# Pulsetic — Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages

Pulsetic by Designmodo Inc. holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-11-02. Provenance: Rest of world; sovereignty: 1 of 6 dimensions proven.

- Vendor: Designmodo Inc. (https://pulsetic.com)
- Category: [Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): Rest of world
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/pulsetic
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/pulsetic/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/pulsetic/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-06 · evaluated 2026-11-02 · oldest source captured 2026-11-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Designmodo Inc.
- Headquarters: Incorporated in United States [S9]
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S3]

## The panel's verdict

Pulsetic, an uptime monitoring and status page service from Designmodo Inc. of New York, scores highest on status pages and pricing transparency, both at 7. Status pages publish on a custom domain with one CNAME record, white-label, with 10,000 email subscribers included and additional subscribers at $0.01 each; every tier and add-on is public — Free $0, Solo $9, Team $19, Organization $49 per month, teammates at $8 each, SMS and calls at $0.10 per alert — though we found no public information on VAT treatment. Checks and locations, alerting and on-call, and reports and reliability sit at 6-7, crediting confirmation from a second location before an alert fires and retention stated per plan up to five years. Sovereignty, at 4, is the outlier: the controller is Designmodo Inc. under New York law, personal data is stored in the United States and the European Union, and the captured pages name no EU entity. Scores vary by at most one point per category; the recurring reservation is that on-call scheduling and escalation run through the SIGNL4 integration rather than the product itself.

**Speaks for it:**
- A failure is re-checked and confirmed by a second location before an alert fires, with a screenshot of the page at the moment it failed
- Status pages publish on a custom domain via one CNAME record, white-label with the vendor's branding removed, with uptime history up to five years and 10,000 email subscribers included (extras at $0.01 each)
- Every tier and add-on is public — Free $0 with 10 monitors and 3 status pages, Solo $9, Team $19, Organization $49 per month, teammates at $8 each, SMS and calls at $0.10 per alert, WhatsApp at $0.07 — with no credit card required on the free tier
- Phone-call alerts come from one consistent number that rings through Do Not Disturb
- A documented REST API with an OpenAPI spec covers monitors, heartbeats, domains, status pages, incidents, maintenance and notification channels, plus an MCP server and n8n

**Held against it:**
- On-call scheduling, acknowledgement and escalation are documented through the SIGNL4 integration rather than in the product itself
- The controller is Designmodo Inc. of New York under New York law, personal data is stored in the United States and the European Union, and we found no public information on an EU entity or representative
- We found no public information on the vendor's own incident history, post-mortems or an SLA with credits
- The vendor states everything runs in one account with no per-client logins, and we found no public information on audit logs, SCIM provisioning or bulk import
- The captured pages give different figures for single sign-on — a feature page describes it while the plan comparison shows dashes — and we found no public information on VAT treatment

**Best for:**
- You run an agency and want one white-label status page per client on a domain like status.clientsite.com, managed from a single account
- You need an outage to wake a sleeping engineer — phone-call alerts come from one consistent number that rings through Do Not Disturb
- You must present uptime over custom date ranges that match contract or billing periods, with retention up to five years and PDF or image export
- You want to compute the bill before signing up, with every tier and per-unit add-on published and a free tier requiring no credit card

**Avoid if:**
- You require a European contracting entity or EU-only data residency — the controller is Designmodo Inc. of New York and storage includes the United States
- Your team needs built-in on-call rotations and escalation with timeouts — the documented route runs through the SIGNL4 integration
- You must give each client a separate login — the vendor states everything runs in one account with no per-client logins to manage
- You depend on keyword checks against JavaScript-rendered pages working without extra configuration — the default reads the static HTML the server sends

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Agency Developer | The SaaS Platform Engineer | The Customer Support Lead | The E-Commerce Operations Manager | The Information Security Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Checks, locations & failure confirmation | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Alerting, escalation & on-call | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Status pages & incident communication | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| API, monitoring as code & team administration | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** |

