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The best UptimeRobot alternatives for uptime monitoring

UptimeRobot is the default first uptime monitor for many developers, and its free plan is the reason. The questions start once a project matters: how fast checks run, how a failure is confirmed, and what heartbeats cost. Below are the reasons people look elsewhere, the tools they move to, and one table with every figure sourced.

We make Fettle, so it is listed first; every other entry is sourced to the vendor's own pages.

Updated

Competitor figures checked on 2026-10-25 against each vendor's own pages.

Why people look for UptimeRobot alternatives

The free plan checks every 5 minutes

Their Free plan covers 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval. Checks every 60 seconds start on Solo, whose 50-monitor step is $19 a month billed annually and $22 billed monthly.

Source: uptimerobot.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.

Heartbeats are not on the free plan

Cron and heartbeat monitoring is on paid plans: Free excludes heartbeat monitoring; it starts on Solo, and no per-plan cap is printed.

Source: uptimerobot.com/pricing.md, checked 2026-10-25.

One region decides each check

UptimeRobot's check model is rotation: each check runs from one region, and checks cycle through the selected regions in order; a confirmation re-check stays in that same region. On top of that, there is no quorum: one region's failed and retried check marks the monitor down.

Source: help.uptimerobot.com/en/articles/11358522-understanding-uptimerobot-locations-and-multi-location-feature, checked 2026-10-25.

30-second checks need the Team plan

The cheapest plan with 30-second checks is Team, $35 a month (100 monitors, billed annually; $41 billed monthly).

Source: uptimerobot.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.

What UptimeRobot does well

UptimeRobot does a lot well. The free plan covers 50 monitors, more than most. Its location pool is 4 regions: North America, Europe, Asia, Australia. Its REST API is on every plan, including Free, and it publishes an MCP server too. If 5-minute checks and one region per check are enough, staying is reasonable.

The full figure-by-figure write-up is Fettle vs UptimeRobot.

The alternatives

  1. 1. Fettle

    Best for: Multi-region confirmation from Plus, MCP on every plan

    Fettle checks a monitor from every region you select, every interval, and opens an incident only when all of them fail. Regions per monitor: 2 on Plus, 3 on Pro and Max, and 1 on the free plan. Plus covers 50 monitors at 60 seconds for $7.50 a month billed yearly ($90 a year). The REST API and the MCP server are on every plan, including free, so Claude, Codex or any MCP client can create monitors and read incidents for you. The free plan covers 20 monitors every 3 minutes from 1 region, with 3 heartbeats. Fettle's pool is 3 regions (USA, Europe and Asia), smaller than UptimeRobot's 4 (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia). Fettle's 30-second checks start on Max, $32.50 a month billed yearly, for up to 50 of its 300 monitors.

    Source: Fettle pricing.

  2. 2. Hyperping

    Best for: 30-second checks on the entry plan

    Hyperping's Essentials plan covers 50 monitors, checked every 30 seconds, for $24 a month billed yearly. Its location pool is 18 datacenter regions. Its check model is rotation with confirmation: checks rotate through the selected regions one region at a time per minute, and a failure is immediately double-checked from the other selected regions. Heartbeats are included, and there is a first-party MCP server. The trade-off: each regular check still runs from one region at a time, and the free plan has no REST API: it is on every paid plan.

    Source: hyperping.com/pricing, hyperping.com/docs/monitoring/datacenter-regions, hyperping.com/docs/mcp, checked 2026-10-25.

    Fettle vs Hyperping

  3. 3. Better Stack

    Best for: Consensus across many locations

    Better Stack's check model is fan-out with consensus: every monitor is checked from at least 4 locations, and an incident opens only after the check fails from at least 3 of them. 30-second checks come with the cheapest plan, $29 a month (one responder licence, billed annually, which covers 10 monitors; $34 billed monthly). The trade-off is the billing model. 50 monitors cost $50 a month billed annually. Heartbeat monitoring: 10 included, $17/mo per pack of 10.

    Source: betterstack.com/docs/uptime/locations-and-regions, betterstack.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.

    Fettle vs Better Stack

  4. 4. StatusCake

    Best for: A large location pool and bundled extras

    StatusCake lists 43 locations in 30 countries. Its Superior plan, $20.41 a month billed annually, covers 100 monitors at 60 seconds, and adds 15 page-speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors at the same price. The trade-off: checks rotate, and the confirmation test stays inside the region that ran the initial test. 30-second checks start on Business, $66.66 a month billed annually.

    Source: statuscake.com/locations, statuscake.com/pricing, statuscake.com/kb/knowledge-base/statuscake-uptime-monitoring-regions-and-confirmation-servers-a-complete-guide, checked 2026-10-25.

