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Site24x7 vs UptimeRobot: pricing, check intervals and free plans compared
Short answer: these are not really the same product. UptimeRobot is a focused uptime monitor and it is now the faster and cheaper of the two by a wide margin: 30-second checks cost about $38 a month billed annually on its Team plan. Site24x7 is a full infrastructure suite with APM, real user monitoring, servers and logs, but its website checks poll once a minute until you reach Enterprise Plus Web at $899 a month billed annually. If you want sub-minute detection, UptimeRobot gets you there for roughly one twenty-third of the price. If you want one vendor for application performance as well as uptime, only Site24x7 does that.
Last updated August 2026 · both rate cards re-verified in USD this month
alertping ▸ run check
live
▸ type a domain and run a real-feel check
▸ probes from 3 regions · FRA · IAD · SIN
▸ waiting…▌
queued probing▌
If ever goes down, you get:
Alert fired ▸ 2 channels · 6.2 s after first failure
AlertPing app
● DOWN : HTTP timeout confirmed from 3/3 regions (FRA, IAD, SIN). Incident opened.
sms · on-call
AlertPing: DOWN. Confirmed 3/3 regions . First fail: Frankfurt.
the honest frame
You are comparing a suite against a specialist
Most people who type this query are trying to answer a small question, which is where to point a handful of website checks, and the two candidates in front of them answer very different questions. Site24x7 is Zoho's infrastructure monitoring platform. Uptime is one module inside it, sitting alongside server agents, application performance monitoring, real user monitoring, network device monitoring and log management. UptimeRobot does uptime, and almost nothing else.
That difference decides the comparison more than any feature checkbox. If your shortlist exists because a site went down and nobody noticed, the specialist is the right shape of tool and the suite is an expensive way to solve it. If your shortlist exists because you are consolidating four monitoring vendors into one contract, the specialist cannot do the job at any price.
UptimeRobot is now the fast one
This reversed during 2026. UptimeRobot used to put 30-second checks behind its top tier. It now ships them on Team at about $38 a month billed annually, and 15-second checks on Scale at about $82. Site24x7 still polls websites once a minute on every plan below Enterprise Plus Web.
Site24x7 is the broad one
Nothing on the UptimeRobot price list touches APM traces, RUM, network devices or log search. If those words are on your requirements list, this comparison is already over and the answer is Site24x7. It also checks from a far larger location set.
Free tiers are not equivalent
UptimeRobot's free plan carries 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval, but it is intended for non-commercial use and excludes SSL monitoring. Site24x7 leads with a 30-day trial of the paid product, which is a different offer with a different purpose.
side by side
Site24x7 vs UptimeRobot, feature by feature
Entry rows use each vendor's cheapest plan that a business can actually run on. Both vendors change their rate cards, so confirm anything decision-critical before you sign.
| Site24x7 | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Infrastructure monitoring suite, uptime is one module | Dedicated uptime and status page tool |
| Free plan | Free forever tier plus a 30-day trial of paid | 50 monitors at 5 minutes, non-commercial, no SSL |
| Entry paid plan | Web Uptime, $10/mo monthly ($9 billed annually), 25 websites | Solo, about $10/mo monthly ($9 billed annually), 10 monitors |
| Interval on entry plan | 1 minute | 60 seconds |
| Fastest interval available | 30 seconds, on Enterprise Plus Web only | 15 seconds on Scale, 30 seconds from Team |
| Cost of 30-second checks | $899/mo billed annually ($999 monthly) | $38/mo billed annually (about $45 monthly) |
| SMS alerts | Included, allowance varies by plan | Credit meter, packs from $3 for 10 credits |
| APM, RUM, logs, network | Yes, all four | No |
| Server agent metrics | Yes | No |
| Best for | Consolidating several monitoring tools into one vendor | Uptime alone, cheaply, at a fast interval |
site24x7 pricing
Site24x7 pricing in full, in US dollars
Site24x7 sells several parallel price lists, and picking the wrong one is the most common way to overpay. The website list is what you want if you are only monitoring uptime. The infrastructure and MSP lists exist for different jobs and are shown here so the numbers you find elsewhere make sense. Both bases are given: the lower figure is billed annually.
