UptimeRobot pricing and cost per monitor on every plan
Every figure on this page was read off UptimeRobot's own pricing page. Put your monitor count, the check speed you need and your seat count into the calculator and it works out which plan you actually land on, and what it costs a year.
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LiveHow much does UptimeRobot cost?
UptimeRobot costs nothing for 50 monitors at 5 minute checks, then $12 a month for Solo, $39 for Team and $79 for Scale when billed annually, or $13, $46 and $98 billed monthly. Two plans come in a second size: Solo with 50 monitors is $24 a month ($28 monthly) and Scale with 500 is $192 ($228 monthly). The paid tiers sell speed first: the 10-monitor Solo cuts the check interval from 5 minutes to 60 seconds but holds a fifth of the free plan's monitors, which makes it the most expensive monitor on the ladder at $1.20 each, against $0.48 on Solo 50 and $0.39 on Team.
That last point is the one worth sitting with, because it inverts how almost every other monitoring vendor prices. On most tools the free tier is small and each paid step gives you more of everything. On UptimeRobot the free tier holds as many monitors as the $288 a year Solo 50 and five times the entry Solo, and the paid ladder is a speed ladder wearing a capacity ladder's clothing.
The short version
- Free
- $0, 50 monitors, 5 min
- Solo
- $12 / mo, 10 monitors ($24 for 50), 60 s
- Team
- $39 / mo, 100 monitors, 30 s
- Scale
- $79 / mo, 200 monitors ($192 for 500), 15 s
- Extra seat
- $15 / mo each
Annual rates. Monthly billing is $13, $46 and $98. Verified on uptimerobot.com/pricing.
UptimeRobot plans and pricing
UptimeRobot's pricing page shows two numbers per plan with a billing toggle and no label saying which is which. The yearly totals resolve it: $144 divided by 12 is $12, $468 divided by 12 is $39, and $948 divided by 12 is $79. So the lower figure in each pair is the annual rate and the higher one is what you pay month to month.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual / mo | Per year | Monitors | Interval | Status pages | Retention | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | 50 | 5 minutes | 1 | 3 months | No card. All core check types. |
| Solo | $13 / $28 | $12 / $24 | $144 / $288 | 10 or 50 | 60 seconds | 3 | 12 months | Adds SSL, DNS, API and multi-location checks. Prices for 10 and 50 monitors. |
| Team | $46 | $39 | $468 | 100 | 30 seconds | 100 | 24 months | The first tier that beats the free plan on capacity. |
| Scale | $98 / $228 | $79 / $192 | $948 / $2,304 | 200 or 500 | 15 seconds | Unlimited | 24 months | Prices for 200 and 500 monitors. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Any amount | Custom | Unlimited | Custom | Sales quote only. |
One detail the marketing does not draw attention to: the advertised saving for paying yearly is "~15%", but it is not 15% on any plan. Solo saves 7.7% at 10 monitors and 14.3% at 50, Team saves 15.2%, and Scale saves 19.4% at 200 monitors and 15.8% at 500. The plan a small team is most likely to buy gets barely half the headline discount.
The cheapest paid plan gives you 80% fewer monitors than the free one
The free plan holds 50 monitors. Solo, the first plan you pay for, opens at 10. Moving from Free to the 10-monitor Solo costs $144 a year and takes 40 monitors away from you. Nothing on the pricing page frames it that way, and it catches people out: a small agency watching 30 client sites for free upgrades for faster checks and finds room for a third of them, unless it notices the monitor selector on the Solo card.
Correction, October 2026. An earlier version of this page said you could not get back to 50 monitors before Team and that the 500-monitor Scale price was unpublished. Both were wrong. Solo has a 50-monitor size at $24 a month billed annually ($28 monthly), and Scale with 500 monitors is $192 ($228 monthly). Every other figure on the page was re-read from the vendor's US price data and held.
Getting back to the free plan's capacity costs $288 a year on the 50-monitor Solo, or $468 for Team, which doubles it again at a faster interval. So the honest way to read this ladder is that the free tier is the capacity product and the paid tiers are the latency product. If your problem is "I have a lot of things to watch", the free plan is the answer until you cross 50. If your problem is "I need to know within a minute", you are buying Solo for the interval and the extra check types, not the monitors.
Monitors included, by price
Bars are proportional to the 200 monitor Scale allocation. Scale with 500 monitors costs $2,304 a year.
