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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "pulsemonitor",
 "name": "PulseMonitor",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "pulsemonitor.io",
 "category": "Developer Tools",
 "task": "Hosting & websites",
 "summary": "Uptime monitoring for developers and small teams: HTTP, API, port, keyword and SSL checks with incident history, plus a built-in SEO site audit; free plan with 50 monitors and a paid plan for 1-minute checks, webhooks, status pages and heartbeats.",
 "best_for": "developers and small teams who want HTTP, API, SSL and keyword uptime checks plus a basic SEO audit in one cheap tool, with a free plan that covers 50 monitors",
 "skip_if": "you need multi-location checks, phone or SMS alerting, or a vendor whose legal entity and jurisdiction are stated in its terms, or you want the option of a refund on a yearly plan",
 "honest_knock": "The refund policy is strict: monthly and yearly fees are non-refundable, including the unused part of a year, so the $90 annual plan is a commitment. Neither the terms nor the refund policy name the company behind PulseMonitor or the country whose law applies; the terms say only the jurisdiction in which we operate. The free plan checks every 5 minutes and alerts only by email, Discord and Telegram, while Slack, PagerDuty, status pages and cron heartbeats need Pro. The SEO analyzer is a one-click site audit, not rank tracking. We have not used PulseMonitor ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$9",
  "entry_price_terms": "Pro · per account per month, or $90 a year",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-14 in a live browser on pulsemonitor.io/pricing, the home page and the refund policy dated 14 October 2026) Two plans, no per-seat pricing. Free costs nothing and needs no credit card: 50 monitors at a 5-minute check interval, HTTP, port (TCP) and keyword monitoring, email alerts for down and recovered, Discord and Telegram, an incident timeline with uptime and response-time stats, SSL expiry checks, the one-click SEO analyzer and 3 months of data retention. Pro is $9 a month or $90 a year: 1-minute checks, 500 monitors, ping (ICMP), DNS and JSON/API response monitors, webhook alerts with escalation, teams and roles, unlimited status pages, maintenance windows, unlimited heartbeat monitors for cron jobs and workers, REST API access, SEO audit export and 24 months of retention. The refund policy says fees for monthly and annual subscriptions are non-refundable, with no prorated refund on cancellation; refunds are at the vendor's discretion for billing errors, extended service failure or where the law requires one.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
  "source_url": "https://pulsemonitor.io/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "The free plan checks every 5 minutes and alerts only by email, Discord and Telegram, while Slack, PagerDuty, status pages and cron heartbeats need Pro.",
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "UptimeRobot",
  "why": "UptimeRobot is in our dossiers too: Free at $0 and Solo from $144 a year, quoted yearly, read over a US connection on 26 August 2026 and re-checked in euros on 29 September 2026. PulseMonitor, read on 14 October 2026, is $90 a year on Pro for 500 monitors at 1-minute checks with status pages and heartbeats, and adds an SEO analyzer that UptimeRobot does not sell. UptimeRobot is the older, larger service with more published detail about who runs it; PulseMonitor is cheaper on paper and bundles SEO audits."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/pulsemonitor.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/pulsemonitor-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/pulsemonitor/",
  "vendor_site": "https://pulsemonitor.io"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://pulsemonitor.io?aff=6NyDVn",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "pulsemonitor:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pulsemonitor:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pulsemonitor:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "pulsemonitor:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}