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Uptime monitoring pricing compared with what 15 uptime monitoring tools cost in 2026
Short answer: entry-level uptime monitoring for a business runs roughly $9 to $29 a month in the United States, and most vendors sell that price against a monitor count. The number that actually decides your bill is the check interval. Getting below a minute costs $59 a month here, $46 at UptimeRobot, $66.66 at StatusCake, $249 at Hyperping for 20 seconds, and $999 at Site24x7. Pingdom and HetrixTools cannot go below one minute at any price. Every figure below is in US dollars with its billing basis stated.
prices reconciled against US listings, not local-currency vendor pages
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read this first
Half the price comparisons on the web are quoting the wrong currency
Several monitoring vendors render their pricing page in the visitor's local currency, and the local number is not a straight conversion of the dollar one. Load UptimeRobot from a European address and the Solo plan reads €9 a month billed annually; load it from the United States and it reads $12. A comparison written by someone sitting in Frankfurt will quietly publish euro figures under a dollar sign, and those numbers then get copied around.
The second trap is billing basis. Vendors advertise the annual rate in large type and the monthly rate in small type, so a table that mixes the two makes one tool look half the price of another when they are within a dollar of each other. Pingdom's 10-check plan is $18 a month billed monthly and $16.50 a month billed annually. Both numbers are true. Putting the $16.50 next to a competitor's monthly figure is not.
Every price on this page says which basis it uses. Where a vendor blocks automated access to its pricing page or publishes no rate at all, we say that instead of guessing.
the price list
Uptime monitoring pricing, 15 tools, US dollars
Entry price means the cheapest plan a business can actually use, not the cheapest plan on the page. Where a free tier forbids commercial use or omits SSL checks, that is noted rather than counted.
| Tool | Free plan | Entry paid price | Monitors | Fastest interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlertPing | No, trial only | $49/mo billed monthly ($24 billed yearly) | 20 | 15 s on Enterprise, 30 s from $59 |
| UptimeRobot | Yes, 50 monitors at 5 min, non-commercial, no SSL | Solo $12/mo billed annually ($13 monthly) | 10 | 15 s on Scale, $98/mo ($79 billed annually) |
| StatusCake | Yes, 10 tests at 5 min, SSL included | Superior $20.41/mo billed annually ($24.49 monthly) | 100 | 30 s on Business, $66.66/mo annually |
| Better Stack | Yes, 10 monitors and 10 heartbeats at 3 min | About $29/mo for uptime plus one responder | 10, then blocks of 50 | 30 s |
| Pingdom | No | $16.50/mo billed annually ($18 monthly) | 10 checks | 1 min, floor on every tier |
| HetrixTools | Yes, lifetime, 15 uptime and 15 server monitors | Professional $9.95/mo monthly ($8.29 annually) | Not confirmed at source | 1 min, floor on every tier |
| Site24x7 | Yes, 50 monitors | Web Uptime $10/mo | 50 | 30 s on Enterprise Plus, $999/mo |
| Uptime.com | No | Website Monitoring $9/mo for 10 checks ($84 billed yearly) | 10 | 1 min on every tier, no faster option |
| Hyperping | Yes, 20 monitors at 5 min | Essentials $24/mo billed annually ($29 monthly) | 50 | 20 s on Business, $249/mo annually |
| Pulsetic | Yes | Solo $9/mo billed monthly | Not published per tier | Not published per tier |
| Healthchecks.io | Yes, 20 jobs | Business $20/mo | 100 jobs | Heartbeats only, no polling |
| Checkly | Yes, Hobby | Starter $24/mo billed annually | Usage based | 10 s |
| Datadog Synthetics | No | From about $5 per 10,000 API test runs | Usage based | 30 s |
| Postman Monitors | Yes | Solo $9 per user per month | Per user | 1 min |
| AlertBot | No | No published rate, listings suggest about $40/mo | Not published | Not published |
Figures are read from each vendor's pricing page. HetrixTools and Pulsetic block automated access to their pricing pages, so those rows are reconciled from independent US software listings and vendor documentation rather than read off the rate card. Vendors change list prices without notice. Confirm anything decision-critical on the vendor's own page before you buy.
what actually drives the bill
The sticker price is set by monitor count. The invoice is set by check interval.
