UptimeRobot costs nothing for 50 monitors at 5-minute checks, then $13 a month for Solo ($12 billed annually), $46 for Team ($39 annually) and $98 for Scale ($79 annually), with Enterprise quoted individually. Those are US dollar list prices. UptimeRobot restructured its plans during 2026, so most pricing articles you will find still show a lineup that no longer exists.
That last point is the reason this page is worth reading rather than the first result you clicked. Search for UptimeRobot pricing today and you will get a run of articles quoting Solo at $7 to $9, describing four tiers, and telling you that 30-second checks require an Enterprise contract. All of that was true earlier in the year. None of it describes what you will see when you open the checkout page.
UptimeRobot pricing in 2026
Here is the current rate card. Both billing bases are shown, because mixing them is the single easiest way to end up with a wrong comparison: the annual figure is what you pay per month when you commit to a year up front, and the monthly figure is what you pay with no commitment.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed annually | Monitors | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 50 | 5 minutes |
| Solo | $13 | $12 | 10 | 60 seconds |
| Team | $46 | $39 | 100 | 30 seconds |
| Scale | $98 | $79 | 200 | 15 seconds |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Unlimited | Custom |
Solo and Scale prices in the table are entry points. Solo with 50 monitors instead of 10 is $28 a month ($24 billed annually), and Scale with 500 monitors instead of 200 is $228 ($192 billed annually). Annual billing saves roughly 15% across the range.
Two structural things changed, and both matter more to most buyers than the price rise. A Scale tier now exists between Team and Enterprise, and it brings 15-second checks, which UptimeRobot did not previously sell at all. More usefully for most buyers, 30-second checks moved down from the top of the range onto Team. Sub-minute monitoring at UptimeRobot used to mean a sales call. It now costs $39 a month billed annually.
Watch the currency before you trust a number
UptimeRobot renders its pricing page in the visitor's local currency, and the figures are not straight conversions of each other. Open the page from Europe and you will see euro prices that differ from the dollar list by more than the exchange rate explains. If you are comparing vendors for a US budget, make sure every number in your spreadsheet was captured from a US view of the page, and note the billing basis next to each one. This is where most published comparisons go wrong, ours included until we checked.
What the free plan actually includes
Fifty monitors for nothing is the most generous free tier in this category, and it is the main reason UptimeRobot is so widely recommended. There are two limits worth knowing before you build a business process on it.
The first is that the free tier is intended for non-commercial use. The second, and more practical, is that it excludes SSL certificate monitoring. That exclusion has grown teeth: the maximum certificate lifetime dropped to 200 days in March 2026 and falls to 100 days in March 2027, so renewals now come around often enough that forgetting one is a realistic way to take your own site down. A free uptime monitor that does not watch certificates will tell you the site is broken at the same moment your customers do.
The 5-minute interval is the third constraint, though it is the one people overestimate. Five minutes is fine for a blog. It is not fine if you have written an uptime number into a contract, because five minutes of undetected downtime is roughly seven times the entire monthly budget for a 99.99% target.
SMS credits are the part of the bill that surprises people
UptimeRobot includes a monthly allowance of SMS and voice credits on paid plans, roughly 10 to 20 on Solo, 30 on Team, and 50 to 200 on Scale. After that you buy packs, which run from $3 for 10 credits up to $100 for 1,000. Most countries consume one credit per SMS and two per voice call.
The arithmetic is easy to get wrong because credits are consumed per recipient, not per incident. An alert that texts a rotation of four people is four credits, and a flapping monitor that fires six times before someone acknowledges it is twenty-four. A Team plan's 30-credit allowance can disappear in a single bad afternoon, which is exactly the afternoon when you least want to be thinking about a top-up. If SMS is your primary alerting channel rather than a backup, price your worst month rather than a typical one, and treat that as part of what UptimeRobot costs. The same discipline applies to every metered line in a software stack, which is why teams that keep an eye on what their SaaS tools actually cost month to month tend to catch this class of overspend early.
Is UptimeRobot worth paying for?
For teams that want uptime monitoring and nothing else, it is one of the better value products on the market, and the 2026 restructure improved it. A hundred monitors at 30-second checks for $39 a month billed annually is a genuinely competitive number, and very few dedicated uptime tools beat it at that specification.