    Fettle vs StatusCake

  5. 5. Checkly

    Best for: Teams that test as code

    Checkly's Starter plan covers 50 monitors at 60 seconds for $24 a month billed annually. It ships a REST API, a CLI and an MCP server, and it runs cron and heartbeat checks. Its check model is rotation (round robin) (uptime monitors run round robin, one selected location per scheduled run, on Hobby, Starter and Team; parallel scheduling for uptime monitors is listed for Enterprise only). The trade-off: 30-second checks start on Team, $64 a month billed annually. Starter's history retention is 7 days raw, 30 days aggregated.

    Source: checklyhq.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.

  6. 6. Cronitor

    Best for: Cron jobs first, uptime second

    Heartbeats are the core of Cronitor's product, and it keeps 12 months of history. Its Business plan checks as often as every 30 seconds from a pool of 12+ locations. The trade-off is pricing by the unit: $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, so the bill grows with every heartbeat you add.

    Source: cronitor.io/pricing, cronitor.io/uptime-monitoring, checked 2026-10-25.

  7. 7. Uptime Kuma

    Best for: Self-hosting, with no subscription

    Uptime Kuma is open source under the MIT licence and runs on a server you operate, so the only bill is that server's. It checks as often as every 20 seconds, ships multiple status pages and a Push monitor type for jobs that report in, and alerts through 90+ notification services. The trade-off: every check runs from that one server, so when the server or its network fails, the monitoring goes down with it, and keeping it updated is your job.

    Source: github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma, checked 2026-10-25.

  8. 8. Pulsetic

    Best for: 30-second checks on a mid-priced plan

    Pulsetic's Team plan covers 50 monitors at a 30-second interval with 15 region checks, for $19 a month or $190 a year. Solo is $9 a month for 10 monitors at 60-second checks, and the free plan covers 10 monitors every 5 minutes. Heartbeats count against the same monitor allowance. The trade-off: Free has no API access, since the REST API and the MCP server start on Solo, and each monitor past a plan's allowance is $0.20 a month.

    Source: pulsetic.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.

  9. 9. OpenStatus

    Best for: Open source, status page first

    OpenStatus is open source under AGPL-3.0, and its hosted plans check from a pool of 28 regions. Starter is $30 a month for 20 monitors at a 1-minute interval, from up to 6 regions per monitor. Pro is $100 a month for 50 monitors at a 30-second interval from every region. Billed yearly, Starter is $300 a year ($25/mo). The trade-off is price: more monitors cost $15 a month per 10 monitors, and the free Hobby plan covers 1 monitor.

    Source: github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus, openstatus.dev/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.

Side by side

Two Fettle plans, UptimeRobot, and every tool on the list that has a full column in our comparison data. Every competitor cell is from the vendor's own pricing page or documentation. Uptime Kuma, Pulsetic and OpenStatus have no column there, so their figures and sources sit in their entries above.

Scroll the table to see every tool and column.

