Who each tool is for
Freshping
Teams that used its free plan for simple uptime checks on a few sites.
Beamfar
Web agencies and freelancers who want monitoring with a two-region down rule, what-changed evidence, SEO-risk alerts and monthly reports. Beamfar’s paid plans open soon, so it is not a same-week replacement yet; the 14-day trial is free and needs no card. Individuals in the EU can buy it for their own sites too; individual plans are available in the EU for now.
Side by side
The Beamfar column describes what is built today. The Freshping column is what its own pages say, read on 2026-10-28; where a page did not say, the cell says so.
| Topic | Beamfar | Freshping | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Prices, from €19 to €249 a month, excluding VAT. Nothing can be bought yet. Plan limits: 10, 40, 100 or 200 client sites, and a Free plan for one site after the trial. | Free plan access ended on 6 March 2026 according to the quoted message; paid users keep access until their subscription ends. | Quoted Freshping notice (LowEndSpirit) |
| Trial | 14 days, no card, one per organisation. | Not applicable: the product is reported discontinued. | Quoted Freshping notice (LowEndSpirit) |
| Check interval | Every minute on Solo; every 30 seconds possible on Team and up (a choice per check); every 5 minutes on the Free plan; always from every enabled region. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| How a site is called down | Two regions must agree. One region failing is a regional issue with no alert. Each alert lists what each region saw. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| What changed before an incident | DNS records, the certificate, the final redirect URL and SEO signals are recorded on a timeline and marked when an incident follows within the next hour. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| SEO-risk alerts | Alert when a page becomes noindex, robots.txt starts blocking it, or its canonical moves to another host. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| Other checks | Page, certificate, DNS, API and slowdown checks; TCP port, ping (TCP reachability, not ICMP), DNS blocklist and heartbeat (cron) monitors; and a plan-limited daily or weekly crawl for broken pages and links, mixed content and the sitemap. No Lighthouse or browser performance audits. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| Client reports | One monthly report per client, printable to PDF; your brand on it on the Agency and Agency Plus plans. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| Status pages | 1, 10, 30 or 60 per plan (Solo, Team, Agency, Agency Plus; 1 on Free). Only confirmed incidents show (two regions for page checks, the ping receiver for scheduled tasks). The client’s own domain is built (a host name you verify with a DNS record, with a certificate) but not yet tested against real DNS and TLS. | Not covered by the sources we read. | Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
| People | 1, 2, 10, 25 or 50 per plan (Free, Solo, Team, Agency, Agency Plus). | Data kept for 90 days after shutdown “to allow final exports, then deleted permanently”; export your logs and configurations. The guide gives about 4 June 2026 as the deletion date. | Quoted Freshping notice (LowEndSpirit) and Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) |
Where Freshping is better
- Nothing today: the service is reported discontinued. While it ran, its free plan suited simple checks.
Where Beamfar is better
- It is not discontinued, and it is built for client sites. It is also not on sale yet: Beamfar’s paid plans open soon.
When to choose which
Choose Freshping when
Not applicable: the reports say the service is shut down. If you still have access as a paying customer, plan the move before the subscription ends.
Choose Beamfar when
You want a hosted monitor for client sites with two-region confirmation, what-changed evidence and monthly reports, and you can wait for launch. Otherwise compare the tools that are on sale now: Pingdom, StatusCake, Better Stack, HetrixTools, the self-hosted Uptime Kuma, or UptimeRobot, Site24x7 and Oh Dear.
Questions
When did Freshping shut down?
A quoted copy of the Freshping notice and a shutdown guide give 6 March 2026 as the date free access ended and renewals stopped. We could not read a Freshworks page, so confirm with Freshworks.
What happens to my Freshping data?
The quoted notice says data is kept for 90 days after shutdown to allow final exports and then deleted permanently, and that paid users keep access until their subscription ends. Export your logs and configurations.
What should I look for in a replacement?
How it confirms downtime, how fast it checks, which alerts it sends, whether it has status pages and reports per client, and whether it checks from outside your own network.
Sources
Read on . Standards and vendor pages change; confirm the current text before you rely on it.
- Quoted Freshping notice (LowEndSpirit forum post) (www.lowendspirit.com)
- Freshping shutdown guide (Notifier) (notifier.so)