Upclock vs UptimeRobot
The volume leader — popular, cheap, and starting to feel its age.
uptimerobot.comUptimeRobot built the category. It has been around since 2010, lives on every "best uptime tools" list, and used to give 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals for free. In November 2024 that changed: the free tier is now personal/non-commercial only, the Pro plan became Solo at $10/mo, and the Team plan starts at $45/mo with seat overage fees on top. The dashboard still refreshes on a polled loop.
Quick verdict
UptimeRobot built the category. We rebuilt it for people whose free tier got pulled and whose dashboard still doesn't update in real time.
If you need the mobile app, want to use 50 free monitors strictly for a personal side-project, or your team already lives in the UptimeRobot ecosystem with mature integrations, stay where you are.
Pricing, head to head
Solo $10/mo (10 monitors @ 60s), Team $45/mo (100 monitors), Enterprise $82/mo+ (200–1,000+). Extra team seats cost $15–$19/mo each. SMS credits sold separately.
UptimeRobot Team plan caps at 60s checks
Enterprise tier only reaches 30s
Feature matrix
Honest line-by-line. ✓ means yes, ✗ means no, — means partial. We mark where UptimeRobot actually wins.
- HTTP / Keyword / Port / Ping
- DNS checks
- SSL / domain expiry
- Heartbeat / cron monitoringpaid only
- Min check interval30s (Enterprise only)10s
- Free tier for commercial use
- Real-time dashboard (push)
- Status page custom domainTeam+ onlyBasic+
- Status page subscriberspaid onlyall tiers
- Per-seat overage on team plan$15–$19/mo each
- Mobile app
- Multi-region check origins4 regionsroadmap
- PagerDuty integrationTeam+ onlyBasic+
Where UptimeRobot genuinely wins
We're not pretending to be the best at everything. Here's what UptimeRobot does well.
Brand recognition
13+ years in market. Listed on every uptime comparison post. Procurement teams have heard of it.
Largest free tier in raw count
50 monitors at 5-minute intervals (for personal/non-commercial use) is still more monitors than anyone else gives away — if the rules apply to you.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android apps for incident awareness. Upclock doesn't have these yet.
Mature integration list
Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Pushover all first-class. 12 direct integrations plus webhook for the long tail.
Where Upclock wins
The specific, quantifiable reasons developers pick us over UptimeRobot.
A free tier you can use for your business
UptimeRobot restricted commercial use in November 2024 with 26 days notice over Thanksgiving. Upclock Hobby has no such restriction — use it for production, just not at scale.
60s checks free vs UptimeRobot's 5 minutes
Even on the free tier, Upclock checks 5× more often than UptimeRobot's free tier. On Pro, we hit 10s vs their 30s — 3× faster, at one-third the price ($25 vs $82/mo).
No per-seat penalty
UptimeRobot Team caps at 3–5 included seats then charges $15–$19/mo per extra. Upclock Pro is flat $25/mo for unlimited team members.
Real-time dashboard
Convex-backed UI pushes incident state in real time. UptimeRobot users explicitly complain about the dashboard staleness — UR even ran a redesign project in response.
Heartbeats on the free tier
Five heartbeats free on Upclock Hobby. UptimeRobot gates cron/heartbeat checks behind paid tiers entirely.