| Plan | Price | Included | Polling interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Uptime | $10/mo monthly ($9 billed annually) | 25 websites | 1 minute |
| Web Perf | $39/mo monthly ($36 billed annually) | 40 websites, browser checks | 1 minute |
| Enterprise Plus Web | $999/mo monthly ($899 billed annually) | 2,500 websites | 30 seconds |
| Infrastructure Lite | $10/mo monthly ($9 billed annually) | 2 servers, 5 websites | Varies by monitor |
| Infrastructure Professional | $49/mo monthly ($42 billed annually) | 5 servers, 1 app, 20 websites | Varies by monitor |
| MSP | $59/mo monthly ($54 billed annually) | 9 customers, 5 servers, 15 websites | 1 minute |
| MSP Enterprise | $249/mo monthly ($225 billed annually) | Custom scale | Not published per plan |
The add-on question is the real cost question
Site24x7 bills by monitor type, and the plan you start on rarely stays the plan you pay for. Advanced monitor types, APM and extra checks are add-ons layered onto the base subscription, which is why user reviews so consistently describe the pricing as hard to predict as monitoring scales. If you are budgeting, price the monitors you expect in year two, not the ones you are adding this week.
What we could not confirm at source
Site24x7's own pages disagree about the free forever tier. Its pricing pages describe up to 50 free resources, while some older pages still say 5 monitors. Take 50 as the current figure but confirm it at signup if a free tier is the reason you are considering them. Treat the per-plan monitor counts above as the published allowance rather than a hard ceiling, since Site24x7 sells top-ups against most of them.
uptimerobot pricing
UptimeRobot pricing in full, and why other pages have it wrong
UptimeRobot restructured its plans during 2026. Most comparison articles and pricing directories still describe the old four-tier lineup, quote Solo at around $7 to $9, and put 30-second checks on Enterprise. That lineup no longer exists. There is now a Scale tier, 30-second checks have moved down to Team, and 15-second checks are available for the first time.
| Plan | Price | Monitors | Interval | SMS credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 | 5 minutes | None, purchasable |
| Solo | About $10/mo monthly ($9 billed annually) | 10 | 60 seconds | 10 to 20 |
| Team | About $45/mo monthly (about $38 billed annually) | 100 | 30 seconds | 30 |
| Scale | About $82/mo | 200 to 500 | 15 seconds | 50 to 200 |
| Enterprise | Custom quote | Unlimited | Custom | Included |
Check the currency before you quote a number
UptimeRobot renders its pricing page in the visitor's local currency. Open it from Europe and you get euro figures that are not conversions of the dollar list, and they do not match. Every number in the table above is the US dollar list price, read from a US request and cross-checked against a second independent read. If a figure you find elsewhere disagrees, check which currency and which billing basis it was captured in first.
SMS runs on a credit meter
Each paid plan includes a monthly credit allowance, and after that credits are bought in packs that run from $3 for 10 up to $100 for 1,000. Most countries consume one credit per SMS and two per voice call. A noisy week with a three-person escalation list burns through an allowance faster than teams expect, so it is worth pricing your worst month rather than an average one.
the deciding number
A 30-second check costs $39 at one vendor and $899 at the other
This is the single largest gap between the two products, and it is a recent development. Site24x7 reserves 30-second website polling for Enterprise Plus Web. UptimeRobot ships the same interval on a $39 plan. Unless you need the rest of the Site24x7 suite, paying the difference for sampling rate alone is very hard to justify.
Why interval matters at all
Your check interval is a sampling rate, and it sets the floor on how long an outage can run before anyone knows. A 60-second interval means a minute of downtime can pass unrecorded. On a 99.99% monthly target, which allows 4 minutes 23 seconds in total, that single minute is roughly 23% of the entire budget spent just noticing.
When one minute is genuinely fine
Most sites do not need sub-minute detection. If your target is 99.9%, you have 43 minutes and 50 seconds a month to play with, and a 60-second sample costs about 2% of it. Brochure sites, internal tools and anything without a contractual uptime commitment are well served at a minute, and you should not pay extra for speed you cannot use.
Faster sampling is not confirmation
Checking more often also finds more transient blips, so a faster interval without a confirmation rule mostly buys you more false pages at three in the morning. Ask any vendor what happens between the first failed check and the alert, and treat a vague answer as a warning about how many nights you will lose.
the shortlist
Which one should you actually pick?
