Pricing comparison
Uptime Monitoring Pricing Compared (October 2026)
Uptime monitoring can be free; the price you pay depends on check frequency, monitor count, status pages and who gets paged.
| Vendor | Free tier | Entry paid plan (USD/month) | Minimum uptime check interval | Monitors included | Status pages | On-call and alerting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UptimelyHosted plans per project. Pro includes 25 members. Aggregate outbound check budgets: 10/minute on Free and 5000/minute on Pro. SMS/voice quotas are not published. | Yes — $0; 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 membersSource · | Pro $29/month USD, billed monthlySource · | Free: 60 secondsSource · Paid: 60 secondsSource · | Free: 10Source · Paid: UnlimitedSource · | Free: 1; 1000 subscribers/pageSource · Paid: Unlimited; 25000 subscribers/pageSource · | Incidents, alerts & on-call on Free; Everything in Free on Pro. SMS/voice quotas not published.Source · |
| UptimeRobotHosted monitoring. Solo is the smallest paid monitor option; faster checks are available on higher tiers. | Yes — $0; 50 monitors, no credit cardSource · | Solo $10/month, billed monthly (10 monitors)Source · | Free: 5 minutesSource · Paid: 60 secondsSource · | Free: 50Source · Paid: 10Source · | Free: 1Source · Paid: 3Source · | Free: SMS/voice credits purchased separately. Solo: 10–20 credits by monitor tier; credits do not renew. Email, SMS and voice supported; escalation limits not published.Source · |
| Better StackHosted uptime and incident management. Responder licenses and resource add-ons are priced separately. | Yes — $0; 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, Slack/email alertsSource · | Responder $34/license/month, billed monthly; add-ons extraSource · | Free: 3 minutesSource · Paid: 30 secondsSource · | Free: 10 monitors and heartbeatsSource · Paid: 10 monitorsSource · | Free: 1Source · Paid: 1Source · | Free: Slack/email alerts. Responder: unlimited SMS/phone alerts, on-call scheduling and advanced incident escalations.Source · |
| OneUptimeHosted plans. Active monitoring is a separate per-monitor charge on both Free and Growth; manual monitors do not run checks. | Yes — $0; unlimited manual monitors and 1 status page; active monitoring billed separatelySource · | Growth $22/user/month, billed monthly; active monitors $1 each/monthSource · | Free: 1 minute for separately billed active monitorsSource · Paid: 1 minute for separately billed active monitorsSource · | Free: Unlimited manual; active monitors $1 each/monthSource · Paid: Unlimited manual; active monitors $1 each/monthSource · | Free: 1 public page; 100 subscribersSource · Paid: Unlimited public/private pages and subscribersSource · | Free/Growth: SMS $0.10 each, calls $0.10/minute, or own Twilio; email/push/webhooks free. Escalation and rotation start on Growth.Source · |
| PingdomSynthetic Monitoring entry bundle; RUM is separate. A 30-day trial is advertised; ongoing free-plan limits were not verified. | — not published | Synthetic Monitoring $18/month, billed monthlySource · | Free: — not published Paid: 1 minuteSource · | Free: — not published Paid: 10 uptime monitors + 1 advanced checkSource · | Free: — not published Paid: 1 public status page per organizationSource · | Entry Synthetic: email alerts and 50 SMS alerts; voice/escalation limits not published.Source · |
| Uptime KumaSelf-hosted, MIT-licensed software. Hosting and notification-provider costs are separate; no hosted paid plan is compared. | Yes — MIT-licensed software; self-hostedSource · | — not published | Free: 20 secondsSource · Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: Multiple status pages; custom-domain mappingSource · Paid: — not published | — not published |
| FreshpingBeing discontinued. Prepaid subscriptions may continue to their natural expiry; no new upgrades or renewals. Historical plan quotas are not current offers. | No — discontinued; free accounts disabled 6 March 2026; paid plans cannot be upgraded or renewedSource · | — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | — not published |
| Atlassian StatuspagePublic status-page plans, for communication rather than uptime checking. Private and audience-specific pages are priced separately. | Yes — 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team membersSource · | $29/month — Hobby, billed monthlySource · | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free and Hobby: unlimited email notifications, Slack and Teams; SMS starts on Startup ($99/month)Source · |
| ChecklyDetect uptime monitors and synthetic runs are distinct. Communicate status pages have a separate subscription; page counts are not published in the pricing table. | Yes — Hobby; 10 uptime monitors, 10,000 API and 1,000 browser runs/monthSource · | $29/month — Detect Starter, billed monthlySource · | Free: 2 minutes — uptime monitorsSource · Paid: 1 minute — Detect Starter uptime monitorsSource · | Free: 10 uptime monitorsSource · Paid: 50 uptime monitors — Detect StarterSource · | Free: Communicate Hobby: 20 services, 250 subscribersSource · Paid: Communicate Starter: 25 services, 500 subscribers; separate $12/month subscriptionSource · | Hobby: 0 SMS / 0 calls; Detect Starter: 100 SMS/month / 0 calls; incident-tool integrations start on TeamSource · |
