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Upclock vs OpenStatus
Open source, multi-region, and well built by two people.
www.openstatus.devIs Upclock a good OpenStatus alternative?
OpenStatus is an impressive open-source project. 8,700+ GitHub stars, last commit yesterday, 28 monitoring regions, ConnectRPC + OpenAPI + Terraform + Raycast extension, an 8.5MB Docker image. Maintained by Thibault Leouay and Maxime Kaske as a bootstrapped two-person team. The catch is the cloud pricing: $30/mo Starter for 20 monitors at 1-minute intervals, $100/mo Pro for 50 monitors at 30s. Self-hosting is free but you also operate Tinybird, Turso, Clerk, and Resend yourself.
Quick verdict
PICK UPCLOCK
If we wanted to self-host, we'd use OpenStatus. For hosted monitoring that works on day one, Upclock is $8 where OpenStatus is $100.
PICK OPENSTATUS
If open-source licensing is a hard requirement, if you need 28 monitoring regions today, or if you want to manage your monitors as YAML in Git with a Terraform provider, OpenStatus is the better fit.
Pricing, head to head
Cloud: Hobby free (1 monitor @ 10min), Starter $30/mo (20 monitors @ 1min), Pro $100/mo (50 monitors @ 30s). Self-hosted AGPL is free but depends on multiple paid SaaS services. Extra status pages +$20/mo each, white-label +$300/mo.
More monitors, faster checks
~12× cheaper for the same monitor count
OpenStatus tops at 50 monitors @ 30s
Feature matrix
- HTTP / HTTPS
- TCP checks
- DNS checks
- ICMP / ping
- SSL certificate monitoring
- Heartbeat / cron monitoring
- Min check interval30s (Pro only)10s
- Multi-region origins28 regionsroadmap
- Open source (self-host)AGPL-3.0
- Terraform provider
- Monitoring as code (YAML)
- OpenTelemetry exporterPro only
- Real-time dashboard (push)
- SMS / PagerDuty / ntfy
Where OpenStatus wins
Open source
AGPL-3.0 with a complete self-hostable repo, 8.7k stars, 657 forks, and an 8.5MB Docker image. If you need code-level transparency or run in regulated environments, this is the reason to pick it.
28 monitoring regions
6 regions even on the free tier, 28 across Fly + Railway + Koyeb on Pro. The strongest multi-region coverage in the category.
Good developer tooling
ConnectRPC + OpenAPI spec, Terraform provider, CLI, Raycast extension, MCP server, YAML "monitoring as code", GitHub Actions integration. They take API-first seriously.
Actively shipping
Commit yesterday. Regular blog posts. A steady changelog: DNS added Nov 2025, TCP added Nov 2024, ConnectRPC migration Feb 2026.
Where Upclock wins
~12× cheaper for 50 monitors at 30s
OpenStatus Pro at $100/mo gets 50 monitors at 30-second intervals. Upclock Basic at $8/mo gets the same monitor count and interval. To get a 10-second interval on Upclock you upgrade to Pro at $25/mo. OpenStatus does not offer sub-30s at any price.
Heartbeat / cron monitoring is built in
OpenStatus has no heartbeat or cron monitor type. Upclock Hobby gives you 5 heartbeats free, Basic 25, Pro 200. If you run background jobs, queues, or batch processes, OpenStatus cannot watch them.
SSL certificate monitoring
Upclock Basic includes SSL expiry and chain monitoring. OpenStatus has no documented SSL certificate monitor, which costs them deals with anyone who has been burned by an expired certificate in production.
No-upsell pricing
Every Upclock feature is part of a tier. There is no $300/mo white-label add-on, no $20/mo charge per extra status page, and no "private locations only on Pro." OpenStatus pricing has more line items than ours has tiers.
No SaaS-on-SaaS to operate
OpenStatus self-hosted depends on Tinybird (paid) + Turso + Clerk + Resend. The HN thread asks the same question: do you want to operate four upstream SaaS services, or do you want monitoring that works on day one?
BOTTOM LINE