UptimeRobot alternatives
UptimeRobot is the tool most people start with, and for a personal project it is hard to argue with. Here is where it stops fitting, and where it still wins.
| Pingdomain | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 monitors, 5-minute checks, commercial use allowed | 50 monitors, 5-minute checks — personal, non-commercial use only since 2024 |
| Entry paid plan | €9 / month, 500 monitors, 1-minute checks | Solo, around $10 / month billed monthly |
| Price as you grow | Flat per organisation | Tiers by monitor count; Team around $45 / month billed monthly |
| Choosing the check region | Per monitor — Europe, US or Australia, and the result records where it ran | Multi-region checks on paid plans |
| Many URLs in one monitor | Yes — a sitemap or list, rotated, with a per-URL failure streak | No — one monitor per URL |
| Core Web Vitals | LCP, FCP, CLS in a real browser, daily, opt-in per monitor | Not part of uptime monitoring |
| Response time detail | Split into time to first byte and download | One number |
| Team members | Unlimited on every plan, free included | Limited by plan |
UptimeRobot figures checked September 2026 from their public pricing page. They change them without telling us — check before you decide, and tell us if this table has gone stale.
What UptimeRobot is better at
Fifty free monitors. Ours is three. If you want to watch a long list of side projects for nothing and the terms allow it, that is simply a better free tier, and no feature of ours makes up for the difference in count.
Maturity. It has been running since 2010, it has an app, SMS and voice alerting, and integrations with things we have never heard of. If phone calls at three in the morning are part of your process, they have solved that and we have not.
Where people move
The most common reason is the 2024 change restricting the free plan to personal, non-commercial use — which turns a free setup at work into a paid one overnight. The second is response times that do not match what customers experience, because the check runs somewhere else entirely.
The third is catalogue monitoring. Watching four hundred product pages means four hundred monitors, which is a plan upgrade and a dashboard nobody reads. Here it is one monitor pointed at a sitemap, with the failure count kept per address so one permanently dead page does not alert forever.
Moving across
There is no import yet — paste the URLs in, or point one bulk monitor at your sitemap and let it discover them. Keep both running for a week: two tools disagreeing about an outage is the fastest way to find out which one is measuring the thing you care about.
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