| StatusCakeRegional currencies; a USD monthly price could not be confirmed. Status-page allowances are not mapped to Free/Superior monitoring plans. | Yes — 10 uptime monitorsSource · | — not published | Free: 5 minutesSource · Paid: 1 minute (Superior)Source · | Free: 10 uptime monitorsSource · Paid: 100 uptime monitors (Superior)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Superior: 75 SMS credits/month; email and 15+ integrations. Voice and escalation limits not published.Source · |
| PagerDutyIncident response and alert routing. Uptime checks require another tool. Status Pages is also listed among separately purchased add-ons; confirm the required configuration. | Yes — up to 5 users, 1 schedule and 1 escalation policySource · | $25/user/month (Professional, billed monthly)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: Not includedSource · Paid: External status pages: 250 subscribers; page count not publishedSource · | Free: 100 SMS/phone notifications/month, 1 schedule, 1 escalation policy. Professional: SMS/phone, schedules and escalation included; 5 users per escalation level.Source · |
| Oh DearSolo: $17/month USD for 2 sites, explicitly published in the pricing page’s structured offers. The visible EUR price is €15/month excluding VAT; no currency conversion is substituted. | No — 10-day free trialSource · | $17/month — Solo, billed monthlySource · | Free: — not published Paid: 1 minute (uptime)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: 2 sites (Solo)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: Unlimited, on every paid planSource · | SMS uses your own Vonage API key and secret; voice and escalation limits not published.Source · |
| OpsgenieNo longer sold; closes April 5, 2027. Retired Opsgenie prices and Jira Service Management successor prices are not current Opsgenie offers. | No new plans — end of sale June 4, 2025Source · | — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Existing customers: on-call schedules, escalation policies and incident workflows until April 5, 2027.Source · |
| Grafana OnCallOnCall OSS is archived. This row explicitly compares successor Grafana Cloud IRM and the separate Cloud Synthetic Monitoring service. Execution quotas are not monitor counts. | Grafana Cloud successor: 3 active IRM users; 100k API and 10k browser executions/monthSource · | Grafana Cloud Pro: $19/month platform fee + usage; 3 active IRM users, then from $20/active userSource · | Free: 10 seconds (Cloud HTTP checks; execution allowance applies)Source · Paid: 10 seconds (Cloud HTTP checks; metered executions)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Cloud IRM: no fixed outgoing SMS/call rate limits; abnormally high volume may be throttled or stopped.Source · |
How we checked
We read each vendor’s own pricing and documentation. Latest cell checked: . Every verified value links to its source and carries its own check date. Uptimely’s row comes from the plan caps and check cadence enforced in its code. We publish this comparison as one of the vendors listed.
Trials and retired products are labeled; unpublished limits and unverified prices stay blank. Grafana’s row labels its Cloud successors explicitly. Separate products and per-user charges are identified so a low starting price does not hide a different bill.
Uptimely's Free plan has 10 monitors, 1 status page and 1-minute checks, with no credit card. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial.
Start free →Are these monthly prices or annual discounts?
The USD column uses published month-to-month prices, with per-user charges and add-ons stated. Annual discounts and currency conversions are not substituted. Oh Dear’s USD monthly price is explicitly published in its pricing page’s structured offers. StatusCake serves regional currencies, so its unverified USD price is blank.
Does a dash mean a feature is unavailable?
No. A dash marked not published means we could not verify a current allowance in a first-party source. A trial, a discontinued plan and a confirmed exclusion are described separately. Check the linked vendor source before buying.
Are monitor counts and check executions the same?
No. A monitor is a configured check; executions count how many times it runs, often per location. Grafana meters executions, and Checkly meters synthetic runs separately from its uptime monitors. Statuspage and PagerDuty serve different jobs from an uptime checker.
When is Uptimely the right fit?
Choose Uptimely when you want hosted monitoring, status pages, incidents and on-call together on a flat plan. UptimeRobot offers more free monitors; Uptime Kuma suits self-hosting. Browser testing and broad external alert routing may call for another product.