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Uptime monitoring tools,
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Prices and feature tables against the tools you're probably evaluating, including where they beat us.
What 50 monitors at 30 seconds costs
Annual pricing for the cheapest tier that gets you 50 monitors at a 30-second interval, or the closest tier they sell. Status page and incident response tools are priced for the nearest equivalent setup.
- Better StackAll-in-one50 monitors @ 30s$50/moCompare
- UptimeRobotUptime50 monitors @ 60s$45/moCompare
- PingdomUptime50 monitors @ 60s$50–65/moCompare
- OpenStatusUptime50 monitors @ 30s$100/moCompare
- HyperpingUptime50 monitors @ 30s$24/moCompare
- ChecklyUptime50 monitors + retention$24/moCompare
- Atlassian StatuspageStatus pagesStatus page (no monitor)$29/moCompare
- InstatusStatus pages50 monitors + status$15/moCompare
- Incident.ioIncident response5-person team + status$125–225/moCompare
- UpclockUptime + status pages50 monitors @ 30s, 3 status pages$8/mo
Sources: each competitor's public pricing page as of May 2026.
Pick a comparison
Each page has pricing side by side, a feature matrix, and when to pick them instead of us.
All-in-one
Upclock vs Better Stack
Logs, APM, uptime, and on-call from one vendor. It does a lot, and every part is its own line on the bill.
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Upclock vs UptimeRobot
The household name in uptime monitoring. Free tier rug-pulled to non-commercial only in 2024, dashboard still polls, and per-seat fees climb fast.
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Upclock vs Pingdom
Pingdom invented the category in 2007. After the SolarWinds acquisition the roadmap stalled, the mobile apps were killed in 2021, and the status page still serves custom domains over plaintext HTTP.
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Upclock vs OpenStatus
A bootstrapped two-person team built one of the prettiest uptime tools in the category. It is AGPL-licensed and self-hostable. Its cloud pricing is the steepest in this comparison.
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Upclock vs Hyperping
Hyperping has been around since 2017 and is widely respected in the indie maker community. It has features Upclock doesn't (browser checks, on-call rotations, voice alerts), and a price to match.
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Upclock vs Checkly
Checkly is the right tool when you need to script multi-step user flows in Playwright and pipe traces into OpenTelemetry. If your question is "is my site up?", it's overkill.
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Upclock vs Atlassian Statuspage
Statuspage built the category in 2013, was acquired by Atlassian in 2016, and hasn't changed much since. It publishes status. You still need to buy the monitor that feeds it.
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Upclock vs Instatus
Instatus has the best-looking, fastest status pages in the category. They added light monitoring recently, but most users still pair it with a dedicated uptime tool.
Read comparisonIncident response
Upclock vs Incident.io
Incident.io coordinates the human response to outages. It is the best at it. It is also $25–$45 per responder per month and does not run a single check against your services.
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