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Upclock vs UptimeRobot
The volume leader. Popular, cheap, and starting to feel its age.
uptimerobot.comIs Upclock a good UptimeRobot alternative?
UptimeRobot 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
PICK UPCLOCK
UptimeRobot built the category. We rebuilt it for people whose free tier got pulled and whose dashboard still doesn't update in real time.
PICK UPTIMEROBOT
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
- 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 origins4 regionsroadmap
- PagerDuty integrationTeam+ onlyBasic+
Where UptimeRobot wins
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 you qualify.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android apps for incident awareness. Upclock doesn't have these yet.
Mature integration list
Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Pushover are all supported directly. 12 direct integrations plus webhook for the long tail.
Where Upclock wins
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
Upclock's free tier checks 5× more often than UptimeRobot's. On Pro we check every 10s against 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
The Convex-backed UI pushes incident state in real time. UptimeRobot users complain that the dashboard goes stale, and UptimeRobot ran a redesign project in response.
Heartbeats on the free tier
Five heartbeats free on Upclock Hobby. UptimeRobot offers cron/heartbeat checks only on paid tiers.
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