The honest limits are about scope rather than quality. UptimeRobot does not do application performance monitoring, real user monitoring, log search or agent-based server metrics. If you need those, you are shopping for a suite, and the comparison you actually want is Site24x7 vs UptimeRobot, where the same 30-second interval costs $899 a month at the suite vendor. It also does not publish a confirmation rule describing what happens between a failed check and an alert, which is the detail that decides how many false pages you get at three in the morning.
UptimeRobot vs Site24x7 pricing
UptimeRobot is cheaper at every interval faster than one minute, and Site24x7 is cheaper only at the one-minute entry point. Site24x7 Web Uptime costs $9 a month billed annually for 25 websites at 1-minute checks, against $12 for 10 monitors on UptimeRobot Solo. For 30-second checks the gap is wide: $39 a month billed annually on UptimeRobot Team, $899 on Site24x7 Enterprise Plus Web.
| What you need | UptimeRobot, billed annually | Site24x7, billed annually | AlertPing, billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan, 1-minute checks | Solo $12/mo, 10 monitors | Web Uptime $9/mo, 25 websites | Starter $24/mo, 20 monitors |
| 30-second checks | Team $39/mo, 100 monitors | Enterprise Plus Web $899/mo, 2,500 websites | Team $29/mo, 100 monitors |
| 15-second checks | Scale $79/mo, 200 monitors | Not sold | Enterprise $189/mo, 1,500 monitors |
| Server and APM metrics | No | Yes, Infrastructure plans from $9/mo | No |
The real question is scope. Site24x7 is a suite with server, application and network monitoring, so its uptime plans are priced as an entry ramp to the rest. The full plan ladder is in our Site24x7 pricing breakdown, and if you only need fast public checks, the AlertPing plans put 30-second checks on Team.
How it compares on price
Against the rest of the category, UptimeRobot now sits at the cheap end for fast checks. StatusCake reaches 30 seconds on its Business plan at $79.99 a month ($66.66 billed annually). Pingdom does not go below a 1-minute floor on any tier. HetrixTools has the same 1-minute floor on every plan including Enterprise. AlertPing reaches 30 seconds on its $59 Team plan, or $29 a month billed annually. Month to month that is more than UptimeRobot's $46 for the same interval and monitor count; on yearly billing it is $10 a month less than UptimeRobot's $39. We think the difference buys something either way (second-region confirmation before paging, and a monthly SMS allowance included in the plan), but if you pay monthly and the cheapest 30-second check is all you are after, UptimeRobot is the answer and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Frequently asked questions
How much does UptimeRobot cost per month?
Solo is $13 a month, Team $46 and Scale $98, billed monthly in US dollars. Annual billing brings Solo to $12, Team to $39 and Scale to $79 a month, which is $144, $468 and $948 a year. The free plan covers 50 monitors at 5-minute checks. Enterprise pricing is not published and is quoted per customer.
Is UptimeRobot free?
Yes, there is a genuinely free plan with 50 monitors at a 5-minute check interval, and it does not expire. It is intended for non-commercial use and it does not include SSL certificate monitoring. For a personal project it is hard to beat; for a business with an uptime commitment, the missing certificate checks are the gap that matters most.
Does UptimeRobot offer 30-second monitoring?
Yes, on the Team plan at $46 a month, or $39 billed annually, which also includes 100 monitors. The Scale plan goes further to 15-second checks at $98 a month, or $79 billed annually. Older articles saying 30-second checks require an Enterprise contract are describing the plan structure UptimeRobot retired in 2026.
How many monitors do you get with UptimeRobot?
Fifty on the free plan, 10 or 50 on Solo, 100 on Team, and 200 or 500 on Scale depending on which tier you take. Enterprise is unlimited. Note the shape of that ladder: the free plan gives you five times the monitors of the cheapest paid tier, because Solo is sold on interval and commercial use rather than volume.
Is UptimeRobot better than the alternatives?
On price per monitor at a fast interval, it is currently near the front of the field. It is weaker where you need breadth or predictable alerting behavior. The useful way to decide is to write down which of three things you are buying: uptime alone, a monitoring suite, or fewer false alerts. Our UptimeRobot alternative comparison lays out that trade in detail, and the roundup of uptime monitoring tools covers the wider field.