Every vendor above advertises against a monitor count, because that is the number buyers compare. It is rarely the number that decides what you pay. Most teams have somewhere between 5 and 40 things worth watching, which fits inside almost every entry plan on the market. What pushes them up the price list is the interval, and the jump is not gradual. At several vendors, moving from a one-minute check to a 30-second check costs three to fifty times more.
So the useful question is not "what does uptime monitoring cost". It is "what does the interval I need cost at each vendor". Here is that table.
| Interval you need | Cheapest plan that reaches it | What it costs |
|---|---|---|
| 5 minutes | Several free tiers, including UptimeRobot, StatusCake and Hyperping | $0, with commercial-use and SSL caveats |
| 1 minute | Pingdom at 10 checks, HetrixTools Professional, StatusCake Superior, AlertPing at 60 s | $8.29 to $20.41 a month |
| 30 seconds | StatusCake Business, AlertPing Team, Better Stack, UptimeRobot Team | $39 to $66.66 a month |
| 30 seconds at Site24x7 | Enterprise Plus, the top plan | $999 a month |
| 20 seconds | Hyperping Business | $249 a month billed annually |
| 15 seconds | UptimeRobot Scale, AlertPing Enterprise | $79 a month billed annually, or $189 a month billed annually |
| 10 seconds | Checkly Starter | $24 a month billed annually |
| Below 1 minute at Pingdom or HetrixTools | Not available on any plan | Not purchasable |
Work out the interval you need first
Your check interval sets the floor on how long an outage can run before anyone knows. A five-minute interval means a five-minute blind spot in the worst case, before any human reacts. If you have committed to a 99.9% target, that is 43 minutes and 50 seconds of budget for a whole average month, so a single unlucky five-minute blind spot spends more than a tenth of it on detection alone.
Then check whether the vendor can sell it
Two well-known tools cannot go below a minute at any price. Pingdom holds a one-minute floor at every plan size, from 10 checks to 30,000. HetrixTools holds the same floor from its free plan through Enterprise. Neither is a bad product, but if your requirement is sub-minute detection, no amount of budget moves them.
Only then compare the monthly number
Once you have the shortlist that can technically do the job, price becomes a fair comparison. Doing it in the other order is how teams end up on a $999 plan to get a capability that costs $39 elsewhere, or on a $10 plan that structurally cannot meet the SLA they signed.
five billing models
These tools are not priced the same way, so the cheapest one depends on your shape
A per-monitor plan and a per-check plan can produce the same invoice for one team and a tenfold difference for another. Find your shape here before you compare numbers.
1. Flat tiers, priced by monitor count
AlertPing, StatusCake, Pingdom, Site24x7, Uptime.com, Hyperping, Pulsetic, HetrixTools and UptimeRobot. You buy a bucket of monitors and a check interval, and the bill is the same every month regardless of how many alerts fire or how many people receive them. This is the easiest model to forecast, and it is the one finance teams prefer. The risk is buying a tier you only need for one capability.
2. Capacity blocks on top of a base
Better Stack. The base covers a small allowance and you add blocks: roughly $25 a month per 50 monitors billed monthly, or about $21 billed yearly, plus responder licences and separate modules for logs and incident management. Cheap at ten monitors and one engineer. It grows along two axes at once as soon as the team and the estate both expand.
3. Metered by check volume
Datadog Synthetics, from around $5 per 10,000 API test runs. This is the model where the check interval directly multiplies the bill, because halving the interval doubles the runs. One monitor at 30 seconds is about 87,600 runs a month. Ten of them is 876,000. Usage billing is excellent for bursty or short-lived checks and punishing for a permanent fleet.
4. Per seat
Postman Monitors, at $9 to $49 per user per month. Sensible if monitoring lives with two API engineers, expensive if the whole team needs a login. Watch for the version of this that shows up in incident tooling, where a responder licence is charged per person on the rotation and a growing on-call roster quietly becomes the largest line on the invoice.
5. Per subscriber, for status pages
Atlassian Statuspage prices public pages by how many people subscribe to updates: $0 for 100 subscribers, $29 for 250, $99 for 1,000, $399 for 5,000. Private pages are a second subscription starting at $79, and audience-specific pages are a third list starting around $300. Worth knowing that Statuspage performs no monitoring at all, so it is an addition to a monitoring bill rather than a replacement for one. We break the category down in status page pricing.
