UptimeRobot pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
UptimeRobot (uptimerobot.com) is a uptime monitoring tool. Tiered plans priced by monitor quota and check interval, with annual billing about 8-19% cheaper per month.. Free plan: Free: 50 monitors at 5-minute checks, one basic status page, no own domain and no heartbeat monitors..
What UptimeRobot costs
- 20 monitors, 1-min: $28/mo (Solo 50-monitor tier at $28/mo monthly: 60-second checks and Slack or MS Teams alerts (inferred: the Team card lists only webhook, Zapier and PagerDuty as extras). Solo 10-monitor tier ($13) is too small; Free checks every 5 minutes; Team is $46.)
- Status page: $46/mo (Team at $46/mo monthly: own domain plus status page email subscribers. Solo has no subscriber emails and Free has no own domain. Team subscriber cap is not published.)
- 20 cron jobs: $28/mo (Solo 50-monitor tier at $28/mo monthly: heartbeat monitoring is included on Solo; assumes heartbeats share the 50-monitor quota (not stated). Free has no heartbeat monitoring.)
Plan compared: Solo plan, 50-monitor tier, monthly billing. 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.
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).
UptimeRobot price hikes
No price hikes on record for UptimeRobot.
Cheaper alternatives to UptimeRobot
At 20 website monitors checked every minute, UptimeRobot costs $28/mo. 1 uptime monitoring tool costs less:
- Checkly: $24/mo (Detect Starter at $24/mo billed annually: 50 uptime monitors at 1-minute checks, with email, Slack and webhook alerts.), covers 81% of UptimeRobot; missing or partial: Hosted status pages (partly), On-call & escalation, Website health checks, Mobile apps
UptimeRobot alternatives: 2 uptime monitoring tools compared, at every size.
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
Sources
Pricing page: uptimerobot.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Monthly prices were read from the official pricing page with Monthly billing selected and the Solo 50-monitor tier chosen (checked 2026-10-17); status page subscriber emails come from the feature table, and the heartbeat quota is assumed to share the monitor quota. Third-party Solo increase reports (saaspricepulse: +25% to $10 as of May 12, 2026; a LowEndTalk user post of $8 to $13 monthly) could not be verified against an archived official page, so no change is recorded.