Server monitoring without Datadog’s per-host bill. $74/mo covers 20 servers, uptime checks, status pages and on-call.
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USD list prices · annual billing on both sides
Priced per host, then metered.
$300/month
$3,600 over 12 months
One plan, one line on the invoice.
$74/month
$890 over 12 monthsKeep $226 a month, $2,710 a year, before Datadog counts a seat or a test run.
Datadog prices read on its list pricing page on , in USD.
List prices only. Datadog negotiates volume discounts per contract, so a quote can sit below list. Its total here leaves out On-Call seats, custom metrics, logs and test runs, which depend on your usage.
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| 20 servers, list pricesUSD, billed annually | Pro · $74/mo | DatadogInfrastructure Pro · $15/host |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Flat plan20 agents in Pro, then $2/mo per server | Per host + usage$15/host/mo annual, $18 on demand |
| Cost at 20 servers | $74/moAll 20 agents included. Agents alone: $54/mo on Essentials. | $300/mo$360/mo on demand |
| Cost at 100 servers | $214/moEssentials plus 95 extra agents. Business is $249/mo with 100 included. | $1,500/moBefore APM, logs or synthetics |
| Bill predictability | FixedPlan price plus any extra agents | Usage-drivenCustom metrics, logs and test runs are metered |
| Where they differ | ||
| Uptime monitoring in the same plan | Included250 monitors on Pro, no per-run billing | $5/10k runsSynthetics, billed per test run |
| On-call and escalations | IncludedIn every paid plan, 3 schedules on Pro | $20/seatOn-Call, per seat per month |
| Metric history | 14 days30 on Business, 7 on Essentials | 15 monthsRoom for capacity planning |
| Threshold alerts on host metrics | Not includedAlerts on liveness: a server that stops reporting goes offline and pages | IncludedMonitors on any metric, with anomaly and forecast options |
| Per-process and container metrics | Not includedHost-level metrics only | IncludedLive Processes, container and Kubernetes views |
| APM, tracing and log management | Not includedNot part of the product | IncludedAPM $31/host/mo, logs from $0.10/GB |
| What both do | ||
| CPU, memory, disk and network from an agent | IncludedEvery 30 seconds | Included |
| Load averages and CPU per state | Included | Included |
| Filesystem usage per mount point | Included | Included |
| Linux, macOS and Windows agents | IncludedWindows 10 and Server 2016+, amd64 | Included |
| Customer-facing status pages | Included3 on Pro, custom domain, email, SMS, Slack and Teams subscribers | IncludedStatus Pages, in the Incident Response suite, email subscribers |
| Slack, Teams, PagerDuty and webhook alerts | Included | Included |
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Get started free“Hyperping’s reputation in our company is that it’s more reactive than Datadog. We usually get notifications from Hyperping before Datadog.”
The agent is a single binary with an embedded OpenTelemetry collector, about 50 MB of memory and no JVM. If ingest is unreachable, samples wait in an on-disk queue and survive a reboot.
Install the agentPro includes 20 server agents and each one after that is $2 a month. No per-host price to multiply, no custom metric to count, no log volume to forecast.
See pricingWhen metrics stop, the server turns stale, then offline after its threshold, 90 seconds by default and tunable per server. That opens an outage and runs your escalation policy, like a failed HTTP check.
Server alertingThe CPU graph and the HTTP check that paged you sit in the same project, so you see at once whether an endpoint slowed down because its box ran out of memory.
Metrics collectedLinux with systemd, macOS with launchd, Windows 10 or Server 2016 and later as a service. A mixed fleet lands in the same Servers view, with the same alerting.
Supported systemsPro includes 3 status pages, public or private, on your own domain. Post an update and subscribers hear it by email, SMS, Slack or Teams.
Status pagesThe same agent on Linux, macOS and Windows, enrolled with the token from your Servers page.
# Linux (systemd) and macOS (launchd)
curl -fsSL \
https://hyperping.com/install.sh \
| sh -s HP_INSTALL_xxxxx
# Metrics in about a minuteThe installer detects the OS, architecture and init system, then runs the agent as a service. It scrapes every 30 seconds and ships OTLP over HTTP.
Read the install guide# Windows 10 or Server 2016+, as Admin
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm `
https://hyperping.com/install.ps1))) `
HP_INSTALL_xxxxx
# Runs as a Windows serviceOne PowerShell command as Administrator, on Windows 10 or Server 2016 and later. Linux and Windows hosts share the same Servers view and alerting.