We sell a competing product, so read the last column knowing that. We have tried to recommend against ourselves wherever the honest answer is one of the other two, which is most of this table.
| If this is you | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You want free uptime checks for a side project | UptimeRobot | 50 monitors at no cost, as long as the use is non-commercial |
| You need APM, RUM or log search in the same tool | Site24x7 | UptimeRobot has no equivalent at any price |
| You are replacing four monitoring vendors with one | Site24x7 | Breadth is the entire reason the suite exists |
| You want the cheapest 30-second checks available | UptimeRobot | about $38 a month billed annually against $899 for the same interval |
| You monitor servers with an agent for CPU and disk | Site24x7 | UptimeRobot does not do agent-based resource metrics |
| You are an MSP reselling monitoring to clients | Site24x7 | It publishes a dedicated MSP price list; UptimeRobot does not |
| You want uptime alone and hate surprise invoices | UptimeRobot | Flat plans, no add-on tree to price out |
| False pages at 3am are your actual problem | AlertPing | Every failure is re-run from three regions before anyone is paged |
| SMS to a whole on-call rotation, unmetered | AlertPing | Neither of the other two includes unlimited SMS on every plan |
where alertping fits
We are not the cheapest option on this page, and we will not pretend otherwise
Our Team plan is $59 a month, or $47 billed annually, for 100 monitors at 30-second checks. UptimeRobot's Team plan is about $45 a month, or about $38 billed annually, for 100 monitors at 30-second checks. That is the same headline specification for less money, and their Scale plan reaches 15 seconds at $83 where we only match that on a custom Enterprise agreement. If price per monitor at a given interval is your decision rule, buy UptimeRobot.
Two things are genuinely different here. The first is what happens between a failed check and your phone ringing: we re-run every failure from all three regions (Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore) and only page when the failure is confirmed, and that rule is published rather than implied. The second is SMS. We include it on every plan with no credit balance to top up, where UptimeRobot meters it and Site24x7 varies the allowance by tier. If you page a rotation of five people, metered SMS is a line item that grows exactly when your month is already going badly.
What we do not do is worth saying plainly too: no APM, no real user monitoring, no log management, no server agent metrics, no domain expiry tracking, and no free plan. If any of those is on your list, we are not the answer and the sections above tell you which vendor is.
questions people ask
Site24x7 vs UptimeRobot, answered directly
Is Site24x7 better than UptimeRobot?
For uptime monitoring alone, no. UptimeRobot is cheaper, checks faster, and is simpler to run. Site24x7 is better when you need more than uptime: application performance monitoring, real user monitoring, server agents, network devices and logs all live in one platform, and UptimeRobot offers none of them.
Which is cheaper, Site24x7 or UptimeRobot?
At the entry level they are close: Site24x7 Web Uptime is $10 a month for 25 websites and UptimeRobot Solo is about $10 for 10 monitors. The gap opens as you go faster. Thirty-second checks cost about $38 a month on UptimeRobot Team and $899 a month on Site24x7 Enterprise Plus Web.
How much does UptimeRobot cost?
Free for 50 monitors at 5-minute checks. Paid plans in USD are Solo at about $10 a month (about $9 billed annually), Team at about $45 (about $38), and Scale at about $82, with Enterprise quoted individually. Full detail is in our UptimeRobot pricing breakdown.
Does UptimeRobot do 30-second checks?
Yes, from the Team plan at about $38 a month billed annually, and 15-second checks on Scale at about $82. This changed in 2026. Older comparison pages still say 30-second checks require Enterprise, which was true of the previous plan structure but is not true now.
Is UptimeRobot free plan good enough for a business?
Usually not, for two reasons that have nothing to do with quality. The free tier is intended for non-commercial use, and it excludes SSL certificate monitoring, which is the check most likely to save you an outage now that certificate lifetimes have dropped to 200 days.
How often does Site24x7 check a website?
Once a minute on the Web Uptime and Web Perf plans, and on the MSP plan. Thirty-second polling appears only on Enterprise Plus Web at $999 a month, or $899 billed annually. There is no middle option between those two intervals on the website price list.
Does Site24x7 have a free plan?
Yes, there is a free forever tier alongside the 30-day trial of the paid product, but Site24x7's own pages give conflicting monitor counts for it, so confirm the current allowance at signup. The trial and the free tier are different offers and it is easy to sign up for the wrong one.
What is a good alternative to both?
If UptimeRobot feels too bare and Site24x7 too broad, the middle ground is a dedicated uptime tool with a confirmation rule: AlertPing runs 30-second checks, re-runs failures from three regions before paging, and includes SMS on every plan. It costs more than UptimeRobot for the same interval.
“Our old tool paged me at 3am for blips that fixed themselves in a minute. AlertPing only pages when all three regions agree it's really down. I sleep again.”
SRE lead, payments SaaS
“I run 40 client sites. One dashboard, one status page per client, and SMS that does not cost extra credits. The math was not close.”
Founder, web agency
“We sell a 99.9% SLA. AlertPing's reports are what we attach to the quarterly review. Our biggest customer stopped asking for proof.”
CTO, logistics platform
30-second checks, confirmed from three regions before anyone is paged
SMS, email, Slack and webhook alerts included on every plan with no credit meter, plus SSL, API, port and cron checks in one flat price from $19 a month.