Uptime Monitoring Pricing Compared: What Uptime Monitoring Costs Across 10 Tools
What ten uptime monitoring tools actually charge, read off each vendor's own pricing page this month, plus the five billing models that decide what you pay two years from now. We build Uptimehub, and we have shown where the others are cheaper.
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In short
Uptime monitoring costs most teams between $9 and $35 a month, and most growing SaaS teams between $30 and $100 a month. Nearly every tool has a free tier, and the paid entry point clusters tightly: Uptimehub and Pulsetic start at $9, Checkly at $24, StatusCake at $24.49, Hyperping and Statuspage at $29 and UptimeRobot at $12. The sticker price is the smaller half of the decision. What actually decides your bill two years from now is the billing model, because per-monitor, per-seat, per-check-run and per-subscriber pricing grow at completely different rates as you add services, teammates and customers.
Side by side
What each uptime monitoring tool charges
Every figure in this table was read on the vendor's own pricing page in August 2026. Where a vendor localizes its pricing page by visitor country we have taken the US list, because that is the figure a US buyer is actually charged. HetrixTools and Instatus are missing on purpose: their pages would not return readable figures to us this month, and a stale price is worse than no price. Pingdom is now included, having finally read to us in full; we broke its whole ladder out on the Pingdom pricing page. Datadog is priced per check run rather than per monitor, so it sits on synthetic monitoring pricing with the other metered vendors instead of in this table.
| Tool | Free tier | Entry paid price | What the entry tier buys | Billing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptimehub | No free tier, paid only | $9/mo (Starter) | 20 monitors checked every minute, 6 regions, branded status page on your own domain included | Per monitor, never per seat |
| UptimeRobot | Yes, 50 monitors at 5 min | $12/mo (Solo) | 10 monitors at 60 second checks. Team $39 for 100 monitors, Scale from $79 for 200 to 500 | Tiered bundles. The first paid tier holds fewer monitors than the free one |
| Pulsetic | Yes, 10 monitors at 5 min | $9/mo (Solo) | 10+ monitors at 60 seconds. Team $19 for 50+, Organization $49 for 300+ | Tiered bundles, seats extra |
| Site24x7 | Yes, up to 50 resources | $10/mo (Web Uptime) | 25 websites from 32 locations, $9/mo annual. Web Perf $39 for 40 sites and 8 transaction monitors but only 8 locations | Tiered bundles plus a six meter add-on rate card |
| StatusCake | Yes, 10 monitors at 5 min | $24.49/mo (Superior) | 100 monitors at 1 minute. Business $79.99 for 300 monitors at 30 seconds. Annual $20.41 and $66.66 | Tiered bundles |
| Checkly | Yes, 10 monitors | $24/mo (Starter) | 50 uptime monitors, 3,000 browser check runs, 25,000 API check runs, 3 users | Metered check runs plus seats |
| Hyperping | Yes, 20 monitors at 5 min | $29/mo (Essentials) | 50 monitors at 30 seconds, 2 seats included, extra seats $7 each | Tiered bundles plus per seat |
| Statuspage (Atlassian) | Yes, 100 subscribers | $29/mo (Hobby) | 250 subscribers and 5 team members. Publishes only, it does no monitoring at any tier | Per subscriber tier |
| Better Stack | Yes, 10 monitors | $25/mo per 50 monitors | Plus $34/mo per responder, and $250 per month per white-labeled status page. Three meters run at once | Per monitor, per responder seat and per status page |
| Cronitor | Yes, 5 monitors, 1 user | $2/mo per monitor | Pay as you go, plus $5/mo per extra user. Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year | Per monitor plus per user |
| Pingdom | No free tier, trial only | $18/mo ($16.50 yearly) | 10 uptime checks, 1 transaction check, 50 SMS alerts. No named plans: a 22 step ladder to $28,548/mo. Unlimited users | Quantity ladder. One tier bundles uptime checks, transaction checks and SMS alerts, so the greediest meter sets the bill |
Two things stand out reading down that table. The entry prices are remarkably close together, which means the headline number is almost never the reason to pick one tool over another. And the billing models in the last column are not close together at all. That column is the one to read twice, because it is what makes two teams with identical infrastructure pay very different amounts. Our own plans are on the Uptimehub pricing page if you want the detail on what $9 covers. This page prices the checks. If what you are budgeting for is the public page customers read during an outage, that is a separate market with its own ladder, and we price it separately in the status page pricing comparison. And if the tools you are