Install on Windowscurl -X POST \
https://api.hyperping.io/v1/monitors \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Checkout API",
"url": "https://api.acme.com/health",
"check_frequency": 60
}'Add the HTTP checks for the services those servers run, from the API or the dashboard. When a check fails, the CPU and memory of the box behind it are one click away.
Explore the APIDatadog: Infrastructure Pro at $15 per host per month on an annual contract comes to $300 a month. On demand it is $18 per host, so $360. Infrastructure Enterprise is $23 per host.
Hyperping: Pro at $74 a month includes 20 server agents, 250 uptime monitors, 3 status pages, on-call and 10 seats. Each extra server is $2 a month.
Agents are sold on every paid plan, so agents alone come out lower: 20 servers is $54 a month on Essentials plus 15 extras, 100 servers is $214 on Essentials plus 95. The server monitoring cost calculator finds the lowest total for your own fleet.
The per-host line is the part you can forecast. The rest is metered: custom metrics past the per-host allotment at $5 per 100, log ingest at $0.10 per GB plus indexing from $1.27 per million events, Synthetics at $5 per 10,000 API test runs and $12 per 1,000 browser runs, APM at $31 per host.
None of these are unfair charges. They are why a Datadog invoice is hard to predict a quarter out, and why teams shopping for an alternative say the bill grew faster than the fleet.
Hyperping meters one thing, the number of server agents: $74 a month for 20, then $2 for each one after that, $1.50 on Business.
Datadog wins on scope. If you need APM and distributed tracing, log management, per-process, container or Kubernetes metrics, threshold alerts on any metric or hundreds of integrations, Hyperping has none of those and is not building toward them.
Hyperping collects host metrics: CPU per state including iowait, 1, 5 and 15-minute load averages, memory, filesystem usage per mount point, disk I/O per device and network bytes per interface. It pairs them with uptime checks, status pages and on-call. The full list is in metrics collected.
If your servers are what you watch and traces belong to another team, the smaller product costs about a quarter as much. If you are chasing a p99 across 40 services, stay on Datadog.
Plenty of teams pay observability-platform prices for four graphs and a page when a box goes quiet. At 20 servers that is $300 a month against $74, and the gap grows each time someone adds a custom metric.
Hyperping Pro is $74 a month for 20 server agents, uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call, on one line of the invoice. If you need tracing and logs, Datadog is the better product. If you don’t, you are renting a platform to watch memory usage.
Datadog Infrastructure Pro lists at $15 per host per month on an annual contract and $18 on demand. Infrastructure Enterprise is $23 per host, and APM is a separate $31 per host. Those are list prices, before custom metrics, logs, test runs and per-seat products like On-Call. For every line item, see our Datadog pricing breakdown.
For host metrics, Hyperping Pro is $74 a month with 20 server agents included and $2 a month per extra server. The same 20 hosts on Datadog Infrastructure Pro are $300 a month at list price. Hyperping’s price also covers 250 uptime monitors, 3 status pages and on-call. See pricing.
It replaces the infrastructure monitoring part. Hyperping collects CPU, memory, filesystem, disk I/O and network metrics from a lightweight agent and pages your on-call rotation when a server stops reporting. It does not do APM, distributed tracing, log management, per-process or container metrics, or threshold alerts on a metric value. If your team relies on those, keep Datadog, or compare the other Datadog alternatives that cover APM and logs.
CPU time per state (user, system, iowait) as a percentage of wall time, 1, 5 and 15-minute load averages, memory in use per state, filesystem used and free per mount point, bytes read and written per block device, bytes in and out per network interface, and host metadata such as OS, kernel, architecture and CPU model. Samples arrive every 30 seconds. See metrics collected.
Yes. The agent runs on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 or later (amd64) as a Windows service, installed with one PowerShell command, next to Linux with systemd and macOS with launchd on amd64 and arm64. A mixed fleet lands in the same Servers view. See install the agent.
Yes. Datadog Status Pages, part of its Incident Response suite, publishes public or internal pages with email subscriptions. Hyperping includes status pages in every plan, 3 on Pro with custom domains, and subscribers follow updates by email, SMS, Slack or Teams. See status pages.
The per-host line is usually the smallest part. Custom metrics past the per-host allotment bill at $5 per 100 a month, log ingest starts at $0.10 per GB with indexing on top, and Synthetics bills per test run. A fleet that never grows can still produce an invoice that does.