices and limits change often enough that you should read the vendor's current pricing page, not a blog post's summary of it - ours included.
- HetrixTools' free tier. As of July 2026 it checks 15 monitors at 1-minute intervals - the closest free match to Freshping we're aware of. We haven't run it in production; verify it fits before you depend on it.
Where does YoPingMe fit - and where doesn't it?
Plainly: YoPingMe checks every 5 minutes, not every 1 minute. If your alerting genuinely depends on knowing inside a minute, our free plan is not your Freshping replacement, and no wording on this page changes that arithmetic.
If 1-minute checks were the default you happened to be on rather than a requirement, the trade we offer is different: fewer, slower checks that are much harder to fool. Freshping's documentation went offline with the product, so the left column lists only what we can still verify - blank cells are honesty, not shade.
| Freshping free (at shutdown, March 2026) | YoPingMe free | |
|---|---|---|
| Monitors | 50 | 10 |
| Check interval | 1 minute | 5 minutes |
| Check types | - | HTTP, keyword, SSL, ping, TCP |
| Regions per check | - | 2 regions per monitor, chosen from five probe locations on three continents |
| Alert rule | - | A second region must agree before anyone is paged |
| Alert channels | - | Email, webhook, and Slack |
| Raw history | - | 30 days |
| Price | Free | Free; paid Pro ($9/mo) and Team ($29/mo), each with a 14-day trial |
Every YoPingMe check runs from two regions you choose, and nothing pages you until both agree - a routing blip in one region stays a blip. SSL expiry is watched on the same free plan as uptime, so the certificate that quietly runs out on a Saturday gets caught on a Tuesday.
Can we promise we won't shut down like Freshping did? No, and after March 2026 you should be suspicious of anyone who does. What we can say is smaller and checkable: this page tells you plainly when we're the wrong choice, and every claim on it about our product is true as written.
When is YoPingMe the wrong replacement?
- You need detection inside a minute. We check every 5 minutes.
- You need more than 10 monitors. Freshping gave 50; our free plan gives 10.
- You relied on public status pages. YoPingMe doesn't have them yet; they're on the roadmap, not in the product.
How do I migrate from Freshping?
There's nothing to import - the data was deleted in June 2026, so every former Freshping user starts from scratch wherever they land. Starting from scratch here looks like this:
- Sign up - the wizard runs your first check from both your regions while you type.
- Recreate your checks, most important first: HTTP for pages, keyword for pages that can return 200 while broken, SSL for certificates, ping and TCP for everything that isn't HTTP.
- Point alerts at email, a webhook, or Slack, and trigger a test alert so your first real page isn't also your first test.
The one-sentence version: 10 monitors, checked every 5 minutes from two regions you pick, free for commercial use, from a page that told you twice when to go somewhere else.