weighing are the metered APM platforms rather than the flat-rate vendors above, the rates work completely differently: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana and AWS all bill per check run, so the interval sets the bill. Those are priced out in the synthetic monitoring pricing comparison. One vendor in the table above is complicated enough to need its own page: Better Stack sells no tiers at all, only a free base plan and about twenty add-ons, four of which cost $250 per status page per month, so we price the whole catalogue line by line in the Better Stack pricing breakdown. UptimeRobot has its own page for a different reason: its first paid plan holds 80% fewer monitors than its free one, which inverts how the rest of this table reads, and we work through every tier and the real cost per monitor in the UptimeRobot pricing breakdown. Site24x7 is the third: it is not one ladder but eight plans across three product lines, and its website tier list actually runs backwards, giving you 32 monitoring locations on the $10 plan and 8 on the $39 one, so we mapped every plan and every add-on unit rate in the Site24x7 pricing breakdown. StatusCake is the fourth: it bundles five separate meters (monitors, check interval, status pages, locations and SSL checks) into just two tiers, so paying more gets you proportionally less on some of them, and we walk through all four places that happens in the StatusCake pricing breakdown. Uptrends is the fifth, and the odd one out: it does not price monitors at all, it prices credits, and an uptime monitor costs six of them, so we decoded the whole rate card in the Uptrends pricing breakdown. Pulsetic is the sixth, and it is the only vendor here that publishes a per-unit rate for every meter alongside its plan prices, which lets you check the plans against their own components: doing that shows the middle tier costs exactly $2 a month more than the cheapest one at every monitor count, and we show the arithmetic in the Pulsetic pricing breakdown. Hyperping is the seventh, and it inverts the usual volume discount: its per-seat price rises as you move up the tiers, $7 then $9 then $12, so the middle plan is never the cheaper option for people at any team size, and we prove that has no crossover in the Hyperping pricing breakdown. Two more belong to the adjacent category rather than to this table, and they matter because most teams end up paying for one of each: PagerDuty and Opsgenie are on-call and incident response tools that route an alert once something else has detected the problem, so their per-user bill sits on top of whatever is running the checks. PagerDuty bills every user with no published volume discount and holds only five people on its free plan, which makes the sixth hire cost $1,512 in year one rather than $252, and we work that step through in the PagerDuty pricing breakdown. Opsgenie prices the same job on a nine band marginal ladder instead, which is why the two are within 5% of each other at ten users and 2.17 times apart at a thousand, and it is being switched off on 5 April 2027, so every existing customer has a replacement to buy: the full ladder is in the Opsgenie pricing breakdown and the two are set side by side in Opsgenie vs PagerDuty pricing. Sentry is the newest addition and behaves unlike anything else here: it includes exactly one uptime monitor and one cron monitor on every plan, free and paid alike, then meters the rest at $1.00 and $0.78 a month, so upgrading from the $29 plan to the $89 one buys no extra monitors at all and changes only one included quota out of fourteen. The full matrix, and why its free plan and its $89 plan include the same amount of eight different things, is in the Sentry uptime monitoring pricing breakdown.
The real variable
The five ways uptime monitoring is priced
Uptime monitoring is sold five different ways, and they diverge fast. Two teams watching the same twenty endpoints can pay $9 and $250 for the same information, purely because of which shape they bought into.
Per monitor
Uptimehub, Cronitor
The bill is a function of how many things you watch and nothing else. Adding a teammate is free, checking every 30 seconds instead of every 5 minutes is free, and a busy month costs the same as a quiet one. It is the easiest model to forecast, and the one that punishes you least for monitoring thoroughly.
Per seat or per responder
Better Stack, incident.io
You pay for the humans who can see and act on the alerts. This works out cheaply for a two-person team and gets expensive precisely when you want more of the company watching. Better Stack publishes $34 a month per responder on top of its monitor charge, so a six-person on-call rota is over $200 a month before a single monitor is counted.