6. Alert credits hide in all five
SMS and voice are frequently metered separately from the plan. HetrixTools charges a flat $0.10 per credit beyond a monthly allowance, and one credit is consumed per phone number per notification, so paging three people costs three credits. StatusCake includes 75 SMS credits on Superior and 400 on Business. Pulsetic runs a shared credit bundle with $0.10 overage. A bad month is exactly when this line grows.
the second invoice
Six costs that are real and are not on the pricing page
SMS and voice overage
Metered per recipient per notification at several vendors. Multiply your on-call roster by your realistic incident count before assuming the allowance covers you.
A custom domain on your status page
Frequently gated to a higher tier than the one you would otherwise buy. Ours sits on Business at $189 a month, and we would rather say so here than let you find out at checkout.
Blacklist, domain expiry and server agents
Often a separate subscription rather than an add-on. HetrixTools sells blacklist monitoring on its own price list. We do not offer any of these three at all.
Responder and seat licences
In incident tooling this is usually the fastest-growing line. PagerDuty lists Professional at $21 per responder per month billed annually on its own pricing page, or $25 billed monthly.
The annual commitment itself
The headline discount is real, and so is the lock-in. Paying monthly for the first quarter while you find out whether the alerting actually suits your team is usually worth the premium.
Data retention and SLA reporting
If you owe a customer an uptime report, check which tier produces one. Ours is on Business. Several vendors give you a dashboard on entry plans and an exportable report much higher up.
our own numbers
AlertPing pricing, on the same terms
It would be poor form to publish everyone else's rate card and be vague about our own. We have no free plan, we are not the cheapest tool on this page, and two of the entries above beat us on price at every tier. What we sell is a flat bill: email, Slack and webhook alerts are unlimited on every plan, SMS alerts are included up to a monthly allowance (100 on Starter, 300 on Team, 1,000 on Business, 3,000 on Enterprise), and SSL checks are included everywhere.
Starter
$49/mo
$24 a month billed yearly. 20 monitors, 60-second checks, one status page, three team members.
Team
$59/mo
$29 billed yearly. 100 monitors, 30-second checks, escalation chains and on-call hours, five branded status pages, 15 members.
Business
$189/mo
$94 billed yearly. 500 monitors, 30-second checks, SLA reports and the full API, 20 status pages with a custom domain, unlimited team.
Enterprise
$378/mo
$189 billed yearly. 1,500 monitors, 15-second checks, SSO and SAML, voice-call alerts.
Full detail, including what each plan does not include, is on the AlertPing pricing page. If you are weighing us against a specific tool, the comparison pages below go into far more depth than a single row in a table can.
shortlist by situation
What we would actually recommend, including when it is not us
| Your situation | Where we would start | Rough monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Side project, no revenue at risk | A free tier. HetrixTools allows commercial use and includes SSL; UptimeRobot's does not. | $0 |
| Small business site, minute resolution is fine | HetrixTools Professional or Pingdom at 10 checks. Both do the job. HetrixTools is cheaper than us, and Pingdom is a dollar under our monthly price. | $8.29 to $18 |
| Tight budget, many monitors, no SLA | StatusCake Superior: 100 monitors and 50 SSL checks for about $20 billed annually. | About $20 |
| You owe a customer an uptime commitment | Sub-minute checks and a documented confirmation rule. AlertPing Team, or StatusCake Business. | $59 to $67 |
| Only cron jobs and scheduled tasks | Healthchecks.io. Heartbeat-only and far cheaper than a full monitoring plan. | $0 to $20 |
| Multi-step API flows or browser journeys | Checkly. We do not run scripted sequences or browser flows at all. | $24 and up |
| Already deep in Datadog | Datadog Synthetics, unless the check volume is large and permanent. | Usage based |
| Reselling monitoring inside a care plan | HetrixTools Business for white labeling and sub-accounts. We offer neither. | About $20 |
| You need a customer-facing status page too | A monitoring tool with pages included beats Statuspage plus a monitor for most teams. | $49 to $59 |
questions buyers ask
Uptime monitoring pricing questions
How much does uptime monitoring cost?