### The judges

- **The Agency Developer** (v1.0): Runs hosting and maintenance at a fifteen-person web agency with sixty client sites on WordPress, TYPO3 and Shopware. Has learned about an expired certificate from a client's angry phone call once and does not want a second time. Wants HTTP, keyword, SSL and domain expiry checks set up in bulk, client groups with their own status pages and monthly uptime reports, and a price per monitor that still works at two hundred monitors.
- **The SaaS Platform Engineer** (v1.0): Platform engineer at a forty-person B2B SaaS in Berlin, one of four people on the on-call rotation. Wants multi-step API checks with assertions, kept in Terraform next to the services they test, failures confirmed from a second location before anyone is woken, phone calls and escalation when an alert is not acknowledged, and a status page that updates without someone logging in at 3 a.m.
- **The Customer Support Lead** (v1.0): Leads a support team of nine at a software company whose customers are tax advisers and payroll offices. During the last outage the team answered three hundred tickets that all asked the same question. Wants a status page on the company's own domain with components customers recognise, incident templates, subscribers notified by email, a private page for the largest accounts, and an uptime history they can point to in a contract renewal.
- **The E-Commerce Operations Manager** (v1.0): Runs operations for an online shop selling garden furniture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with half the year's revenue between March and June. The homepage once answered 200 while the checkout threw an error for six hours. Wants the checkout and the payment page checked, not only the homepage, an SMS or call to whoever is on duty that night, and a report that shows the agency what the downtime cost.
- **The Information Security Officer** (v1.0): Information security officer at a mid-sized logistics company that falls under NIS2 and is working towards ISO 27001. Needs every outage recorded with detection time, response and resolution, in a form an auditor accepts. Reads the subprocessor list before the feature page, because the on-call staff's mobile numbers and the status page subscribers are personal data, and wants single sign-on and an audit log before anyone gets a login.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "30-second checks from 20 locations" that paged the whole team for a single probe's network glitch, a status page that went down with the product it reported on, and "unlimited SMS" with a fair-use clause on page nine. Asks how a failure is confirmed, how long the history is kept and whether it can be exported, where the monitor itself publishes its own outages — and what leaving would cost.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: 1 of 6 dimensions proven.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Incorporated in US | 0/2 | [S9] |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Analytics tools: Plausible Analytics · Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager · Google Ads · Help Scout [S9]
- Breach notification: yes [S9]
- CCPA: yes · no [S9]
- Consent mode v2: pulsetic_consent · yes · 180 · 365 [S9]
- DPA: https://pulsetic.com/dpa/ · yes [S8]
- DPA: yes [S12]
- DPA: yes [S14]
- DPA: yes [S18]
- DPA audit rights: yes [S10]
- DPA available: yes · yes · yes · yes [S5]
- DPA dpo contact: yes [S10]
- DPA no special categories: no [S10]
- DPA scc module: Module Two (controller to processor) · yes [S10]
- DPA security measures: access control incl. two-factor authentication · encryption · DDOS mitigation · limited internal access · regular information security audits [S10]
- DPA transfer mechanisms: EU · EEA · Switzerland · UK · SCCs [S10]
- G2 rating: 225 · 4.8 [S1]
- Gpc honored: yes · yes [S9]
- Hosting certifications: ISO/IEC 27001 · SOC 2 [S9]
- Transfer mechanism: European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses [S9]

**Data**
- Auto removal fields: Company name · Country location · Mailing address · Phone number [S9]
- Breach notification hours: 24 [S10]
- Deletion: built-in delete functionality · dpo@pulsetic.com · yes [S8]
- Export builtin: yes [S9]
- Min age: 18 [S9]
- Monitoring checkpoints: multiple around the world · no [S9]
- No sensitive categories: no [S9]
- Personal data categories: names · surnames · email addresses · phone numbers · physical addresses · access codes · status page passwords · images · URLs · company names · website usage data [S10]
- Retention: retained for contract duration or as long as needed for collection purposes [S9]
- Return or erasure: yes · yes [S10]
- Stored locations: United States · European Union [S9]

