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title: "Checkly vs New Relic Synthetics — honest 2026 comparison"
description: "Checkly vs New Relic Synthetics: pricing, check intervals, strengths, weaknesses, and which one fits your team. Verified 2026-06-28."
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# Checkly vs New Relic Synthetics

> A like-for-like comparison of Checkly and New Relic Synthetics — what each one monitors, what it costs at the entry tier, and where each one falls short.

## Pricing and intervals

- Checkly: free tier available, Team from $40/mo, checks as often as every 0 min.
- New Relic Synthetics: free tier available, Standard (per user) from $49/mo, checks as often as every 1 min.

## Checkly — strengths and weaknesses

## Strengths

- Playwright-native synthetic checks — great for E2E API flows
- Monitoring-as-code via CLI and Terraform
- 10-second check interval on Team tier

## Weaknesses

- Aimed at engineers; agency/marketing use cases are secondary
- No visual change detection for marketing pages
- Priced per check run — high-frequency monitors get costly

## New Relic Synthetics — strengths and weaknesses

## Strengths

- Unified with New Relic APM, RUM, and logs
- Free tier includes 100 GB ingest per month
- Scripted browser checks with real Chrome

## Weaknesses

- Per-user pricing model is punishing for shared use
- Data-cap billing can spike unexpectedly
- Not designed for SEO or marketing-site monitoring

## Which should you pick?

 Choose Checkly when Your team writes Playwright scripts and wants synthetic API + browser checks in code.

 Choose New Relic Synthetics when You already run New Relic APM and want synthetic checks tied to the same account.

 Facts last verified 2026-06-28 (Checkly) and 2026-06-28 (New Relic Synthetics) against each vendor's public pricing page.


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