Per check run or per request
Checkly, Postman, Datadog
You buy a pool of executions and every check consumes from it. Frequency is the multiplier here: moving one endpoint from a 5 minute check to a 1 minute check uses five times the budget. It suits teams running a handful of deep scripted checks, and it is the worst fit for watching many endpoints often.
Per subscriber
Statuspage, Instatus
Status page products almost always ladder on how many people can subscribe to updates, not on how much you monitor. Atlassian Statuspage runs from $29 for 250 subscribers to $1,499 for 25,000. The trap is that a single bad outage grows your subscriber list and pushes you up a tier.
Tiered bundles
UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Hyperping, Site24x7, Pulsetic
A step function. You get a fixed allowance of monitors and a fixed check interval, and when you outgrow either one you buy the whole next tier. Cheap while you fit and abruptly expensive when you do not, so the number to check is the headroom above your current monitor count, not the price you pay today.
What to budget
What you should expect to pay, by team
These bands come from the verified table above rather than from a survey. They are what a team of each shape realistically ends up paying once the free tier stops being enough.
| Who you are | Monthly spend | What that looks like in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Solo developer or side project | $0 to $12 | A free tier genuinely covers this. UptimeRobot gives 50 monitors at 5 minute checks for nothing, and StatusCake and Pulsetic both give 10. You are trading check frequency and alert channels for the price, which is a fair trade when nobody is paying you for uptime. |
| Small business or first paid plan | $9 to $35 | The point where 5 minute checks stop being acceptable and you want a status page customers can see. Almost every vendor's entry tier lives in this band. Uptimehub Starter is $9 for 20 monitors at 1 minute with the branded status page included. |
| Growing SaaS team | $30 to $100 | Twenty to a hundred monitors, sub-minute checks on the critical paths, several alert channels and a handful of people who need access. This is where per-seat pricing starts to diverge sharply from per-monitor pricing, often by a factor of two or three. |
| Agency running client sites | $79 to $300 | Hundreds of monitors across dozens of domains, plus a status page per client in many cases. Monitor count is the driver, so per-monitor plans and large tiered bundles both work. Watch for tools that charge per status page, because that cost scales with your client list. |
| Enterprise or regulated | $300 to $1,500+ | SLA reporting, private status pages, SSO, audit logs and named support. Atlassian Statuspage alone reaches $1,499 a month at the top, before any monitoring sits underneath it. Budget for the workflow features rather than for the checks, because the checks are the cheap part. |
Watch for these
The costs that are not on the pricing page
SMS and phone call alerts
Email, Slack and webhook alerts are almost always included. SMS and voice calls very often are not, and are either capped at a small monthly allowance or billed per message. If your escalation path depends on waking someone at 3am, price that channel specifically before you commit.
The custom domain on your status page
A page at status.yourdomain.com is the one customers trust, and it is routinely locked behind a higher tier than the one you were planning to buy. Check which tier unlocks it. Uptimehub includes it in every plan, which is deliberate, but that is not the norm in this category.
Seats for people who only need to look
Under per-seat pricing, read-only access is frequently still a paid seat. That quietly discourages giving support and account teams visibility, which is the opposite of useful during an incident.
Check frequency
Many entry tiers advertise a monitor count and quietly cap the interval at 5 minutes. A 5 minute check means an outage can run for nearly 5 minutes before anyone knows. If you need 30 or 60 second checks, confirm the tier rather than the brochure.
Data retention and SLA reports
Uptime history is what you need when a customer disputes an SLA credit. Retention windows of 7 or 30 days are common on lower tiers, and exportable SLA reporting is usually a paid feature.
Annual lock-in on the advertised price
A large share of the headline numbers in this category are annual-billing prices, and the gap is real money. StatusCake is $24.49 a month billed monthly against $20.41 billed annually, Hyperping is $29 against $24, and Site24x7 is $10 against $9. Compare like with like before deciding one tool undercuts another.
How to choose
How to compare uptime monitoring prices properly
Count your monitors honestly, then double it
Teams consistently underestimate. A single web app is usually the marketing site, the app domain, the API, the login endpoint, the SSL certificate, the DNS record and two cron jobs. That is eight monitors for one product. Price the tier you will be on in a year, not the one you fit today.
Decide whether the bill should track people or services
This is the single biggest fork. If your team will grow faster than your infrastructure, avoid per-seat pricing. If you run a handful of deep scripted journeys with a stable two-person team, a metered per-run tool can be cheaper than it looks.