What an UptimeRobot monitor actually costs
Divide each plan's annual rate by the monitors it includes and the ladder stops looking like a ladder. The 10-monitor Solo is not a cheap way in. It is the most expensive monitor UptimeRobot sells, by a factor of three, while every other size lands between $0.38 and $0.48.
| Plan | Annual rate | Included | Per monitor / mo | What that means |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 / mo | 50 monitors | $0.00 | 5 minute checks only, and no SSL, DNS or API monitor types. |
| Solo | $12 / mo | 10 monitors | $1.20 | The most expensive monitor on the ladder, 3.1 times the Team rate. |
| Solo | $24 / mo | 50 monitors | $0.48 | Matches the free plan on capacity, with 60 second checks and SSL, DNS and API types. |
| Team | $39 / mo | 100 monitors | $0.39 | The value point. Capacity finally exceeds the free plan. |
| Scale | $79 / mo | 200 monitors | $0.395 | Same effective rate as Team. You are buying the 15 second interval. |
| Scale | $192 / mo | 500 monitors | $0.384 | The cheapest monitor UptimeRobot sells, barely below Team. |
The practical rule: if you are on the 10-monitor Solo and expect to need more than five, price the 50-monitor size before you add the sixth, since $12 more a month buys 40 more monitors. Solo plus one extra seat is $324 a year, which is two thirds of Team's $468 for a tenth of the capacity.
What each step up the speed ladder buys, in seconds
Since the paid tiers really sell check frequency, the fair way to price them is per second of detection time removed. For a continuous outage, average detection delay is roughly half the check interval, because the failure can start anywhere in the gap between two checks. Here is what each upgrade costs against what it actually saves.
| Upgrade | Interval | Avg detect before | Avg detect after | Seconds saved | Extra cost | Per second saved / yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free to Solo | 5 min to 60 s | 150 s | 30 s | 120 s | $144 / yr | $1.20 |
| Solo to Team | 60 s to 30 s | 30 s | 15 s | 15 s | $324 / yr | $21.60 |
| Team to Scale | 30 s to 15 s | 15 s | 7.5 s | 7.5 s | $480 / yr | $64.00 |
The curve is steep. The first upgrade removes two minutes of blindness for $1.20 a second a year, which is easy to justify for anything customer facing. The last one removes seven and a half seconds for $64 a second a year, which is 53 times the rate of the first. Somewhere in the middle is the point where you should stop buying interval and start fixing how fast your team responds once the alert fires, because a 7 second improvement in detection is worthless if the pager takes four minutes to reach a human. If you want to put a number on that trade, our error budget calculator turns an SLO into the detection speed it actually justifies.
Seats, where on Solo one teammate costs more than the plan
Login seats are for people who need to open the dashboard and manage monitors. Solo bundles 3, Team and Scale bundle 5, and extras are $15 a month each on annual billing or $19 month to month. UptimeRobot also separates notify seats, for people who only need to receive the alert, which is a genuinely sensible split and keeps you from paying full price for someone who just wants the Slack ping.
The arithmetic gets awkward on Solo. The plan is $12 a month. One extra login seat is $15. So the fourth person to need dashboard access costs 125% of everything else you are paying, and two extra seats put you at $42 a month, which is more than Team at $39 with its 100 monitors and 5 included seats. If you are on Solo and about to add a seat, price Team first: it is almost always the cheaper move.
SMS and voice credits are bought, not included
Text and phone alerts run on prepaid credits that do not renew with your plan. Solo includes 10 to 20, Team includes 30, Scale includes 50 to 200, and the free plan includes none. After that you buy packs, and the per-credit price falls sharply with volume.
| Pack | One-time price | Per credit |
|---|---|---|
| 10 credits | $3.00 | $0.300 |
| 100 credits | $15.00 | $0.150 |
| 200 credits | $25.00 | $0.125 |
| 500 credits | $55.00 | $0.110 |
| 1,000 credits | $100.00 | $0.100 |
The smallest pack costs three times as much per credit as the largest. Credits are shared across the whole team, and they can be topped up automatically when they run low, which is worth switching on before it matters.
Why you may have seen euros, and why the two lists do not match
UptimeRobot localizes its pricing page by visitor location. Loaded from a US address it renders dollars. Loaded from a European address it renders euros: EUR 9, EUR 35 and EUR 65 a month annually, or EUR 108, EUR 420 and EUR 780 a year. A lot of comparison articles quote whichever one their author happened to see, which is why you will find both sets of numbers online attributed to the same plans.
