Checkly vs Treblle
Checkly scores higher on the AgentReady, 85/100 against 55/100. They differ on 18 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.
What each one is
Checkly. The active reliability layer for developers & agents.
Treblle. Enterprise Runtime Intelligence Platform for API visibility, security, and governance.
Where Checkly is ahead
Checkly passes llms.txt published, and Treblle does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.
It also holds understand: openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented and limits / constraints documented. Treblle misses those.
And on adopt, self-service signup, programmatic credential creation and fast time to first request. Treblle misses those.
Finally, on operate, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, rate-limit behavior predictable and agent compatibility verified. Treblle misses those.
Where Treblle is ahead
Treblle passes mcp discoverable, and Checkly does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.
It also holds adopt: official python sdk and mcp integration available. Checkly misses those.
What neither does
Both fail llms-full.txt / full agent docs, no mandatory sales call, idempotency support. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.
Score, pillar by pillar
The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.
Discover. Treblle leads 87 to 80. Checkly misses llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable; Treblle misses llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs.
Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. Checkly leads 100 to 38. Checkly misses nothing; Treblle misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.
Adopt. Checkly leads 65 to 60. Checkly misses no mandatory sales call, official python sdk, mcp integration available; Treblle misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request.
Operate. Checkly leads 94 to 35. Checkly misses idempotency support; Treblle misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.
Pricing
Checkly does not publish a machine-readable starting price and has a free tier. Treblle starts at $233/mo with no free tier.
| Checkly plans | Treblle plans |
|---|---|
| - | Core $233 / mo |
| - | Growth Custom Pricing |
| - | Enterprise Custom Pricing |
Signal by signal
| Signal | Checkly | Treblle |
|---|---|---|
| AgentReady | 85 | 55 |
| Discovery | 80 | 87 |
| Understanding | 100 | 38 |
| Adoption | 65 | 60 |
| Operability | 94 | 35 |
| Public API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Unknown | Yes |
| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Yes |
| CLI | Yes | Yes |
| llms.txt | Yes | No |
| Self-serve signup | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
Which to pick
Checkly clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Checkly and Treblle. Alternatives to each: Checkly, Treblle.
An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["checklyhq", "treblle"]}