Pulsetic Alternative With Unlimited Seats in One Flat Plan
Pulsetic is a polished website uptime monitor with genuinely good status pages, checks from up to 15 locations on its middle tier and above, and phone-call and SMS alerts starting on its lowest paid plan at $9 a month. On check types the two products are now close to level: Pulsetic ships cron job, API, keyword, domain expiry, TCP port and ICMP ping monitoring alongside HTTP and SSL, all drawing on one monitor pool. Where they differ is the billing model. Pulsetic meters people, at $8 a month for a dashboard teammate and $2 for a notify-only seat, with no teammates at all included on Solo, and it gates 30 second checks, 15 regions, white-label status pages, role-based access and API access behind the $19 Team plan. Uptimehub charges per monitor and never per seat, so logins, client viewers and the whole on-call rota are free, and every check type plus a branded status page is in every plan. For one person watching a large estate, Pulsetic is the cheaper tool and we say so below. For a team, the seat line is what decides it.
Checked from regions with auto-retry. No single-location false alarms.
All systems operational. Steady pulse across every region.
api.example.com returned no response from all 6 regions. Auto-retry confirmed the outage, then we alerted your team.
api.example.com is back up. The incident is logged to your status page history automatically.
90-day uptime · branded · your domain
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Uptimehub vs Pulsetic
| Capability | Uptimehub | Pulsetic |
|---|---|---|
| Branded status page included | White label from $19 Team | |
| Cron and heartbeat job monitoring | ||
| DNS, domain expiry and TCP port checks | ||
| API and keyword checks | ||
| Auto-retry to avoid false alerts | ||
| Dashboard logins | Unlimited, free | $8/mo each, none on Solo |
| Alert-only recipients | Unlimited, free | $2/mo per notify seat |
| Extra monitors | Flat plan allowance | $0.20/mo each |
| Monitoring locations | 6 global regions | 3 free, 5 Solo, 15 Team |
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds | 60 sec on Solo, 30 on Team |
| Phone call alerts on the lowest paid tier | Higher tiers |
Comparison reflects general product positioning and is provided in good faith. Verify current capabilities with each vendor.
A correction to an earlier version of this page
Until September 2026 this page described Pulsetic as an HTTP and SSL tool that does not cover scheduled jobs, DNS, ports or API responses, and it listed those check types as "Not offered" in the comparison table above. That was wrong, and it was wrong in our favour, which is the worst direction for a comparison to be wrong in.
Pulsetic ships dedicated cron job monitoring, API monitoring, keyword monitoring, domain expiry monitoring, TCP port monitoring and ICMP ping monitoring, each as its own product, each drawing on the same monitor allowance, and each available from the free tier upward. We verified all six directly against the vendor product pages on 2 September 2026. The table has been corrected and the check-type rows now read as ticks on both sides, because that is what is true.
We are leaving this note here rather than quietly editing the table, because a comparison page that silently revises itself is not worth reading. If you are weighing these two tools on check-type coverage, that is no longer the difference between them.
The real difference is what a person costs
Pulsetic sells plans at $9, $19 and $49 a month and then meters usage on top at published per-unit rates: $0.20 a monitor, $8 a dashboard teammate, $2 a notify-only seat, $0.10 an SMS or call and $0.01 a status page subscriber. The Solo plan at $9 includes zero teammates, so the second person to need a login takes the account to $17 and the third to $25.
Uptimehub does not meter people at all. A plan buys a monitor allowance, and logins, alert recipients, client viewers and the on-call rota are unlimited and free on every tier. That is the whole of the difference, and it is the reason to pick one over the other.
The arithmetic runs both ways and we are not going to hide the half that goes against us. At 100 monitors with one operator, Pulsetic Solo plus add-ons is about $27 a month against our $39 monthly Pro plan, so they win. Add a second teammate and the cheapest Pulsetic configuration is $29 against our $29 annual Pro price, which is level. Add a third and it is $37 against $29. Full workings, including the finding that the Team plan costs exactly $2 a month more than Solo at every monitor count, are on the Pulsetic pricing breakdown.
| Estate | Cheapest Pulsetic | Uptimehub Pro, annual | Who wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 monitors, 1 person | $27 (Solo plus add-ons) | $29 | Pulsetic |
| 100 monitors, 2 teammates | $29 (Team) | $29 | Level |
| 100 monitors, 3 teammates | $37 (Team plus a seat) | $29 | Uptimehub |
| 100 monitors, 5 teammates | $53 (Team plus 3 seats) | $29 | Uptimehub |
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Monitoring and a status page, self-serve
Checked from regions with auto-retry. No single-location false alarms.
All systems operational. Steady pulse across every region.
api.example.com returned no response from all 6 regions. Auto-retry confirmed the outage, then we alerted your team.
api.example.com is back up. The incident is logged to your status page history automatically.
90-day uptime · branded · your domain
Live demo · drive it, no signup needed
FAQ
Questions buyers ask about switching from Pulsetic
If more than one person needs a login, Uptimehub is the direct swap: same external check types, same branded status page, but priced per monitor and never per seat, so teammates and client viewers cost nothing. Pulsetic stays the better pick for a single operator watching a large estate, where extra monitors at $0.20 each undercut us, and for 15-region coverage.
Yes. Pulsetic ships a dedicated API monitoring product alongside keyword monitoring, and both are available on every plan including the free tier. An earlier version of this page said otherwise and was wrong. API, MCP and n8n access for automating your monitors is a separate matter and does start on the $19 Team plan rather than on Solo.
Pulsetic advertises checks from up to 15 locations, which is more probe geography than most tools at its price and a genuine advantage if your customers are spread widely. Uptimehub runs from six regions with automatic retry from a different region before an alert fires, which is the mechanism that matters most for avoiding false alarms.
Yes, phone-call and SMS alerts start on its lowest paid tier, which is unusual at that price point and worth weighing if a call is the only thing that wakes your on-call person. Uptimehub delivers alerts by email, webhook and chat integrations, so a call routing service sits between us and a phone ringing.
Count people first, monitors second. Pulsetic bills $8 a month per dashboard teammate and includes none on Solo, while Uptimehub logins are unlimited and free. For a single operator Pulsetic is cheaper, roughly $27 a month at 100 monitors against our $39 monthly Pro plan. The two land level at two teammates, and Uptimehub is cheaper from three onward.
Last updated September 2026
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