Freshping vs Velprove: Feature-by-Feature Comparison for Teams That Need More

Freshping went dark on March 6, 2026. Free-tier exports close on June 4. This is what Freshping last shipped, line by line, against what Velprove ships today, so you can rebuild your monitors without missing what you actually depended on.

The honest take: Freshping is gone, and the free-tier export window closes in 38 days. Velprove is the replacement that adds three things Freshping never had on its free plan: a real browser login monitor that launches a real browser behind the scenes, a multi-step API monitor with up to 3 chained steps, and monitoring from 5 global regions on every plan. It also covers the application-layer monitor types most Freshping users actually ran (HTTP and HTTPS with per-monitor SSL expiry alerts). Where Freshping wins, it really wins: 50 monitors on free vs our 10, 1-minute interval on free vs our 5, 10 monitoring locations vs our 5, and broader network-layer coverage (ICMP, TCP, UDP, Web Sockets, DNS) which we do not ship as first-class types today. If you ran 50 simple HTTP monitors on Freshping Sprout and never used anything else, we are honestly not the cheapest 1:1 swap. For everyone else, this is the comparison. Start a free Velprove account, no credit card.

The clock you are racing

Per the Freshworks deprecation FAQ, "Free plan accounts will be disabled on March 6, 2026" and "Any subscription set to renew on or after March 6, 2026, will not be processed" (Freshworks support FAQ, verified 2026-04-27). The shutdown already happened. What is still ahead of you is the 90-day data window. The same FAQ states that after shutdown, data is retained in the database for 90 days and then permanently deleted, which puts the free-tier hard deletion at June 4, 2026. As of today there are 38 days left to pull what you need.

"You can export your data immediately until June 4, 2026 if you are on a free tier. If you have a paid plan, you can export your data until 90 days after your subscription end date."
Source: Freshworks deprecation FAQ, verified 2026-04-27.

Per Freshworks's own framing, "Freshworks decided to deprecate Freshping, determining that supporting it is no longer part of their go forward plan". Translation: portfolio simplification, focus on Freshdesk and Freshservice, no successor product, no automated migration tool. If you have not already started, the two posts you want next are our roundup of the strongest free Freshping alternatives and the step-by-step migration plan. This post is the head-to-head decision framework that sits between them.

What Freshping actually shipped, in full

Freshping's last published feature set is worth restating carefully, because some of it was genuinely strong and the temptation in a comparison post is to flatten it. Per the Freshworks features page, Freshping monitored "HTTP/HTTPS URLs, Web Sockets, ICMP Ping, TCP, UDP, DNS from 10 global locations" (Freshworks website monitoring features, verified 2026-04-27). The free Sprout plan included 50 of those checks at 1-minute intervals, run from all 10 locations, with Slack and email alerts native and Twilio supported for SMS (Freshworks website monitoring, verified 2026-04-27).

Here is the full picture of what a Freshping account looked like at its peak, with the carry-forward hedges from our fact pack baked in.

• Monitor types. HTTP and HTTPS URLs, Web Sockets, ICMP Ping, TCP, UDP, DNS. Six categories total.
• Free plan caps. 50 checks at 1-minute intervals, 10 monitoring locations, 30 multi-user logins per the Freshworks marketing page, and 5 public status pages with custom branding.
• Paid plans. Blossom from $11/month on annual billing (60 checks), Garden from $36/month on annual billing (80 checks), and an Estate tier that exists in pricing references at $72/month though the monitor count is not published consistently (SaaSworthy pricing summary for Freshping, verified 2026-04-27).
• Alert channels. Email, Slack, and webhooks native. Twilio for SMS. Microsoft Teams, Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Opsgenie via integrations. PagerDuty and Discord were Zapier-only, never native.
• SSL coverage. Basic SSL and HTTPS checks as part of HTTPS monitors. Whether Freshping ran a dedicated expiry-only monitor with N-day-out alerts is not clearly documented, so treat it as basic coverage.
• Status pages. 5 public pages on free, custom branding included, custom domain configurable. Custom-domain SSL was paid-only, gated to the Garden plan and up.
• Public REST API. v1, HTTPS only, basic-auth using your org API key as username and your Freshping subdomain as password. Rate limits scaled with plan.

Long-time users were vocal about what worked. From a Capterra review:

"Near perfect freeware version with support. Only free version with 1 min monitoring."
Source: Capterra reviewer, verified 2026-04-27.

What Freshping never had (the comparison wedge)

The reverse of the previous section is the part that matters most for picking a replacement. Three categories of monitoring existed in the broader market for years, and Freshping's published feature set never included them. We frame this as "never included" rather than "could not do" because the documented monitor type list (HTTP, HTTPS, Web Sockets, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DNS) was exhaustive in their own marketing copy.