Tool50 monitors, $/mo billed yearlyShortest interval on that planCheapest plan with 30-second checksCheck modelStatus pagesHeartbeat / cron monitoringREST API
Fettle Plus$7.50 Plus, $90 billed yearly — 50 monitors 60 seconds $32.50 on Max Fan-out every selected region checks the monitor every interval 1 20 On every plan, including free 30 to 300 requests per minute by tier
Fettle Max$32.50 $390 billed yearly — includes 300 monitors 30 seconds on up to 50 monitors; 60 seconds on the rest This plan Fan-out every selected region checks the monitor every interval 10 150 On every plan, including free 30 to 300 requests per minute by tier
UptimeRobot$0 on Free, $19 on Solo the Free plan covers 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval; Solo's 50-monitor step, reached with the Monitor tier toggle, is $19/mo billed annually and $22 billed monthly, and checks every 60 seconds 60 seconds on Solo; the Free plan checks every 5 minutes, and Scale reaches a 15-second floor at $65/mo billed annually ($77 monthly) for 200 monitors Team, $35 100 monitors, billed annually; $41 billed monthly Rotation each check runs from one region, and checks cycle through the selected regions in order; a confirmation re-check stays in that same region 1 / 3 / 100 / unlimited Free / Solo / Team / Scale On paid plans Free excludes heartbeat monitoring; it starts on Solo, and no per-plan cap is printed On every plan, including Free the platform API that manages monitors and incidents; API monitoring, a monitor type, is a separate feature that starts on Solo. They also publish an MCP server, in their top navigation, whose write actions create, update, pause and resume monitors; which plans carry it is not stated
Hyperping$24 Essentials, billed yearly, which covers 50 monitors; $29 billed monthly 30 seconds on Essentials; Business goes to 20 seconds Essentials, $24 50 monitors, billed yearly Rotation with confirmation checks rotate through the selected regions one region at a time per minute, and a failure is immediately double-checked from the other selected regions 1 on Essentials; the grid is 1 / 1 / 3 / 10 across Free, Essentials, Pro and Business Yes On every paid plan plus a first-party MCP server, listed on Essentials, Pro and Business but not Free, and documented as 49 tools: 28 read and 21 write. The write tools create, update, pause and resume monitors and manage outages, status pages and maintenance; delete_monitor is deliberately not exposed
Better Stack$50 billed annually: $29 per responder licence, which carries 10 monitors, plus $21 for a pack of 50 more; a second responder adds another $29, and the monthly-billed rates are $34 and $25 30 seconds published as the check-frequency ceiling; the page names no uptime tiers $29 one responder licence, billed annually, which covers 10 monitors; $34 billed monthly Fan-out with consensus every monitor is checked from at least 4 locations, and an incident opens only after the check fails from at least 3 of them 1 included, $12/mo for each further one 10 included, $17/mo per pack of 10 Yes
StatusCake$20.41 Superior, billed annually, which covers 100 monitors; $24.49 billed monthly 60 seconds on Superior Business, $66.66 300 monitors, billed annually; $79.99 billed monthly Rotation when no region is pinned, a server is picked at random from any monitoring region for the initial test; confirmation tests come from other servers in that same region Not published the pricing grid prints no count; the product does have status pages Not published their pricing grid says nothing about heartbeat or cron monitoring either way Yes documented; which plans include it is not printed
Checkly$24 Starter, billed annually, which covers 50 monitors; a further 25 cost $8 60 seconds on Starter; Hobby is 2 minutes, Team 30 seconds and Enterprise 1 second Team, $64 75 monitors, billed annually Rotation (round robin) uptime monitors run round robin, one selected location per scheduled run, on Hobby, Starter and Team; parallel scheduling for uptime monitors is listed for Enterprise only Add-on at $9/mo: 25 services, 500 subscribers on Starter, billed annually; the add-on is $30/mo on Team Yes cron and heartbeat checks Yes plus a CLI and an MCP server
Cronitor$100 by our own arithmetic Cronitor publish no bundle price: Business is $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, billed monthly on actual usage, and they advertise volume discounts without printing them. 50 × $2 is ours to compute; it excludes the per-user fee and any discount, so their real invoice for 50 monitors is not this number Cronitor does not print this figure; it is our own, worked out from what they do publish.30 seconds on Business and on Enterprise alike; the free Hacker plan's floor is 5 minutes $2 per monitor the Business rate, and Business is the plan a 30-second interval requires; the free Hacker plan stops at 5 minutes Not published the only statement, on their uptime product page, is that downtime is verified by at least one additional region before an alert, which describes a fan-out and a rotation equally well 1 basic; branded $25/mo, private $50/mo Core of the product no cap on Business, where each heartbeat bills as a monitor at $2/mo; the Hacker plan caps at 5 Yes unlimited API requests

Questions

Is there a free alternative to UptimeRobot?
Yes. Fettle's free plan covers 20 monitors every 3 minutes from 1 region, with 3 heartbeats, the REST API and the MCP server, and no card. UptimeRobot's own Free plan covers more monitors, 50, but checks every 5 minutes and leaves out heartbeats. Cronitor's free Hacker plan checks at most every 5 minutes.
Which UptimeRobot alternative confirms a failure from more than one region?
Fettle checks from every region you select each interval and opens an incident only when all of them fail. Regions per monitor: 2 on Plus, 3 on Pro and Max, and 1 on the free plan. Better Stack: every monitor is checked from at least 4 locations, and an incident opens only after the check fails from at least 3 of them. Hyperping double-checks a failure from your other selected regions. UptimeRobot runs each check from one region, and there is no quorum: one region's failed and retried check marks the monitor down.
Which alternatives can an AI agent manage?
Fettle's MCP server is on every plan, including free, over a hosted endpoint or the fettle-mcp npm package. Hyperping and Checkly publish MCP servers too, and so does UptimeRobot itself. What differs is which plans include them and what an agent may change.
How do I move my monitors off UptimeRobot?
Recreate them in the new tool. In Fettle, the API and the MCP server create up to 100 monitors in one all-or-nothing call, so a list of URLs becomes monitors in one request, or in one sentence to Claude or Codex.

Sources

Prices change without notice. Check each vendor's pricing page before deciding.

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