**Hosting**
- Parent company: Designmodo Inc. · United States [S13]

**Integrations**
- Alert channels: email · webhook · Slack · Microsoft Teams · Discord · WhatsApp · voice calls · SMS [S3]
- Alert channels: phone, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack (also Discord, Microsoft Teams per FAQ) [S13]
- API: REST · yes · monitors · status pages · incidents · alerts · integrations · yes [S2]
- API: yes · yes · yes [S4]
- API: yes [S8]
- API: REST API · MCP server · n8n integration [S13]
- API: yes · yes · yes [S18]
- API auth: API token in Authorization header [S6]
- API base URL: https://api.pulsetic.com/api/public [S6]
- API key location: Settings > API [S6]
- API mcp n8n: API · MCP · N8N [S7]
- API surface: yes · yes · REST API [S3]
- Check locations: 15 [S13]
- Client controlled endpoints: Slack · Telegram · Discord · Microsoft Teams · Mattermost · SIGNL4 · Datadog · Zapier · custom webhook endpoints [S10]
- Cloudflare allowlist: monitoring IPs allowlisting · yes · Cloudflare [S5]
- Cloudflare allowlisting: Cloudflare allowlisting [S7]
- Discord alerts: downtime and recovery alerts · yes · Discord [S5]
- Discord telegram: Discord · Telegram [S7]
- Endpoints heartbeats domains: /heartbeats · /heartbeats/{id} · /domains · /domains/{id} [S6]
- Endpoints monitors: /monitors · /monitors/{id}/checks · /monitors/{id}/events · /monitors/{id}/stats · /monitors/{id}/downtime [S6]
- Endpoints notification channels: email · webhook · slack-webhook · ms-teams-webhook [S6]
- Endpoints status incidents: /status-page · /status-page/{id}/incidents · /status-page/{id}/maintenance · /incidents/{id}/incident-update [S6]
- Mattermost alerts: uptime alerts in channel · yes · Mattermost [S5]
- Mcp n8n: yes · yes · yes [S12]
- Mcp server: yes · yes [S4]
- Mcp server: Claude · ChatGPT · Cursor · Windsurf · yes [S6]
- More coming: yes [S5]
- N8n: workflow automation from downtime alerts · yes · n8n [S5]
- Notification channels API: email · SMS · webhooks · Slack · Discord · Microsoft Teams · SIGNL4 [S6]
- Oauth: no · no [S6]
- Openapi spec: api.yaml · yes [S6]
- Rest API: JSON · REST over HTTPS · yes [S6]
- Rest API: REST API for monitors, status pages, alert channels, uptime stats and check history [S12]

**Legal**
- Account age: 18 [S8]
- Address: Designmodo Inc. · 169 Madison Ave, #79627 New York, NY 10016 United States [S8]
- Company: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S2]
- Company: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S5]
- Company: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S6]
- Company: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S12]
- Company: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S16]
- Company: Designmodo Inc. · 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States [S19]
- Controller: Designmodo Inc. · 169 Madison Ave, #79627 New York, NY 10016 United States [S9]
- Dmca agent: info@pulsetic.com [S8]
- DPA address: 10016 · New York · Designmodo Inc. · 169 Madison Ave, #79627 · United States [S10]
- DPA available: https://pulsetic.com/dpa/ [S9]
- DPA available: yes [S19]
- DPA entity: Designmodo Inc. · Pulsetic [S10]
- DPA incorporation: yes [S10]
- DPA jurisdiction: New York, United States [S10]
- DPA last modified: 2026-09-14 [S10]
- DPA scc governing note: yes [S10]
- DPA termination breach days: 30 [S10]
- Entity: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S4]
- Entity: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S14]
- Entity: 169 Madison Ave, #79627, New York, NY 10016, United States · Designmodo Inc. [S18]
- Governing law: New York, United States [S8]
- Operator: Designmodo Inc. [S8]
- Policy updated: 2026-09-14 [S9]
- Service bulletins: security notifications · product updates · security patches · data breach notifications [S8]
- Terms change notice: 30 [S8]
- Trademark: yes [S6]
- Trademark: 8,353,384 · yes [S8]
- Trademark: Pulsetic · 2010-2026 [S19]

**Pricing**
- Additional seat: 8 [S17]
- Additional subscriber cost: 0.01 [S4]
- Additional teammate: role-based access · 8 [S12]
- Addon adjustable anytime: monthly · yes [S7]
- Addon AI monitor runs: 15 [S7]
- Addon monitors: 0.2 [S7]
- Addon rum page views: 5 [S7]
- Addon sms call alerts: 0.1 [S7]
- Addon whatsapp alerts: 0.07 [S7]
- API access plan dependent: yes [S6]
- Billing model: monthly · yearly · yes [S8]
- Cancellation: yes · end of current billing period [S8]
- Free no credit card: no [S3]
- Free plan: 10 · yes · 3 · yes · yes [S16]
- Free plan monitors pages: 10 · 3 · no [S15]
- Free plan signup: no [S16]
- Free price: free · 0 [S7]
- Free tier: yes [S3]
- Free tier: yes · customer [S8]
- Free tier: yes · no [S13]
- Free tier: yes · no [S12]
- Organization price: organization · 49 [S7]
- Price change notice: 30 [S8]
- Refund policy: 20 · no · yes [S8]
- Renewal: yes [S8]
- Solo price: solo · 9 [S7]
- Team price: team · 19 [S7]
- Teammate seat: role-based access · 8 [S3]
- Teammate seat: 8 · yes [S2]
- Teammate seat: USD · 8 · yes [S13]
- Teammate seat: 8 · additional teammates with role-based access · usd [S14]
- Teammate seat: 8 · yes [S18]
- Uptime history: 3 · 5 [S4]

