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Checkly vs Yaak
Both do 1 of the same developer tools task. Below is what each says about its own limits and pricing, and how each ranks on signals we can measure or quote.
Disclosure: agathox makes some of the tools listed here. They are labelled and scored by the same method as every other tool.
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Checkly
The only monitoring platform built from the ground up to be operated by developers and agents to give teams a clear signal of application health.
Signals score: 4.0 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit www.checklyhq.comB
Yaak
Your requests on your machine, versioned with Git. Interact with any API using the app or agent-friendly CLI.
Signals score: 3.9 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit yaak.appPricing, limits and privacy
- Free tier
- A: Hobby plan costs $0: 10 uptime monitors, up to 1,000 browser check runs and 10,000 API check runs per month (hard-capped), 6 locations, 2-minute maximum frequency, 1 user, 1 dashboard. Email, Slack and webhook alerts. Raw data kept 7 days.
- B: Free for personal use with no license. Commercial use has a 30-day trial starting on first launch, with no credit card or signup required.
- Paid plan
- A: Prices in $ (currency not named). Starter: Detect (uptime and synthetic) $24/month billed annually. Team: Detect $64/month billed annually. Status pages, AI root cause and Platform bundles are priced separately. Enterprise is a custom quote. The page says save up to 20% on annual billing.
- B: Individual $79 per year; Individual lifetime $399 one-time; Business $149 per user per year. Annual billing only. Currency shown only as $. 50% discount for eligible residents of lower purchasing power countries.
- Signup
- A: Sign-up is through a Get Started link to the signup page; the page does not explicitly say an account is required. The FAQ says no credit card is needed to get started.
- B: Personal use and trial need no account. Licenses are tied to a Yaak account.
- Watermark
- A: Not applicable.
- B: Not applicable.
- Where files go
- A: Data may be processed in the United States. Test results are kept by plan: Hobby and Starter 7 days raw and 30 days aggregated; Team 30 days raw and 1 year aggregated; Enterprise 180 days raw and 25 months aggregated. No retention period is given for account data.
- B: Privacy policy says requests, responses, environments and workspace data are stored on-device and not sent to the company. Operational metadata (license status, app version, OS) is sent to the company. Retention periods not stated.
From each tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them. Sources are listed on each tool's page.
Compare on a task
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- Only Checkly: Uptime monitoring
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