Uptime monitoring tools, compared.

Head to head

• UptimeRobot vs Pingdom UptimeRobot has a free plan with 50 monitors and paid plans from €9 a month; Pingdom has no free plan, and its smallest plan with 10 uptime checks costs about 14 to 16 a month. Pingdom checks from 100+ servers and includes transaction checks; UptimeRobot includes heartbeats and status pages with your own domain from Solo.
• UptimeRobot vs Better Stack UptimeRobot’s free plan covers 50 monitors every 5 minutes, Better Stack’s covers 10 monitors and heartbeats with one status page. UptimeRobot sells fixed plans from €9 a month; Better Stack builds a price from add-ons, with unlimited SMS and phone calls once you buy a responder license.
• UptimeRobot vs StatusCake Both have a free plan that checks every 5 minutes: UptimeRobot for 50 monitors, StatusCake for 10 uptime monitors plus page speed, domain and SSL monitors. Paid, UptimeRobot checks every 60 seconds from €9 a month; StatusCake’s Superior plan checks every minute and includes SMS credits.
• Pingdom vs StatusCake StatusCake has a free plan with 10 uptime monitors every 5 minutes; Pingdom has only a free trial. Pingdom’s smallest plan includes 10 uptime checks, 1 transaction check and 50 SMS; StatusCake’s paid plans add 1-minute or 30-second checks, SMS credits and server monitors.
• Better Stack vs Pingdom Better Stack has a free plan (10 monitors and heartbeats) and checks as often as every 30 seconds on paid add-ons; Pingdom has a free trial and plans that bundle uptime checks, transaction checks and SMS. Better Stack includes unlimited phone and SMS alerts with a responder license.
• UptimeRobot vs Uptime Kuma UptimeRobot is a hosted service with a free plan (50 monitors every 5 minutes); Uptime Kuma is free, open source (MIT) software that you run on your own server. Uptime Kuma checks as often as every 20 seconds, but it only sees your sites from wherever that server is, and it can’t alert you if the server itself is down.
• Hyperping vs Better Stack Hyperping’s free plan covers 20 monitors every 5 minutes, Better Stack’s 10 monitors and heartbeats. Hyperping starts at $24 a month billed yearly with 30-second checks from 18 regions; Better Stack prices by add-on and includes unlimited SMS and phone calls with a responder license.
• Cronitor vs Healthchecks.io Healthchecks.io monitors 20 cron jobs free, and its $5 Supporter plan has the same limits; it is open source and can be self-hosted. Cronitor’s free Hacker plan covers 5 monitors; its Business plan costs $2 per monitor plus $5 per user a month and adds uptime checks every 30 seconds from up to 12 regions.
• UptimeRobot vs HetrixTools HetrixTools checks every minute on every plan, its free one included (15 uptime and 15 server monitors), and its API and MCP server come with every plan. UptimeRobot’s free plan has more monitors (50) but checks every 5 minutes; paid plans start at €9 a month against HetrixTools’ $9.95.
• Site24x7 vs Pingdom Site24x7 has a free plan for 50 websites every 5 minutes from Seattle and paid web plans from $9 a month billed yearly; Pingdom has a free trial and starts at about 14 to 16 a month for 10 uptime checks. Site24x7 also monitors servers and applications.
• Atlassian Statuspage vs Better Stack Atlassian Statuspage is a status page product: free for 100 subscribers, $29 a month for a custom domain. Better Stack’s status pages come with uptime monitoring: one free, more and custom domains as add-ons, updated by its own checks.

Taken from each provider’s own website on 2 November 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it there. Prices are as each provider shows them, so currencies and VAT differ.