UptimeRobot alternatives
At 20 website monitors checked every minute, UptimeRobot costs $28 a month. 1 uptime monitoring tool costs less, from $24 (Checkly). The closest match, Better Stack, covers 95% of what UptimeRobot does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What UptimeRobot does
Core: Uptime checks, Alert channels & integrations.
Important: Ping, port & DNS checks, SSL & domain expiry (partly), Hosted status pages.
Also has: Multi-step API checks (partly), Cron & heartbeat monitoring (partly), Subscriber notifications (partly), Private & audience pages (partly), On-call & escalation (partly), Monitoring as code & API (partly), Website health checks (partly), SSO & compliance (partly), Mobile apps (partly).
Alternatives to UptimeRobot at 20 website monitors checked every minute, best match first
- Checkly: $24/mo billed annually; monthly rate not shown (Detect Starter at $24/mo billed annually: 50 uptime monitors at 1-minute checks, with email, Slack and webhook alerts.). It covers 81% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Hosted status pages (partly), On-call & escalation, Website health checks, Mobile apps. Free plan: Hobby (Detect): 1 user, 10 uptime monitors at 2-minute checks, 10,000 API and 1,000 browser runs a month; no card needed to start..
- Atlassian Statuspage: not offered. It covers 36% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Uptime checks, Alert channels & integrations (partly), Ping, port & DNS checks, SSL & domain expiry, Multi-step API checks. Free plan: Free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members, 2 metrics, email/Slack/Teams alerts; no custom domain listed..
Other kinds of products that cover part of UptimeRobot
- Better Stack (Error & performance monitoring): covers 95% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Website health checks
- Datadog (Error & performance monitoring): covers 81% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Hosted status pages (partly), Subscriber notifications, Private & audience pages, Website health checks
- New Relic (Error & performance monitoring): covers 60% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Alert channels & integrations (partly), Ping, port & DNS checks (partly), Hosted status pages, Cron & heartbeat monitoring, Subscriber notifications
- Grafana Cloud (Error & performance monitoring): covers 52% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Uptime checks (partly), Alert channels & integrations (partly), Ping, port & DNS checks (partly), Hosted status pages, Cron & heartbeat monitoring
- Sentry (Error & performance monitoring): covers 33% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Uptime checks (partly), Alert channels & integrations (partly), Ping, port & DNS checks, SSL & domain expiry, Hosted status pages
Prices at every size
- UptimeRobot: 20 website monitors checked every minute $28/mo, a status page on your own domain with 500 subscribers $46/mo, 20 monitored cron jobs $28/mo (Solo 50-monitor tier; status-page emails need Team)
- Checkly: 20 website monitors checked every minute $24/mo, a status page on your own domain with 500 subscribers $30/mo, 20 monitored cron jobs $24/mo (billed annually; monthly rate not shown)
- Atlassian Statuspage: 20 website monitors checked every minute not offered, a status page on your own domain with 500 subscribers $99/mo, 20 monitored cron jobs not offered (Public pages; yearly billing only by order form)
Every price is for one account owner on the cheapest self-serve plan that fully covers each job, billed monthly: 20 HTTP(S) monitors checked every minute, a status page on your own domain with 500 email subscribers, and 20 monitored cron jobs. Free plans count when they cover the whole job and allow commercial use.
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