Upclock vs Hyperping
A respected indie tool — polished, mature, and noticeably more expensive.
hyperping.comHyperping is a serious product. Léo Baeckert has run it since 2017 with a clean UI, mature feature set, and a real public-revenue story. The entry paid tier is $24/mo annual for 50 monitors at 30s intervals; the next tier up is $74/mo annual for 100 monitors. On-call rotations, escalation policies, and Playwright browser checks are real strengths. The price-per-monitor at every tier, though, is roughly 3× Upclock's.
Quick verdict
Hyperping is the indie veteran. Upclock is the cheaper one with faster checks, a real-time dashboard, and a free tier you can actually use.
If you need Playwright browser checks for multi-step user flows, on-call rotations with phone-call escalation, multi-language status pages, or simply want a more mature product with eight years of polish — Hyperping is the right fit.
Pricing, head to head
Free (20 monitors @ 5min), Essentials $29/mo ($24 annual, 50 monitors @ 30s), Pro $89/mo ($74 annual, 100 monitors @ 30s), Business $299/mo ($249 annual, 1000 monitors @ 20s).
Same monitors, same interval, 3× cheaper
2× the monitors at 3× the cadence, ~1/3 the price
Hyperping minimum is 20s on Business ($249/mo)
Hyperping has more monitors free; Upclock checks 5× faster
Feature matrix
Honest line-by-line. ✓ means yes, ✗ means no, — means partial. We mark where Hyperping actually wins.
- HTTP / HTTPS
- TCP / SSL / DNS
- ICMP / SSH / SMTPUpclock: ICMP yes, SSH/SMTP no
- Heartbeat / cronshared monitor quotaseparate quota
- Playwright browser checks
- Min check interval20s (Business only)10s (Pro)
- On-call rotations + escalation
- Phone-call alertsPro+
- Real-time dashboard (push)
- Multi-language status pages (30+)
- Status page TV mode
- Per-monitor price (50@30s)$0.48/monitor/mo$0.16/monitor/mo
Where Hyperping genuinely wins
We're not pretending to be the best at everything. Here's what Hyperping does well.
Polished UI, frequently praised
"Beautifully simple" is the consistent descriptor across G2, Capterra, and Product Hunt. Eight years of polish shows.
On-call rotations + Playwright browser checks
Both built in. Multi-step browser flows from $24/mo, on-call schedules with timezone-aware overrides — real capabilities Upclock does not yet ship.
Phone-call escalation on Pro+
Voice calls as a paging channel. Upclock alerts via SMS + PagerDuty (which can place voice calls), but Hyperping bundles it natively.
Indie-founder ethos and responsiveness
Public revenue (open startup), founder responsive on Twitter and to support. The kind of vendor where you talk to the person who built it.
Where Upclock wins
The specific, quantifiable reasons developers pick us over Hyperping.
~3× cheaper at every tier
50 monitors @ 30s: $24/mo on Hyperping vs $8/mo on Upclock. 200 monitors @ 10s: not even available on Hyperping until Business at $249/mo — Upclock Pro is $25/mo.
10-second check intervals at $25/mo
Hyperping only reaches 20-second intervals at the $249/mo Business tier. Upclock Pro at $25/mo doubles the check cadence for one-tenth the price.
Heartbeats are a first-class quota
Upclock advertises 5 / 25 / 200 heartbeats per tier separate from monitors. Hyperping lumps heartbeats into the shared monitor pool — a heartbeat eats your monitor budget.
Real-time dashboard via Convex
Hyperping is server-rendered with polled updates. Upclock pushes changes via Convex websockets — no manual refresh, ever. Visible during incidents.
Faster check cadence on the free tier
Hyperping Free is 5-minute intervals. Upclock Hobby is 60s — 5× faster mean-time-to-detect for free.