For a US business, entry-level uptime monitoring costs roughly $9 to $29 a month, and a plan that reaches 30-second checks costs roughly $39 to $67. Free tiers exist at UptimeRobot, StatusCake, HetrixTools, Hyperping and Site24x7, generally at a five-minute interval. Usage-priced tools like Datadog Synthetics start near $5 per 10,000 test runs instead.
What is the cheapest uptime monitoring tool?
Among paid plans, HetrixTools Professional at $9.95 a month billed monthly is the cheapest commercial-grade option we have verified, with Pulsetic Solo around $9 and UptimeRobot Solo at $12 billed annually. All three sit below our $49 Starter plan. If a one-minute interval is enough for you, those are genuinely better value than we are.
Why is uptime monitoring priced per monitor?
Because a monitor is the unit that consumes resources continuously. A single monitor checked every 30 seconds runs about 87,600 checks a month, every month, from multiple locations. Monitor count is also the number buyers can estimate before they buy, which makes it a convenient thing to sell against even though interval is the bigger cost driver.
Is paid uptime monitoring worth it over a free plan?
It depends on whether downtime costs you money. Free tiers typically check every five minutes, which leaves a five-minute blind spot before detection even begins, and several exclude SSL checks or forbid commercial use in their terms. If an hour of downtime costs less than $20, stay free. If a customer would notice, the interval is the thing you are buying.
How much does UptimeRobot cost?
UptimeRobot's free plan covers 50 monitors at five minutes, with commercial-use restrictions and no SSL monitoring. Paid plans run Solo at $12 a month billed annually ($13 monthly), Team at $39 ($46), and Scale at $79 ($98), which is the tier that unlocks 15-second checks. Our UptimeRobot alternative page has the full breakdown.
How much does StatusCake cost?
StatusCake Superior is $24.49 a month billed monthly or $20.41 billed annually, covering 100 uptime monitors, 50 SSL checks and 75 SMS credits at a one-minute interval. Business is $79.99 monthly or $66.66 annually for 300 monitors, 30-second checks and 400 SMS credits. SSL monitoring is in every package, including the free one. See the full StatusCake pricing breakdown.
How much does Pingdom cost?
Pingdom has no free plan. Synthetic Monitoring starts at $18 a month billed monthly or $16.50 billed annually for 10 uptime checks, then scales by quantity: $78 for 50 checks, $149 for 100 and $1,295 for 1,000. The detail that matters more than any of those numbers: one minute is the interval floor at every plan size, so no Pingdom plan checks faster than once a minute. Every quantity step is in our Pingdom pricing breakdown.
What is the cheapest way to get 30-second checks?
StatusCake Business at $66.66 a month billed annually, UptimeRobot Team at $39 a month billed annually, and our own Team plan at $59 ($29 billed yearly) are the mainstream routes. Checkly reaches 10 seconds from $24 billed annually if API checks are all you need. Site24x7 is the outlier: 30-second polling is only on the $999 Enterprise Plus plan.
Do I need to pay separately for a status page?
Not usually. Most monitoring tools include at least one hosted status page in the plan, and the page updates from checks you are already paying for. A dedicated vendor becomes worth it when you need private or audience-specific pages, large subscriber lists, or heavy branding. Compare the two routes in status page software.
Why do price comparisons for these tools disagree so much?
Three reasons, and all three are avoidable. Vendor pages render in the reader's local currency, so euro figures get republished as dollars. Annual and monthly rates get mixed in a single table. And several vendors block automated access to their pricing, so scrapers fall back on listings that have not been refreshed in years.
go deeper
Every comparison, one per vendor
A row in a table cannot tell you whether a tool suits your team. Each page below covers one vendor in full, including where it beats us.
how we page you
Two regions have to agree
A single failed probe never wakes anybody. A second region, US East or EU Central, re-checks first, so a hiccup on one route is not a 3am phone call.
what a plan covers
SMS is in the price, not in credits
Email, Slack and webhook alerts are unlimited on every plan, SMS comes with a monthly allowance, and each plan hosts status pages. No credit packs, no per-message fee, no per-monitor math.
how setup works
One URL, no agent to install
Paste the address, choose where alerts go, and the first check runs from both regions. No agent, no config file, nothing to deploy on your side.
One flat price, included SMS, and a check interval you can actually buy
30-second checks from $59 a month, confirmed from a second region before anyone is paged. SSL, API, port and cron checks included, with a monthly SMS allowance on every plan.