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Uptime monitoring and status pages

UptimeRobot

Long-running uptime monitor with 50 free monitors at 5-minute checks, plus paid plans for faster intervals, more status pages and team seats.

Visit uptimerobot.com ↗ Alternatives Free tier EU region
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Overview

UptimeRobot is one of the most used uptime monitors. It pings HTTP(S) endpoints, ports and hosts, looks for keywords in pages, validates API responses, watches DNS records and SSL and domain expiry dates, and accepts heartbeats from cron jobs. Checks can run from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and alerts go by email, mobile app, SMS or voice credits and chat integrations.

The free plan is the main draw: 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals and a basic status page, with no card and, per its help centre, commercial use allowed. It has no login seats for teammates and only five integrations.

Paid plans are about speed, seats and status pages. Solo checks every 60 seconds and allows custom-domain status pages; Team checks every 30 seconds with three seats and webhooks; Scale goes to 15 seconds and hundreds of monitors. It does not do application performance or log monitoring.

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Pricing and plans

Free tier · no card

50 monitors at 5-minute intervals: HTTP, port, ping, keyword, API, UDP, DNS and SSL/domain expiry checks, 1 basic status page, up to 5 integrations, no team login seats. Commercial use allowed.

At the limit Not stated The vendor does not say what happens at the limit, or we have not found it yet.

Plan Price What you get
Free $0 50 monitors, 5-minute interval, 1 basic status page
Solo $11/mo annual, $13 monthly 10 monitors (50-monitor tier costs more), 60-second interval, 3 status pages with own domain, 12-month retention
Team $39/mo annual, $46 monthly 100 monitors, 30-second interval, 3 seats, 100 white-label status pages, webhooks, PagerDuty
Scale $83/mo annual, $98 monthly 200 monitors (500 tier available), 15-second interval, 5 seats, unlimited status pages
Enterprise Custom Faster custom intervals, SOC 2 and DPA review, SLA, dedicated CSM

Annual billing saves about 15%. Solo and Scale prices rise with the monitor tier chosen (Solo 10 or 50 monitors, Scale 200 or 500). SMS and voice alerts use credits: none on Free, 10-20 on Solo, 30 on Team, 50-200 on Scale, refillable at extra cost. 14-day money-back guarantee. Its help centre states the free plan may be used commercially under the fair-use policy. EU region flag is based on its Europe check location and DPA, not an EU data-residency option.

Source: uptimerobot.com/pricing/ · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Monitor types
HTTP(S), keyword, ping, port, API with JSON assertions, UDP, DNS and heartbeat monitors.
SSL and domain expiry
Alerts 30, 14 and 7 days before a certificate or domain expires.
Status pages
Public status pages with incident history; custom domain from Solo, white-label from Team.
Multi-location checks
Add regions (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia) to a monitor with per-region thresholds.
Integrations
Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord and more; webhooks, Zapier and PagerDuty from Team.
Maintenance windows
Pause monitoring during planned maintenance.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • 50 free monitors, more than most free uptime plans.
  • Simple setup with a mobile app and public status pages.
  • Many check types including DNS, UDP and heartbeats.
  • Paid tiers are clearly priced by monitor count and interval.

Limitations

  • Free checks run every 5 minutes, so short outages can be missed.
  • Free plan has no login seats and only 5 integrations.
  • SMS and voice alerts need credits that do not renew with the plan.
  • Uptime only: no APM, logs or error tracking.
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Side projects and small business sites
  • Freelancers watching several client sites
  • Teams wanting a quick public status page

Look elsewhere if

  • Teams that need checks every few seconds from many regions with browser scripts
  • Application performance or log monitoring
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Alternatives to UptimeRobot

Tool From Free option Stages
New Relic Full-stack observability platform
$10/mo Free tier
GlitchTip Open-source error tracking (Sentry SDK compatible)
$15/mo Free tier
Rollbar Error tracking and session replay
$15.83/mo Free tier
Bugsink Self-hosted error tracking (Sentry SDK compatible)
$16/mo Free tier
Grafana Cloud Hosted metrics, logs, traces and dashboards
$19/mo Free tier
Healthchecks.io Cron job and heartbeat monitoring
$20/mo Free tier

All monitoring, uptime and error tracking →

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Questions

Is UptimeRobot free?

Yes, the free plan includes 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes and a basic status page, with no credit card.

Can I use UptimeRobot's free plan for a business?

Its help centre says the free plan can be used for commercial and client projects, within the fair-use policy.

How often does UptimeRobot check my site?

Every 5 minutes on Free, 60 seconds on Solo, 30 seconds on Team and 15 seconds on Scale.

How much is UptimeRobot Solo?

$11 a month on annual billing or $13 monthly for the 10-monitor tier.

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