Why choose it: IT operations and web teams that need public and private website monitoring across many locations with broader observability options.
Uptime.com: Pricing, Features & Alternatives
Monitoring platform for websites, APIs and real users.
Overall Score58/100
3.6Editor Rating
Market Signal 49#4 of 7 in Website Monitoring by Overall Score
What Is Uptime.com?
Uptime.com combines website and API checks with Real User Monitoring, synthetic transaction tests, and private-location monitoring. It can send outage notifications through email, SMS, voice, mobile push, and integrations, while its integration catalog connects incidents to PagerDuty, Slack, Opsgenie, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, Statuspage, and other operations tools.
Best for: Operations teams that need external and private monitoring plus flexible alert routing for websites, APIs, and user journeys.
Uptime.com synthetic transaction checks run in a Chrome-based browser and can validate multistep paths through JavaScript-heavy applications. This differs from an ordinary URL check that confirms only endpoint availability. Operations teams can pair the journey checks with public or private status pages and real-user monitoring to separate a broken workflow from a network outage.
3.6
out of 5
Editor Rating
Calculated from facts we verified on Uptime.com's own website, using published thresholds. Nobody can pay to change it. Together with Market Signal it makes the Overall Score of 58 that orders our lists.
- Pricing transparency4.8
- Entry cost3.0
- Free access1.5
- Platforms & API4.5
- Support4.0
- Integrations3.0
- Security & compliance5.0
Dimensions without verified data count as a neutral 2.5. Facts checked October 6, 2026. How the rating works
49
Moderate
Market Signal
Real dataComputed from Ahrefs + Semrush data about Uptime.com's own website. Not an assessment of the product itself. How this works →
Market Strength
45
Where it stands today
Momentum
63 Rising ↑
Where it’s heading
Data Confidence
Medium
How much to trust it
- Traffic Strength51
- Search Visibility55
- Authority33
- Brand & Market Presence31
Tick mark = category average.
Compared with 24 tracked Website Security tools. Data through September 2026, pulled October 6, 2026.
Who Is It Best For?
- SaaS teams confirming critical purchase and sign-in journeys
- Ecommerce operators tracking uptime and visitor experience
- IT groups publishing customer-facing status pages
Who Should Avoid It?
- Organizations needing application-source vulnerability analysis
- Small sites requiring only free periodic ping checks
Use Cases
- Replay checkout flows in a browser
- Monitor an API response
- Measure real-user page performance
- Publish planned maintenance status updates
Uptime.com Features
- Website monitoring
- API monitoring
- Real User Monitoring
- Synthetic transaction monitoring
- Private location monitoring
- Status pages
Uptime.com Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website Monitoring | $9 | Not listed |
|
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
Pricing shown reflects list prices as of our last check and may have changed. Confirm current pricing on Uptime.com's website before purchasing.
Uptime.com Integrations
PagerDuty, Slack, Opsgenie, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, Statuspage, Zapier, Splunk On-Call
Customer Support
Help center, Phone, Email
Uptime.com at a Glance
- Headquarters
- Longboat Key, United States
- Built for
- Solo, Small Business, Enterprise
- Platforms
- Web, API, iOS, Android
- Languages
- English
Uptime.com Alternatives
Why choose it: Engineering and SRE teams that want monitoring, on-call response, telemetry, and customer-facing status communication in one service.
Why choose it: Web and application teams that want both simulated availability checks and performance data collected from real visitors.
StatusCake
Overall Score50/100
3.9Editor Rating
Market Signal 28From $20.41/mo (annual billing)Free plan
Why choose it: Small web teams and agencies that want several website-health checks and customer-facing status pages from one monitoring service.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Uptime.com have a free trial or free plan?⌄
Uptime.com doesn't currently offer a free plan or free trial.
How much does Uptime.com cost?⌄
Uptime.com starts at $9/mo (annual billing) on its Website Monitoring plan. Pricing was last checked October 6, 2026. Always confirm current pricing on the vendor's site before purchasing.
What are the best alternatives to Uptime.com?⌄
Commonly considered alternatives include Site24x7, Better Stack, Pingdom and StatusCake. The Alternatives section on this page shows what each one is best at and its starting price.
Last updated: October 6, 2026Details checked: October 5, 2026Pricing checked: October 6, 2026