Real browser login monitoring

Freshping never offered a monitor that opened your login page in a real browser, typed credentials, clicked submit, and verified the authenticated state on the next page. That category of synthetic test, the one that catches a broken WordPress plugin update, an expired CSRF token, or a session-cookie regression, was never in the Freshping toolbox. A plain HTTP monitor on /login happily returns 200 OK while real users are locked out.

Velprove ships this today. The free plan includes one browser login monitor that launches a real browser behind the scenes, runs every 15 minutes, and supports the kind of authenticated flow most teams care about most. For a concrete walkthrough, see how the browser login monitor handles a WordPress login flow.

Multi-step API monitoring

Freshping monitored a single endpoint per check. Real API workflows are rarely one request. You authenticate, you fetch a token, you call a protected endpoint, you assert on the response. A multi-step monitor chains those calls and passes variables between them. Freshping's published feature set never included this category.

Velprove ships this today. The free plan includes multi-step API monitors with up to 3 chained steps. Starter raises that to 5 steps, Pro raises it to 10. For the general pattern, how multi-step API monitoring works in practice covers the chaining model and assertion shape.

Webhook-receiver monitoring

In Freshping, webhooks were strictly outbound, an alert channel that fired when one of your monitors went down. Inbound webhook monitoring, the synthetic-trigger pattern that proves your Stripe or GitHub webhook handler is still validating signatures and writing the right side effect, was not in the product. If your webhook endpoint silently rejected events, Freshping had no way to tell you.

Velprove's multi-step API monitor is the building block for webhook-receiver coverage. The 3-step chain is exactly what we use for monitoring Stripe webhook delivery end-to-end. Trigger a synthetic event in test mode, verify your endpoint received and signature-validated it, then read back the side effect. Freshping never had this shape of monitor.

What Velprove ships today

Here is the 1:1 mapping, with explicit hedging where Freshping wins. We verified each of these against the live pricing page and product as of today.

• Monitor types. HTTP and HTTPS URLs (with per-monitor SSL expiry alerts), API endpoint monitors, plus the categories Freshping never shipped: browser login monitors and multi-step API monitors. We do not currently ship dedicated ICMP ping, TCP port, Web Sockets, UDP, or DNS-record monitors as first-class types. For protocol breadth at the network layer, Freshping was wider; for application-layer coverage (login flows, chained API workflows), we are wider.
• Free plan caps. 10 monitors, 5-minute minimum interval, 1 browser login monitor at 15-minute interval, multi-step API monitors with 3 chained steps, email alerts, 1 status page with custom logo and Velprove branding, SSL certificate monitoring, monitoring from 5 global regions.
• Paid plans. Starter at $19/month brings 25 monitors, 1-minute intervals, 3 browser login monitors, 5-step API chains, and email plus Slack, Discord, Teams, and webhooks. Pro at $49/month brings 100 monitors, 30-second intervals, 10 browser login monitors, 10-step API chains, and adds PagerDuty as a native channel.
• Free plan permits commercial use. Explicitly allowed, no credit card required. This is the one row where UptimeRobot stopped being an option in November 2024, documented in our writeup of the UptimeRobot commercial-use restriction. If you were a Freshping holdout for commercial monitoring, this row matters.
• Honest hedge. Freshping free shipped 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals from 10 locations. Velprove free ships 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals from 5 regions. On those three numbers, Freshping was more generous. Where Velprove wins on free is the breadth of monitor types (browser, multi-step) and the explicit commercial-use permission.

For a comparable head-to-head against another modern entrant, see our Better Stack head-to-head. The shape of the trade-off is similar: free-plan generosity versus depth of monitor types.

Side-by-side feature comparison table

One row per concrete capability, two columns. The Freshping column reflects the product's last published feature set as of the March 6, 2026 shutdown, sourced from the Freshworks marketing pages and support FAQ verified 2026-04-27. The Velprove column reflects the live product and current Velprove plans as of today. Highlighted rows are the three categories Freshping never shipped.

Three rows do most of the work in this table. The browser login monitor row, the multi-step API row, and the webhook-receiver row are the categories Freshping never shipped. If your monitoring needs ever include logging in, chaining requests, or proving an inbound webhook landed and applied a side effect, those three rows are why a 1:1 swap with another HTTP-only tool will leave you in the same gap you were already in. The honest counterweight is the monitor-count row: Freshping's 50 free monitors still beats our 10, and the long-running cap complaint about its top tier was real:

"Even on the most expensive package 'GARDEN' you are limited to 80 checks, which some users find completely useless if you need to monitor more than 80 sites."
Source: Capterra reviewer, verified 2026-04-27.

Different teams will weight that trade-off differently. If you were maxing out Garden at 80, neither Freshping nor a 1:1 free replacement was ever the right shape for you.

What to do this week

With 38 days left before free accounts disappear for good, the work is small but time-sensitive. Three actions, in order.