The interesting part is that the two lists are not a conversion of each other. If they were, one exchange rate would explain all three tiers. Converting the euro annual totals at the reference rate on the day we checked gives three different implied rates.
| Plan | EU list, per year | Converted at 1.1666 | US list, per year | Difference | US vs EU | Implied rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solo | EUR 108 | $126.00 | $144 | +$18.01 | +14.3% | 1.3333 |
| Team | EUR 420 | $489.96 | $468 | -$21.96 | -4.5% | 1.1143 |
| Scale | EUR 780 | $909.93 | $948 | +$38.07 | +4.2% | 1.2154 |
Solo implies 1.33 dollars to the euro, Team implies 1.11 and Scale implies 1.22. No single exchange rate produces that spread, so these are two independently set price lists that happen to sit on the same page. For a US buyer the practical consequence is small but real: you pay about 14% more than a European customer for Solo, about 4% less for Team and about 4% more for Scale, and none of that moves when the currency does, because your list price is fixed in dollars.
The free plan, and the commercial use question everyone gets wrong
The free plan gives you 50 monitors at 5 minute checks, one status page, 3 months of log retention and the core check types, with no card required. That is more free capacity than almost any competitor offers, and it is the reason UptimeRobot is the default recommendation in so many threads.
In late 2024 UptimeRobot changed its terms to restrict the free plan to personal, non-commercial use, and that change was written up widely. A great deal of that coverage is still the top result today. UptimeRobot's own help center now says the opposite: that the free plan is available for any use including commercial and business use, that it suits freelancers and small businesses monitoring client sites, and that there is no personal-only restriction. The only stated constraint is a fair use policy about how the service is used rather than who is using it.
We are reporting what the vendor currently documents, not adjudicating the change. If a client's monitoring depends on it, read the current terms yourself rather than trusting either the 2024 articles or this page. Terms move, and the free tier is exactly the kind of thing that gets tightened again.
What the free plan leaves out
- Checks no faster than 5 minutes, so average detection is around 2.5 minutes.
- No SSL or domain expiry monitoring, which is the check most likely to save you from a self-inflicted outage.
- No DNS, API or UDP monitoring, and no multi-location checks.
- No SMS or voice credits included, and monthly email reports only for the first 3 months.
- One status page, on an UptimeRobot subdomain.
Single-location checking is the one that bites hardest in practice: a check that fails from one node cannot tell you whether the site is down or the node is. That is what multi-location monitoring exists to rule out.
UptimeRobot against UptimeHub, including where they win
We build a competing product, so treat this section as interested rather than neutral. The figures on both sides are list prices you can check yourself. There are four rows here where UptimeRobot is straightforwardly the better buy, list price at small and mid sizes among them, and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worth less to you.
| Question | UptimeRobot | UptimeHub | Better buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry paid plan, billed yearly | Solo, $12 / mo, 10 monitors at 60 s | Starter, $24 / mo, 20 monitors at 60 s | UptimeRobot on price, same $1.20 per monitor |
| 100 monitors at 30 s, billed yearly | Team, $39 / mo, 5 seats included | Pro, $49 / mo, unlimited seats | UptimeRobot by $120 a year, UptimeHub from the sixth seat |
| Fastest interval | Scale, 15 seconds | Pro and Business, 30 seconds | UptimeRobot |
| Largest published plan, billed yearly | Scale, $192 / mo, 500 monitors | Business, $99 / mo, 400 monitors | UptimeHub per monitor |
| Free tier | 50 monitors at 5 minutes | None | UptimeRobot, outright |
| Check locations | 4 regions | 6 regions | UptimeHub |
| Extra dashboard seat | $15 / mo each | Included, unlimited on Pro and above | UptimeHub |
| Log retention | 3 to 24 months by tier | 12 months on every paid plan | Depends on tier |
Where UptimeRobot wins
At $0 there is no contest. Fifty monitors at 5 minute checks for nothing is a real product, and we do not have a free tier to put against it. If your budget is zero, use theirs. They also reach 15 second checks on Scale, and we stop at 30 seconds, so a trading platform or payments API that genuinely needs sub-10-second average detection should buy Scale and not us. On list price they also win at the entry point and at 100 monitors for a small team: Solo is $12 against our $24 Starter, and Team is $39 against our $49 Pro on annual billing, with a wider gap on monthly billing.
