Montastic

Name: Montastic
Author: Montastic

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What Montastic is

Montastic is a web service for monitoring checkpoints, with plans that vary in checkpoint capacity, check frequency, seats, webhooks, SMS and status pages. It lists server monitoring and SSL expiry alerts, with notifications through email, SMS and webhooks. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 50 checkpoints, checks every five minutes, one notify seat, one login seat, no webhooks and one status page. Team costs $5 a month, billed monthly, and includes 15 checkpoints, one-minute checks, three notify seats, one login seat, one webhook and one status page. Business is $10 a month, Enterprise $19 a month, Enterprise Plus $29 a month and Enterprise Max $49 a month, all billed monthly. These plans provide different checkpoint, seat, SMS and webhook allowances; the listed SMS allowances begin with Business. Montastic is web-based and made by Montastic. The maker was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.

Who it suits

Montastic suits people who want web-based checkpoint monitoring with server monitoring and SSL expiry alerts. Its range of plans serves users who need different checkpoint, notification-seat, login-seat, SMS or webhook allowances.

What it does well

A free plan includes 50 checkpoints.
Paid plans offer checks every minute.
Alerts can use email, SMS or webhooks.
SSL expiry alerts and server monitoring are listed.
Plans extend up to 500 checkpoints.

What to know first

The free plan checks every five minutes.
The free plan has no webhooks.
The free plan includes one notify seat and one login seat.

Limits

The free plan allows 50 checkpoints, checks every five minutes, one notify seat, one login seat, no webhooks and one status page. Team costs $5 a month, billed monthly, and has 15 checkpoints, one-minute checks, three notify seats, one login seat, one webhook and one status page.

Plans

Plan	Billed and limits	Price
Free	50 checkpoints · 5 min frequency · 1 notify seat · 1 login seat · 0 webhooks · 1 status page · 20 subscribers	Free
Business	monthly · 50 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 5 notify seats · 1 login seat · 50 SMS/month · 3 webhooks · 1 status page · 250 subscribers	$10 a month
Enterprise	monthly · 100 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 9 notify seats · 5 login seats · 150 SMS/month · 5 webhooks · 2 status pages	$19 a month
Enterprise Plus	monthly · 200 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 15 notify seats · 15 login seats · 300 SMS/month · 10 webhooks · 3 status pages · 5,000 subscribers	$29 a month
Enterprise Max	monthly · 500 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 1,000 notify seats · 1,000 login seats · 600 SMS/month · 100 webhooks · 10 status pages	$49 a month
Team	monthly · 15 checkpoints · 1 min frequency · 3 notify seats · 1 login seat · 1 webhook · 1 status page	$5 a month

As montastic.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.

Getting started

Open the Montastic website.
Choose the Free plan or a paid plan based on its listed allowances.
Use the web service to set up checkpoint monitoring.
Select email, SMS or webhook notifications where available.

Verdict

Choose Montastic if its web-based monitoring, alert channels and checkpoint allowances fit your needs. The free plan has five-minute checks and no webhooks; paid plans start at $5 a month, billed monthly.

Questions

Does Montastic have a free plan?

Yes. Free costs nothing and includes 50 checkpoints, five-minute checks, one notify seat, one login seat, no webhooks and one status page.

What does the Team plan cost?

Team costs $5 a month, billed monthly. It includes 15 checkpoints and checks every minute.

Which notification channels are available?

The listed alert channels are email, SMS and webhook.

What platforms does Montastic support?

Montastic is web-based.

Who makes Montastic?

The maker is Montastic, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.

What are the paid plan prices?

Team is $5 a month, Business $10 a month, Enterprise $19 a month, Enterprise Plus $29 a month and Enterprise Max $49 a month. All are billed monthly.

Facts from Montastic's own pages

Alert channels: email,SMS,webhook · montastic.com, 19 Sept 2026
API authentication: API requests use an account key in the X-API-KEY HTTP header. · montastic.com, 15 Oct 2026
API documentation repository: The official GitHub repository documents CRUD operations, links to the live reference, and includes a Python example. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
Check interval: 1 minute · montastic.com, 19 Sept 2026
Company founded: LinkedIn lists Metadot as founded in 2000. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
Company headquarters: Metadot lists its headquarters at 14400 Piper Glen Drive, Austin, Texas 78738-6528, USA. · metadot.com, 15 Oct 2026
Company legal name: Metadot Corporation is identified as Montastic’s maker and product owner. · metadot.com, 15 Oct 2026
Company size: LinkedIn lists Metadot’s company size as 11–50 employees and describes an office of about 20 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
Contract terms: Montastic says subscriptions have no long-term contract and can be cancelled from the account page. · montastic.com, 15 Oct 2026
Current service status: The public status page showed the home app and SMS/email notification services operational and reported no incidents from October 1 through October 13, 2026. · mon.montastic.io, 15 Oct 2026
DNS monitoring: Montastic can monitor DNS record changes. · montastic.com, 15 Oct 2026
False-alarm handling: Montastic says it double-checks failures before sending alerts to reduce false alarms. · montastic.com, 15 Oct 2026
Firewall requirements: The support page publishes seven fixed Montastic IP addresses that customers can allow through firewalls. · support.metadot.com, 15 Oct 2026
Founded: 2005 · montastic.com, 28 Sept 2026
Free plan: Yes · montastic.com, 19 Sept 2026
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States · montastic.com, 28 Sept 2026
Incident management: The status-page interface supports creating incidents or maintenance events and changing service status. · montastic.io, 15 Oct 2026
Independent description: AlternativeTo describes Montastic as a freemium, proprietary uptime-monitoring service with email, web, RSS, and widget status access. · alternativeto.net, 15 Oct 2026
Independent review availability: MobilesTalk’s Montastic page states that it has no reader reviews yet. · mobilestalk.net, 15 Oct 2026
Integration: Das Keyboard: Das Keyboard documents a Montastic Q applet that displays monitored website up/down state on compatible keyboards. · daskeyboard.com, 15 Oct 2026
Keyword monitoring: The API description says monitors can alert when a keyword appears or disappears on a page. · montastic.com, 15 Oct 2026
Licence: AlternativeTo classifies Montastic as proprietary rather than open source; no open-source software licence is stated for the hosted product. · alternativeto.net, 15 Oct 2026
Limit: advanced monitoring criticism: The comparison criticized the product for lacking content-change detection, failure screenshots, email-health monitoring, domain-expiry tracking, and WhatsApp alerts. · novauptime.com, 15 Oct 2026
Limit: check interval criticism: A competitor comparison published April 1, 2026 criticized Montastic for a five-minute minimum interval and said faster checks were unavailable at that time. · novauptime.com, 15 Oct 2026