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Uptime Kuma alternative

An Uptime Kuma alternative you don’t host.

Uptime Kuma is a popular open-source monitor you run yourself. Uptimecheck is the hosted version of that idea: nothing to install or update, checks from outside your network, and alerts that still arrive when your own server is the thing that is down.

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Why teams switch

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Nothing to run

No server, container, database or backups to look after, and no monitor that goes down together with what it monitors.

Checked from outside

Checks run from our servers in Stockholm, so you see what your visitors see, and every failure is confirmed by a second check.

Beyond up and down

Checkout flows in a real browser, page speed, cron jobs with exit codes and output, servers, DNS, SSL and domain expiry, and email authentication.

Paste your list

Monitors › Import takes up to 200 websites at a time, one per line. Keep Uptime Kuma running alongside while you compare.

How to switch

  1. Start a free trial

    Create an account. The 14-day trial of Professional needs no credit card.

  2. Paste your websites

    Copy the URLs from your Uptime Kuma dashboard and paste them under Monitors › Import, one per line.

  3. Run both side by side

    Compare the alerts on the same incidents for a week, then decide what to keep.

//_03 In detail

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Check each provider’s current plans before you decide.

Self-hosted or hosted

Uptime Kuma is an open-source monitoring tool you install on your own server. It suits people who like to run their own stack. The catch is that a monitor shares the fate of the place it runs: if that server, its network or its power goes, so do your alerts.

Uptimecheck watches your sites from our servers in Stockholm, outside your infrastructure. There is nothing to install, update or back up.

What you get

  • Checks every minute, with every failure confirmed by a second check and evidence on each incident
  • Multi-step flows for logins, forms and checkouts, optionally in a real browser
  • Cron job monitors with crontab schedules, start and finish pings, exit codes and output
  • Server monitoring on Linux, macOS and Windows with a small signed agent
  • DNS monitoring, SSL certificate and domain expiry reminders, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks
  • Status pages with subscribers, status updates and scheduled maintenance
  • Alerts by email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, ntfy, Pushover, webhooks and push notifications

Moving over

Copy the addresses from your Uptime Kuma dashboard and paste them under Monitors › Import, one per line, up to 200 at a time. For cron jobs, create a cron job monitor and add its ping URL to the job. Keep Uptime Kuma running while you compare.

A fair note

We reviewed this page on October 16, 2026. Uptime Kuma is a capable open-source project and changes often; check its current features and compare them with our feature comparison, or look around the live demo.

Plans and pricing

Start

For personal projects and small sites

€4.50 / month Regular price: €9

€54 for your first year, then €108 a year. Excl. VAT

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  • 15 uptime monitors, checked every minute
  • 10 cron jobs and 10 domains
  • 10 status pages
  • 3 members
  • Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram, push and more
  • 1 year of history

Professional

Most popular

For growing teams and agencies

€14.50 / month Regular price: €29

€174 for your first year, then €348 a year. Excl. VAT

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  • 100 uptime monitors, checked every minute
  • 50 cron jobs and 50 domains
  • 25 status pages at an address you choose
  • Client dashboards for your clients
  • REST API, MCP server and custom CSS
  • 10 members and 2 years of history

Business

For teams with many sites and clients

€34.50 / month Regular price: €69

€414 for your first year, then €828 a year. Excl. VAT

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  • Everything in Professional
  • 250 uptime monitors, checked every minute
  • 150 cron jobs and 150 domains
  • 250 status pages
  • 25 members
  • 3 years of history

Halloween offer: 50 % off your first year on yearly plans, your first 3 months on monthly, for new subscriptions started by 17 November. It’s applied at checkout, and during your free trial you can lock it now and pay when the trial ends.

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Common questions

Why pay for monitoring when Uptime Kuma is free?

Uptime Kuma costs nothing to download, but it needs a server, updates and backups, and it can only alert you while that server and its network are up. Uptimecheck runs outside your infrastructure, so an outage there doesn’t silence your alerts.

Can I import my Uptime Kuma monitors?

Not directly. Paste your website addresses under Monitors › Import, up to 200 at a time, one per line with an optional name before a comma, and adjust single monitors afterwards.

Can I use both?

Yes. Many teams keep an internal monitor for private services and use Uptimecheck for what customers see from the outside, together with a public status page.

Where is my data?

In Stockholm, Sweden, with a Swedish company. Status pages count visitors without cookies.

Switching from another tool?

What changes when you move your monitoring to Uptimecheck, and how to switch without gaps.

Downtime is obsolete.

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