Why choose it: Engineering and SRE teams that want monitoring, on-call response, telemetry, and customer-facing status communication in one service.
UptimeRobot: Pricing, Features & Alternatives
Uptime monitor for websites, APIs, cron jobs and DNS, with status pages and team alerts.
Overall Score76/100
4.1Editor Rating
Market Signal 73Top-rated in Website Monitoring#1 of 7 in Website Monitoring by Overall Score
What Is UptimeRobot?
UptimeRobot checks whether websites and services respond and alerts you when they stop. HTTP, keyword, ping and port monitors run on the Free plan at five-minute intervals, and paid plans (Solo, Team, Scale and Enterprise) add API, UDP, DNS, SSL and domain-expiry checks, heartbeat monitors, slow-response alerts and maintenance windows, with intervals down to 15 seconds on Scale. Heartbeat monitoring works in reverse: a scheduled job pings its own unique URL, and if no ping arrives within the interval plus a grace period, an alert goes out. Alerts reach email, SMS, voice calls, iOS and Android push, and tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Zapier and PagerDuty. Hosted status pages are included, with custom domains on paid plans. UptimeRobot permits commercial use of the Free plan under its fair use policy, so freelancers can monitor client sites without paying.
Best for: Freelancers, agencies and small teams that want availability, SSL and cron job alerts without running their own monitoring stack.
UptimeRobot separates website, keyword, port and cron-job monitoring into distinct check types. The free plan runs website checks at five-minute intervals; shorter intervals and SSL certificate monitoring are paid capabilities. Its command-line interface can manage monitors, incidents and status pages from scripts or CI pipelines, giving developers another way to handle monitoring configuration.
4.1
out of 5
Editor Rating
Calculated from facts we verified on UptimeRobot's own website, using published thresholds. Nobody can pay to change it. Together with Market Signal it makes the Overall Score of 76 that orders our lists.
- Pricing transparency4.8
- Entry cost5.0
- Free access5.0
- Platforms & API4.5
- Support3.0
- IntegrationsNot scored
- Security & compliance4.0
Dimensions without verified data count as a neutral 2.5. Facts checked October 13, 2026. How the rating works
73
Strong
Market Signal
Real dataComputed from Ahrefs + Semrush data about UptimeRobot's own website. Not an assessment of the product itself. How this works →
Market Strength
68
Where it stands today
Momentum
93 Rising Fast ↑↑
Where it’s heading
Data Confidence
Medium
How much to trust it
- Traffic Strength72
- Search Visibility68
- Authority67
- Brand & Market Presence56
Tick mark = category average.
Compared with 24 tracked Website Security tools. Data through September 2026, pulled October 6, 2026.
Who Is It Best For?
- Freelancers watching client websites
- Agencies publishing status pages for client sites
- Developers checking that scheduled jobs and backups actually run
- Small ops teams routing outage alerts into Slack or PagerDuty
Who Should Avoid It?
- Teams that need checks faster than every five minutes but want to stay on the Free plan
- Groups that need several teammates logged in without paying for the Team plan
Use Cases
- Alerting on website downtime or a missing page keyword
- Monitoring cron jobs and backups through heartbeat URLs
- Tracking SSL certificate and domain expiry dates
- Publishing a public status page for customers
- Watching DNS records for a client domain
UptimeRobot Features
- Website and API monitoring
- Keyword monitoring
- Cron job monitoring
- DNS monitoring
- Public status pages
- Multi-location checks
UptimeRobot Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (mo) | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
|
| Solo | $13 | $12 |
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| Team | $46 | $39 |
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| Scale | $98 | $79 |
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| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
Pricing shown reflects list prices as of our last check and may have changed. Confirm current pricing on UptimeRobot's website before purchasing.
UptimeRobot Integrations
Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Zapier, PagerDuty, Google Chat, Splunk
Customer Support
Help center, Live chat
UptimeRobot at a Glance
- Built for
- Freelancer, Small Business, Mid-Market
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, API
- Languages
- English
UptimeRobot Pros and Cons
What We Like
- Free plan includes 50 monitors with HTTP, keyword, ping and port checks.
- Heartbeat monitors catch cron jobs that silently stop, with intervals up to 31 days.
- Free plan allows commercial use, including monitoring client websites.
- Alerts connect to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty and Zapier.
- Status pages can run on a custom domain on paid plans.
What Could Be Better
- Free plan checks every five minutes and lacks heartbeat, DNS and SSL monitoring.
- Webhook, Zapier and PagerDuty alerts require the Team plan or higher.
- Teammate login seats start on the Team plan; Free and Solo include none.
- SMS and voice alerts need separately purchased credits.
UptimeRobot Alternatives
Why choose it: Operations teams that need external and private monitoring plus flexible alert routing for websites, APIs, and user journeys.
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 UptimeRobot have a free trial or free plan?⌄
UptimeRobot offers a free plan, though it doesn't offer a separate free trial of paid tiers.
How much does UptimeRobot cost?⌄
UptimeRobot starts at $12/mo (annual billing) on its Solo plan. Pricing was last checked October 13, 2026. Always confirm current pricing on the vendor's site before purchasing.
What are the best alternatives to UptimeRobot?⌄
Commonly considered alternatives include Better Stack, Uptime.com, Pingdom and StatusCake. The Alternatives section on this page shows what each one is best at and its starting price.
Last updated: October 13, 2026Details checked: October 5, 2026Pricing checked: October 13, 2026