Where we win
On seats, volume and regions. Dashboard access is included rather than $15 a head, so Pro at $49 for 100 monitors at 30 seconds costs less than Team once a sixth person needs to manage monitors, and with ten people Team is $114 a month against our $49. Business holds 400 monitors for $99 billed yearly against Scale's 200 for $79, and every plan checks from 6 regions rather than 4, with a branded status page included. Full detail on the UptimeRobot alternative comparison.
One honest caveat about the seat comparison: UptimeRobot's split between login seats and notify seats means the $15 charge only applies to people who need to manage monitors, not to everyone who receives an alert. That is a fairer model than a flat per-user charge, and it is worth knowing before you assume a ten person team means ten seats.
UptimeRobot pricing questions
How much does UptimeRobot cost?
UptimeRobot costs $12 a month for Solo, $39 for Team and $79 for Scale when billed annually, which works out to $144, $468 and $948 a year. Billed monthly the same plans are $13, $46 and $98. Solo with 50 monitors is $24 a month and Scale with 500 is $192 on annual billing. The free plan covers 50 monitors at 5 minute checks and costs nothing.
Is UptimeRobot free?
Yes. UptimeRobot has a genuinely free plan, not a trial, and it is unusually generous: 50 monitors at 5 minute checks, one status page and 3 months of log retention, with no card required. What it leaves out is speed and check variety, since SSL, DNS, API and multi-location monitoring all sit behind the paid tiers.
Can I use the UptimeRobot free plan for a business?
Yes, according to UptimeRobot. Their help center states the free plan is available for any use including commercial and business use, and that there is no personal-only restriction. This contradicts a lot of advice still circulating from a 2024 policy change, so check the current terms yourself before you build a client workflow on it.
Why does the Solo plan have fewer monitors than the free plan?
Because UptimeRobot sells check speed first. The 10-monitor Solo cuts the interval from 5 minutes to 60 seconds and unlocks SSL, DNS and API checks, but holds 40 fewer monitors than the free plan for $144 a year. Solo also comes with 50 monitors for $24 a month billed annually, $288 a year, which keeps the free plan's capacity.
What is the cheapest UptimeRobot paid plan?
Solo with 10 monitors, at $12 a month billed annually or $13 billed monthly. It is also the worst value per monitor on the whole ladder: $1.20 per monitor per month, against $0.48 on the 50-monitor Solo and $0.39 on Team. The 10-monitor size makes sense only when you have ten or fewer things to watch and genuinely need 60 second checks.
Does UptimeRobot charge per user?
Only for extra seats. Each plan bundles some login seats, 3 on Solo and 5 on Team and Scale, and additional ones cost $15 a month each on annual billing or $19 monthly. On Solo that is brutal arithmetic: one extra seat at $15 costs more than the $12 plan it is attached to.
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. Each size has its own price: Solo is $12 or $24 a month and Scale $79 or $192 on annual billing. Above 500 monitors there is no published plan and UptimeRobot routes you to an Enterprise quote.
Why does UptimeRobot show prices in euros?
Because the pricing page is localized by visitor location. Loaded from a US address it renders dollars, and from a European address it renders euros. The two lists are set independently rather than converted: at the August 2026 exchange rate the implied conversion is 1.33 on Solo, 1.11 on Team and 1.22 on Scale.
Is UptimeRobot worth paying for?
It is worth paying for at Team and above, where 100 monitors at 30 seconds for $39 a month is competitive, and the 50-monitor Solo at $24 is fair value if 60 second checks are enough. The 10-monitor Solo is hard to justify because it costs more per monitor than any other size. Below 50 monitors at 5 minute checks, the free plan is the honest answer.
How does UptimeRobot pricing compare to UptimeHub?
On annual billing our Starter is $24 a month for 20 monitors at 60 seconds against Solo at $12 for 10, the same $1.20 per monitor, and our Pro is $49 for 100 monitors at 30 seconds against Team at $39 for the same, so UptimeRobot is $120 a year cheaper at that size until a sixth person needs dashboard access, which they charge $15 a month for and we include. On monthly billing the gap is wider: Team is $46 against $99 for Pro. Their Scale runs 200 monitors at 15 seconds for $79 and our Business runs 400 at 30 seconds for $99, so they win on speed and we win on volume. At $0 they beat us outright, because we have no free tier.
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