An honest UptimeRobot alternative
Upcheck watches every website four ways — uptime, SSL certificate, DNS, domain — on one plan with every feature included. This page also lists the reasons to stay with UptimeRobot, because a comparison that hides them is an advertisement.
$10/month base · $1 per website · four checks per website
UptimeRobot sells a catalog. Upcheck sells a utility.
UptimeRobot is the category default for good reasons: the free tier is the most generous going, the check types run from HTTP to heartbeats, and paid tiers probe as often as every 30 seconds. The friction arrives when you pay. Features, seats, intervals, and history spread across Solo, Team, Scale, and Enterprise; extra seats are an add-on; SMS and voice alerts draw from credit packs on every tier. Choosing a plan is a small procurement project.
Upcheck makes the opposite bet: one plan, every feature, priced per website. $10 a month for the workspace, $1 per website — and that dollar covers all four checks on the site, with alerts to email, Slack, Discord, Teams, or a webhook, and no meter on any of it. Less catalog, less to configure, nothing to outgrow until the 500-website cap.
UptimeRobot vs Upcheck, feature by feature
UptimeRobot details read from uptimerobot.com and its pricing page in September 2026. Their tiers and prices change and display in regional currency — check theirs before deciding on numbers alone.
Five reasons to stay with UptimeRobot
If any of these describes you, keep your setup — switching would cost you something Upcheck does not replace.
- 01
You want free, and free forever
UptimeRobot's free tier — 50 monitors at 5-minute checks — is the most generous in the category, and if it covers your needs there is no argument here. Prefer self-hosted free? Uptime Kuma is the honest answer, with the honest cost: you now run and monitor the monitor.
- 02
A minute of detection matters
Paid UptimeRobot tiers probe every 30–60 seconds. Upcheck probes every 5 minutes and confirms with a second probe, so a confirmed alert can take ten. If your SLA is written in seconds, that difference is the whole decision.
- 03
You need a public status page
UptimeRobot bundles status pages on every tier, including free. Upcheck does not have them, and this page is not going to pretend a roadmap item is a feature.
- 04
Your alerts must ring a phone
SMS, voice calls, and mobile push are real UptimeRobot strengths — metered by credit packs, but real. Upcheck's channels are email, Slack, Discord, Teams, and webhooks; a webhook can drive a paging tool, but nothing rings out of the box.
- 05
You monitor more than websites
Ports, ping, keywords on a page, cron jobs that must check in — UptimeRobot covers them, Upcheck deliberately does not. A mail server on port 25 has no page to probe.
What Upcheck does instead
- 01
A bill that reads like arithmetic
$10 plus a dollar per website — metered daily, so a site added mid-cycle costs only the days it was tracked. No tier grid to study, no feature moving out of reach because you have 11 monitors instead of 10.
- 02
Four failure modes per dollar
Downtime is the fastest way a website dies, not the only one. Each Upcheck website is probed for uptime and watched for certificate expiry, DNS changes, and domain registration lapses — the same dollar, no extra monitors to configure.
- 03
Alerts a team keeps believing
No alert fires on a single failed probe; a second confirms the outage first. A 404 at the root files as a warning, not a page. One alert per incident, a recovery message when it ends. The design errs toward paging you once, correctly.
- 04
Nothing metered, nothing gated
Every channel, every rule, every role, at every workspace size. There is no credit balance to top up before the alert that matters, and no seat count to negotiate when someone joins the on-call rotation.
- 05
Nothing to install
Each probe is a real HTTPS GET from Cloudflare's edge, the way a visitor's browser would make it — no agent, no snippet, no code on your side. Add the websites, point the rules at a channel, done.
- 06
Recovery alerts standard
The all-clear is half the value of the alarm. When a confirmed-down site answers again, the recovery alert closes the incident with the status and response time it came back with.
The arithmetic, done in public
Ten websites on Upcheck cost $20 a month, with all four checks on each. UptimeRobot's cheapest paid tier covers 10 monitors at 60-second checks for around €12. At a hundred websites Upcheck is $110; UptimeRobot's Team tier is around €39 — cheaper per monitor, with the differences this page lists: one monitor watches one thing, seats and SMS are metered separately, and the features you get depend on the tier you chose.
Which model costs less depends on what you count and how many of you count it. What Upcheck sells is that the question never needs a spreadsheet — the bill is the number of websites, plus ten.
What each check does has its own page — see website uptime monitoring, SSL certificate expiration monitoring, and DNS monitoring.
Frequently asked questions
Is Upcheck a free UptimeRobot alternative?
No. Upcheck has free spot-check tools — a website down checker and an SSL certificate checker that answer one-off questions without signup — but the monitoring itself costs $10 per month plus $1 per website. If a free tier is the requirement, UptimeRobot's own free plan is genuinely good, and this page says so.
What is the best free and open source UptimeRobot alternative?
Uptime Kuma — a self-hosted, open source monitor with a large community. The honest trade is that self-hosting a monitor means running it on infrastructure you must also keep up: if the box running Uptime Kuma goes down with your site, nothing alerts anyone. Paid monitoring is, at bottom, paying someone else to be up when you are not.
How does Upcheck's check interval compare to UptimeRobot's?
UptimeRobot probes every 5 minutes on its free tier and every 30–60 seconds on paid tiers. Upcheck probes every 5 minutes and confirms an outage with a second failed probe before alerting, so the worst case from outage to confirmed alert is about ten minutes. If detection measured in seconds is a hard requirement, UptimeRobot's paid tiers serve it better; Upcheck's position is that the expensive failure mode is the team that stopped believing its own alerts, not the ninth minute of detection lag.
Does Upcheck have status pages, SMS alerts, or a mobile app?
No to all three. Alerts go to email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks — the webhook carries a structured JSON event your own tooling can route to a pager if one must ring. UptimeRobot offers status pages on every tier and SMS, voice, and push alerts metered by credit packs; if those are requirements, it is the better fit.
What does switching from UptimeRobot to Upcheck involve?
Adding your websites and pointing alert rules at a channel — there is no agent to install and no code to deploy, so the first probe runs the moment a website lands in the workspace. Most of the work is deciding who hears about what: rules can cover the whole workspace or be scoped to specific websites, and email recipients live in named lists you define once. A modest list of sites is monitored within the hour.
How much does Upcheck cost compared to UptimeRobot?
Upcheck is $10 per month plus $1 per website — 10 websites cost $20, with uptime, SSL, DNS, and domain checks on each. UptimeRobot's paid tiers start around €12 per month for 10 monitors at 60-second checks, and at volume its per-monitor price is lower than Upcheck's; its meters are elsewhere, in seat add-ons and SMS credit packs. Which is cheaper depends on your counts. What Upcheck sells is a model simple enough that the question never needs a spreadsheet.
Does Upcheck monitor ports, keywords, or cron jobs?
No. Upcheck runs four checks per website — uptime over HTTPS, SSL certificate expiry, DNS records, and domain registration — and does not do ping, port, keyword, page-change, or cron monitoring. Teams who need those check types alongside website monitoring are better served by UptimeRobot or a self-hosted Uptime Kuma.
One plan. Four checks. No spreadsheet.
Add the websites you own, decide who hears about what, and let the probes run.