Export your Freshping data now

Per the deprecation FAQ, only account administrators or owners can initiate the export, and the bundle is delivered as a download link by email. Third-party recaps describe a 48-hour delivery window with a 60-day link validity and an XML and CSV breakdown, though those operational details are third-party attributed rather than direct from the FAQ body. Plan for the download not to arrive instantly. Hit the export button this week, not the week of June 4.

Pick a replacement and rebuild in priority order

Per third-party analysis, "Freshworks is not offering automatic migration; users must manually export their data and set up a new monitoring solution" (Notifier shutdown analysis, verified 2026-04-27). The rebuild itself is fast for a typical 10 to 30 monitor setup. The trap is forgetting which monitors existed and which alert recipients they routed to. Work from a spreadsheet, prioritize revenue-critical endpoints first, and follow the full migration plan if you want a step-by-step.

One safety note that applies to whatever tool you pick. When your monitor needs to log into something (admin dashboard, customer portal, WordPress wp-admin), create a dedicated monitoring account with the smallest possible permission set. Read-only or view-only is best. Do not point a synthetic check at a real admin credential. If a monitoring credential ever leaks, the smallest one does the least damage.

Run both tools in parallel for one week

Until June 4 takes Freshping away, use it as ground truth. Run your new tool alongside it for seven days. If your new tool fires and Freshping stays green, you have a false positive to tune. If Freshping fires and your new tool stays green, you missed a monitor or misconfigured a threshold. After a week of parallel running, you trust the new dashboard the way you used to trust Freshping.

Honest answers to the questions Freshping users actually ask

When does Freshping permanently delete my data?

Free-tier accounts were disabled on March 6, 2026, and the export window closes on June 4, 2026, ninety days after shutdown. Per the deprecation FAQ, after the shutdown, data is retained in the database for 90 days, after which all data is permanently deleted. Paid accounts run to natural expiry, with the same 90-day retention applied from your subscription end date.

Does Freshworks recommend a replacement for Freshping?

No. Freshworks did not name a successor product and did not publish an automated migration path. Per third-party analysis of the deprecation FAQ, users must manually export their data and set up a new monitoring solution. Every migration you will read about online, including ours, is manual.

Is there an automated migration tool from Freshping to Velprove?

No. Freshworks never published an export schema or API that third parties could consume reliably, so nothing imports a Freshping configuration into Velprove or any other tool. The practical path is a manual rebuild from your own monitor list, which is fast for the typical 10 to 30 monitors most Freshping accounts had.

Does the Velprove free plan allow commercial use?

Yes. The Velprove free plan explicitly permits commercial use, with no credit card required. This is a meaningful change from UptimeRobot, which restricted its free plan to non-commercial use in November 2024. If you were using Freshping for a business website, SaaS product, or client monitoring, the Velprove free plan is a 1:1 fit on the commercial-use question.

Can Velprove match Freshping's 1-minute interval on the free plan?

No, not on the free plan. Velprove free runs at a 5-minute minimum interval from 5 global regions on every plan, with browser login and multi-step API monitors included. Freshping free ran at 1 minute from 10 locations. To get 1-minute intervals on Velprove, upgrade to Starter at $19 per month, which also raises the monitor cap from 10 to 25 and adds Slack, Discord, Teams, and webhook alerts. If raw 1-minute coverage on a free plan is the only thing you need, Velprove is honestly not the cheapest option for that single requirement.

How does Velprove pricing compare to Freshping Garden at $36 per month?

Freshping Garden was $36 per month on annual billing for 80 monitors. The closest Velprove tier on raw monitor count is Pro at $49 per month on monthly billing for 100 monitors, with 30-second intervals, 10 browser login monitors, 10-step API chains, and PagerDuty as a native channel. Pro is $13 per month more than Garden was, with monthly billing instead of annual lock-in, three categories Freshping never shipped (browser login monitor, multi-step API, webhook receiver), and 20 more monitors. If you only need 25 simple HTTP monitors with 1-minute intervals, Velprove Starter at $19 per month is the closer 1:1 swap and is meaningfully cheaper than Garden was.

Wrap and next step

Freshping was a genuinely good free uptime monitor for years. The honest comparison: Velprove covers the application-layer monitor types most Freshping users actually ran (HTTP and HTTPS with SSL expiry alerts). It ships three categories Freshping never had (browser login monitors, multi-step API chains, real webhook-receiver coverage). It also explicitly permits commercial use on free. Where Freshping wins on raw numbers is monitor count, interval, location count, and network-layer protocol breadth (ICMP, TCP, UDP, Web Sockets, DNS). We have not hidden that. If any of those were the only reason you stayed with Freshping, our free plan is not the swap, and the broader alternatives roundup covers tools that lean into raw count.

For everyone else, the wedge is the same it has always been. Browser login monitors. Multi-step API chains. Webhook-receiver coverage. Real free-plan commercial use. Five regions on every plan. Those are shipped today.

Start a free Velprove account, no credit card. If you want the calendar version of the rebuild, the full migration plan is the next click. And if you still have not picked a tool yet, the alternatives roundup weighs the field.