**Product**
- Additional alert channels: microsoft_teams · email · sms · whatsapp · phone_call · slack · webhooks [S14]
- Additional monitoring types: Website Monitoring · AI Monitoring · RUM · Dependencies · DNS Monitoring · Screenshots · Annotations [S12]
- AI assistant: AI assistant can create/pause monitors and open incidents with confirmation [S1]
- AI assistant: status · incident · maintenance updates · yes · 8 [S4]
- AI assistant account: AI Assistant · yes [S7]
- AI check schedule: Daily · Hourly · 30 Min. [S7]
- AI monitor runs: 10+ · 30+ · 90+ [S7]
- AI monitoring: AI agent performs browser-based scheduled check flows [S1]
- AI monitoring: New · yes [S18]
- Alert channels: email · webhooks · voice_call · sms · whatsapp · slack · discord · microsoft_teams · zapier [S2]
- Alert channels: email, SMS, calls, WhatsApp, Slack, MS Teams, Discord, Telegram, Twilio, Zapier, webhooks, API [S1]
- Alert channels: email · webhook · Slack · Discord · Microsoft Teams · Zapier · voice call · SMS · WhatsApp [S11]
- Alert channels: email · webhook · Slack · Microsoft Teams · Discord · Zapier · voice call · SMS · WhatsApp [S12]
- Alert channels: yes · yes · yes · yes · yes · yes · yes · yes · yes [S16]
- Alert channels: email · SMS · WhatsApp · phone call · Telegram · Slack · Discord · Microsoft Teams [S18]
- Alert types: yes · yes [S14]
- Analytics retention: 3 Months · 1 Year · 1 Year · 5 Years [S7]
- Annotations: yes [S1]
- Annotations: Annotations · yes [S7]
- API: yes · yes · yes [S17]
- API monitoring: yes [S16]
- API webhooks: yes · yes [S1]
- Auth 2FA SSO: yes · yes [S17]
- Business transfer notice: yes [S9]
- Calculation method: 365.25 · 30.44 [S19]
- Channel routing: Different monitors can be routed to different Teams channels via per-channel webhook URLs [S14]
- Check frequency: 15 · 30 [S18]
- Check interval: 5 Min. · 60 Sec. · 30 Sec. · 30 Sec. [S7]
- Check interval: 30 · yes [S19]
- Check interval customizable: check interval customizable, from every few minutes to once a day [S12]
- Check locations: 15 [S16]
- Check types: uptime, SSL, keyword, port, cron checks [S1]
- Checkin sources: any server, container or CI runner that can request a URL [S3]

**Subprocessors**
- Change notice days: 14 · yes [S10]
- Listed in DPA: https://pulsetic.com/dpa/ [S9]
- Twilio: Twilio (SMS and voice alerts) [S10]

**Support**
- API docs location: help center [S6]
- Channels: email · support chat [S9]
- Knowledge base: yes [S2]
- Live chat: live chat · yes [S8]

200 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/pulsetic

## Questions

### Is Pulsetic European?

No. whats-best.ai classifies Pulsetic as Rest of world. Its vendor, Designmodo Inc., is incorporated in United States, per [the vendor’s page captured 1 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/15580).

### Where does Pulsetic store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### Does Pulsetic have a free plan?

Yes. Pulsetic has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 1 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/15559).

### What are the best alternatives to Pulsetic?

As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Hyperping (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/hyperping), [Checkly (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/checkly) and [openstatus (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/openstatus) highest among the other 14 Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Hyperping](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/hyperping) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Pulsetic alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/uptime-monitoring/pulsetic/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 12 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 10 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://pulsetic.com/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S2] Features page (SSL monitoring): https://pulsetic.com/ssl-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S3] Features page (cron job monitoring): https://pulsetic.com/cron-job-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S4] Features page (status pages): https://pulsetic.com/status-pages/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S5] Integrations page: https://pulsetic.com/integrations/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S6] API documentation: https://pulsetic.com/api/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S7] Pricing page: https://pulsetic.com/pricing/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S8] Terms of service: https://pulsetic.com/terms/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S9] Privacy policy: https://pulsetic.com/privacy/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S10] Data processing agreement (dpa): https://pulsetic.com/dpa/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S11] Checks, locations & failure confirmation — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/tcp-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S12] Checks, locations & failure confirmation — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/keyword-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S13] Alerting, escalation & on-call — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/integrations/webhooks/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S14] Alerting, escalation & on-call — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/integrations/microsoft-teams/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S15] Status pages & incident communication — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/status-page-translation/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S16] API, monitoring as code & team administration — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/developer-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S17] API, monitoring as code & team administration — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/white-label-website-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S18] Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/sla-monitoring/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S19] Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability — found from sitemap: https://pulsetic.com/tools/uptime-sla-calculator/ (checked 2026-11-01)

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