Phare
- Free allowance
- Hobby plan, free and with no credit card: 100,000 monitoring events a month with no additional usage, unlimited projects, organization users and public status pages with custom domains and SSL, and 10 AI incident summaries a month; no SMS or voice alerts and no single sign-on
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota100,000 monitoring events per month with no additional usage; 10 AI incident summaries and postmortems per month
- Evidence
- documented14 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Hobby plan, free and with no credit card: 100,000 monitoring events a month with no additional usage, unlimited projects, organization users and public status pages with custom domains and SSL, and 10 AI incident summaries a month; no SMS or voice alerts and no single sign-on unit requests; metered on request-count; The unit is the monitoring event; how many monitors 100,000 events cover depends on the monitoring strategy, and the Scale plan row relates its included events to about 5 monitors. The vocabulary has no events term, so requests is the nearest. Hobby events cannot go past the allowance: it is marked No additional usage. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Hobby has no SMS or voice alerts and no single sign-on. |
| Binding | volume-quota The 100,000 monitoring events a month cap how many monitors can run at a short interval; the event allowance cannot be raised on Hobby. |
| Identity | email The pricing page describes the Hobby plan as for people with no credit card; the sign-up form asks for an organization name, a work email address and a password with a confirmation, behind a not-a-robot check. |
| Egress | not applicable: an outbound checker; monitor data is read back through the API |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a monitor checks a target; nothing is stored per object |
| Retention | unverified: no retention period is stated on the pricing page |
| Interface | rest An API for most tasks available in the control panel, with organization-scoped or project-scoped API keys created by an Owner or Admin and per-product scopes of no access, read-only or read-write. |
| Tooling | the web control panel and any HTTP client with an API key; outgoing webhooks to build SMS or voice alerts |
| Composes with | External monitoring with unlimited projects and alerts on 100,000 events a month, public status pages on custom domains with SSL, and webhooks to chain alerts into other services. |
| Reliability | no throttle, ban or data loss is stated on the pages read; what happens when the 100,000 events are used up is unverified: not stated on the pricing page beyond No additional usage |
| Notes | The Scale plan is EUR 5 a month plus usage, with additional events billed at EUR 0.00001 per unit. |
| Evidence note | documented Plan limits are quoted from the first-party pricing page, the API access from its documentation and the sign-up fields from the sign-up page. No account was opened. |
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Evidence 14
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | the Hobby plan is free and aimed at users with no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby includes 100,000 monitoring events a month with no additional usage |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby has 10 AI incident summaries a month |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby has unlimited organization users |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby has unlimited projects |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby has unlimited public status pages with custom domains and SSL |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby has no SMS or voice alerts but outgoing webhooks can build them |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Hobby has no single sign-on and team members log in with their own accounts |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | Scale bills additional events at .00001 EUR per unit and relates its included events to about 5 monitors |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | the Scale plan costs 5 EUR a month plus additional usage |
| 2026-11-01 | phare.io/pricing | the service is made and hosted in the European Union |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.phare.io/api-reference/introduction | an API covers most tasks available in the control panel |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.phare.io/api-reference/introduction | API keys are created in the control panel by an Owner or Admin |
| 2026-11-01 | app.phare.io/register | the sign-up form asks for an organization, a work email, a password and a confirmation behind a not-a-robot check |