Check the interval, not just the monitor count
Two plans at the same price with the same monitor allowance are not comparable if one checks every 5 minutes and the other every 30 seconds. Detection speed is the product. A cheaper plan that finds out nine times slower is not cheaper.
Work out whether the status page is included or sold separately
Buying monitoring at $9 and a status page at $29 is a $38 stack with an integration in the middle that can silently stop working. Bundled tools flip the page from their own confirmed checks. If you need a public page at all, price the pair together.
Look for the free tier that is a real free tier
UptimeRobot at 50 monitors is genuinely generous. Several others cap at 10 monitors and 5 minute checks, which is a trial in everything but name. Neither is dishonest, but they support very different decisions.
The price you are shown depends on where you are
Several vendors localize the pricing page by visitor location, and the lists are set independently rather than converted. UptimeRobot shows $12, $39 and $79 to a US visitor and EUR 9, EUR 35 and EUR 65 to a European one, which works out to three different implied exchange rates, so neither list is a translation of the other. Site24x7 ships five currency lists to the browser. If you are approving spend in dollars, confirm the figure from a US connection rather than trusting a number quoted in an article, because the author may simply have been somewhere else.
Test the alerting before you care about the price
Every tool on this list can tell you a site is down. The differences that matter under pressure are auto-retry from a second region before alerting, how fast the notification actually lands, and whether the escalation path works at night. A cheap tool that cries wolf gets muted, and a muted monitor is worth nothing.
If you are still building the shortlist rather than pricing it, our uptime monitoring tools comparison rates thirteen tools on features rather than cost, and the API monitoring tools comparison covers the developer-facing end of the same market. Teams whose main purchase is the public page should start with status page software, where the pricing ladders work on subscribers instead of monitors. If self-hosting is on the table, the self-hosted versus hosted breakdown runs the same arithmetic with engineer hours included, and our UptimeRobot comparison is the head-to-head most people on this page are actually running.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask about uptime monitoring pricing
Most teams pay between $9 and $35 a month, and growing SaaS teams between $30 and $100. Paid entry tiers cluster tightly: Uptimehub and Pulsetic at $9, Checkly at $24, StatusCake at $24.49, Hyperping and Statuspage at $29, UptimeRobot at $12. Free tiers exist almost everywhere but cap check frequency at 5 minutes.
For zero cost, UptimeRobot has the most generous free tier at 50 monitors with 5 minute checks. Among paid plans, Uptimehub and Pulsetic both start at $9 a month, and Cronitor can be cheaper still at $2 per monitor if you watch fewer than four things. Cheapest depends entirely on your monitor count.
Re-verified on their US pricing page in August 2026: the free tier covers 50 monitors at 5 minute checks and one status page, Solo is $12 a month annually for 10 monitors at 60 seconds, Team is $39 for 100 monitors at 30 seconds, and Scale starts at $79 for 200 to 500 monitors at 15 seconds. Note that Solo holds fewer monitors than the free plan, so the paid ladder sells check speed rather than capacity.
It is worth paying for once downtime costs you money or trust. The arithmetic is simple: a $9 plan pays for itself if it saves one hour of unnoticed outage a year on a site that earns anything at all. Below that threshold, a free tier is a perfectly rational choice.
Per-monitor pricing bills you for how many things you watch, so adding teammates is free. Per-seat pricing bills you for how many people can see and act on alerts, so the cost grows with your team rather than your infrastructure. Per-seat gets expensive exactly when you want more of the company watching.
Because the billing model, not the feature list, drives the bill. A six-person team on per-responder pricing can pay three times what an identical team pays per monitor, for the same checks. Check frequency and status page subscribers create the same divergence on metered and subscriber-tiered plans.
It is good enough to know a site broke, and rarely good enough to know quickly. Free tiers almost universally cap checks at 5 minutes, limit alert channels to email, and put branded status pages behind payment. If customers notice your outages before you do, the free tier is costing you more than a paid one.
One price, per monitor, never per seat
Uptimehub starts at $9 a month for 20 monitors checked every minute from six global regions, with a branded status page on your own domain included. Invite the whole team at no extra cost, because we bill for what you watch and not for who is watching.