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Playground vs Procare: which is more reliable? (2026)

Playground is more reliable than Procare, scoring 80.0 vs 42.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Playground reported 0 incidents and Procare reported 1, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.09% respectively.

Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score

Playground

80.0/100

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Procare

42.4/100

Operational

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VS
MetricPlaygroundProcare
Reliability score80.042.4
Rank (childcare management apps)—#3
Uptime (90 days)100%99.09%
Incidents (90 days)01
Partial / major outages00
Avg time to resolve—18h 15m
Outages we detected06
Transparency score0/10014/100

Where Playground and Procare differ

  • Playground reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Procare reported 1.
  • Our own probes detected 0 outages at Playground and 6 at Procare, of which 0 and 0 respectively were acknowledged on their status pages.

90-day uptime

Playground

Aug 5, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no dataNov 1, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago100% average daily uptimeToday

Procare

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026: no incidentsSep 23, 2026: 98.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026: 90.40% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 25, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no incidentsNov 1, 2026: 79.08% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)Nov 2, 2026: 31.19% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)
90 days ago98.876% average daily uptimeToday

Recent Playground incidents

No incidents reported by Playground in the last 90 days.

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Recent Procare incidents

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