7 UptimeRobot Alternatives, With the Prices (2026)

UptimeRobot's free plan is the reason most people start there: 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval, one status page, up to five integrations, three months of history, no card. For a personal project that is hard to argue with.

People go looking for an alternative when one of four things happens: they need checks faster than 5 minutes without paying $9 a month, they need on-call rotation rather than a notification, they need a check type UptimeRobot does not run, or they outgrow the 5-integration cap on the free plan.

This list is written by the UptimeWarden team; we are the first entry. Every price below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 5 September 2026. Prices change; the page you are reading may not.

UptimeRobot's own paid plans, for reference

Solo is $9 a month billed annually ($10 monthly) for a 60-second interval, 3 status pages and 12 months of history. Team is $35 annually ($41 monthly) for 100 monitors at 30 seconds, white-label status pages and 30 SMS or voice credits. Scale is $65 annually ($77 monthly) for 200 to 500 monitors at 15 seconds. The jump from Free to Solo is where most people pause, because Solo's monitor count is lower than Free's unless you pay annually.

1. UptimeWarden

Free: 20 monitors, checks every 3 minutes, 30 days of history and one status page. Hobby at ₺150 a month moves to checks every 2 minutes with 35 monitors and adds SMS and 90 days of history; Starter at $7 a month gives 50 monitors and tunable consensus; Professional at $29 a month gives 100 monitors at 1 minute plus forecasting and audit logs.

Where it differs from UptimeRobot: on-call rotations with escalation are included from Hobby up rather than sold as credits, and the check list includes WebSocket, gRPC, MCP and heartbeats. Where UptimeRobot is ahead: the free plan has more monitors, and the brand has fifteen years on us.

2. Better Stack

Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats combined, one status page, Slack and email alerts. Uptime monitoring beyond that is $25 a month per 50 monitors ($21 on annual billing), with checks as fast as 30 seconds and unlimited phone-call alerts. Each person who can be paged is a "responder" seat at $34 a month ($29 annually). Extra heartbeats are $20 per 10, extra status pages $15 each.

Best for: teams that want the most polished on-call experience in this category and are fine with per-seat pricing. Watch the seat cost; a five-person on-call rota is $170 a month before any monitors.

3. Checkly

Hobby (free): 10 uptime monitors, 10,000 API check runs and 1,000 browser check runs a month, 2-minute minimum, hard-capped. Starter is $24 a month ($288 a year) for 50 monitors at 1 minute; Team is $64 for 75 monitors at 30 seconds with 12,000 browser runs.

Best for: developers who want checks in code and Playwright browser tests. Checkly is monitoring only; incidents and on-call come from whatever you connect to it.

4. StatusCake

Free: 10 uptime tests at 5 minutes, plus one page-speed, one domain and one SSL test. Superior is $24.49 a month ($20.41 annually) for 100 tests at 1 minute; Business is $79.99 ($66.66 annually) for 300 tests at 30 seconds.

Best for: the same job as UptimeRobot with a smaller free tier and a cheaper path to 1-minute checks than UptimeRobot's Solo.

5. Cronitor

Hacker (free): 5 monitors at 5 minutes and one status page. Business is priced per unit, $2 a month per monitor plus $5 per user, at 30-second intervals. Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year.

Best for: teams whose main problem is cron jobs and background workers; Cronitor started there and it shows. At 50 monitors and 3 users the Business plan works out to $115 a month, so do the arithmetic before assuming it is the cheap option.

6. Pingdom

No published plan table. The pricing page is a configurator that combines uptime checks, transaction checks and SMS credits, from a 10-check bundle up to 30,000, and computes a figure per combination. No free plan; a trial that includes synthetics and real user monitoring.

Best for: organisations that want RUM in the same contract, or that already buy from SolarWinds.

7. Uptime Kuma

Free and MIT-licensed, self-hosted. Runs HTTP, TCP, keyword, JSON-query, WebSocket, ping, DNS, push (heartbeat), Steam and Docker checks, sends to more than 90 notification services, and hosts multiple status pages that can be mapped to your own domains. Needs Docker or Node 20.4+, listens on port 3001, and there is no hosted version.

Best for: anyone who would rather run a container than pay a subscription, and who accepts that the monitor's own uptime is now their problem.

The short version

If your reason for leaving is	Look at
I want faster checks without paying for Solo	StatusCake, UptimeWarden Hobby
I want on-call rotation, not just a notification	UptimeWarden, Better Stack
I need heartbeats for cron jobs	Cronitor, UptimeWarden, Better Stack
I want checks defined in code	Checkly, UptimeWarden (CLI and Terraform)
I want real user monitoring too	Pingdom
I do not want to pay at all	Uptime Kuma, or stay on UptimeRobot Free

If you are staying on UptimeRobot, stay; its free tier is still the largest. If you are leaving because of check types, UptimeWarden's Free plan is the quickest way to see whether the difference matters to you; if it is on-call, that starts on Hobby at ₺150 a month. The Free plan will import your UptimeRobot monitors, alert contacts and status pages with a read-only API key.