Uptrends pricing and cost: every plan and the 2026 credit rate card
Uptrends does not price monitors, it prices credits, and each monitor type burns a different number of them. Put your real monitor list in and the calculator converts it to credits, applies the published per-credit rate, and shows the annual bill on Core and on Pro side by side.
Uptrends credit cost calculator
LiveRates read from the machine readable rate card inside uptrends.com/pricing in September 2026, USD list. Transaction and API monitors are billed per step and are not sold on Core, so a list containing either is priced on Pro only.
How much does Uptrends cost?
Uptrends prices monitoring in credits, and in September 2026 a credit costs $7 a year on the Core plan and $10 a year on Pro. An uptime monitor uses 6 credits, so it is $42 a year on Core and $60 a year on Pro. A browser monitor uses 50 credits ($350 and $500 a year), a transaction monitor uses 50 credits per step and an API monitor 15 credits per step, and neither of those two is sold on Core at all. Enterprise is quoted individually. There is no free plan on the price list, only a 30 day trial that runs on full Enterprise access with no credit card. The figure to watch is the headline: the plan cards say Core starts "from $42 /month" while the table further down the same page prices that identical monitor at $4 a month.
Every number here was read on 1 September 2026 from the rate card that uptrends.com/pricing ships to the browser, an object tagged version 20260304-mvp carrying a price per monitor type per plan per currency. Nothing was transcribed from rendered text. The unit was confirmed by arithmetic: each stored value divided by twelve reproduces the monthly figure the vendor prints in its own per-monitor table, so the stored figures are annual, seven times over.
That matters because Uptrends replaced its price list during 2026. Directory listings have not caught up. Capterra's Uptrends pricing page today still advertises a "Business" plan at $100 flat per month, and no plan by that name exists on the vendor's own page. If you are budgeting from a third party listing, you are budgeting from a retired price list.
The short version
- The unit: a credit. $7 a year on Core, $10 on Pro.
- An uptime monitor: 6 credits, so $42 or $60 a year.
- Free tier: none. A 30 day Enterprise trial instead.
- The catch: upgrading to Pro raises the price of every credit by 42.9 percent.
- Not published: how many credits a plan includes.
The Uptrends credit rate card, verified September 2026
This is the table the whole price list reduces to. Multiply the credits a monitor costs by the per-credit rate of the plan and you have the annual price. Every figure below is the USD list.
| Monitor type | Credits | Core, per year | Core, per month | Pro, per year | Pro, per month | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitor | 6 | $42 | $3.50 | $60 | $5.00 | HTTP and HTTPS availability, including certificate checks. |
| Browser monitor | 50 | $350 | $29.17 | $500 | $41.67 | A real Chrome or Edge page load with performance metrics. |
| Transaction monitor | 50 per step | Not sold | Not sold | $500 | $41.67 | A scripted multi step journey. Every step is billed separately. |
| API monitor | 15 per step | Not sold | Not sold | $150 | $12.50 | Chained API requests. Every request in the chain is a step. |
| Price per credit, per year | 1 | $7.00 | $0.583 | $10.00 | $0.833 | Identical across every monitor type on a plan, to the cent. |
The per-credit rate is not something Uptrends advertises, and it is the single most useful number on this page. It falls out of the rate card because the price of every monitor type divided by its credit cost lands on exactly $7 on Core and exactly $10 on Pro. $42 over 6, $350 over 50, $60 over 6, $500 over 50, $150 over 15: five divisions, two clean answers. Once you know it, pricing any monitoring estate on Uptrends is one multiplication.
What each Uptrends plan actually gates
Three cards, no free tier. The "from" figures are reproduced exactly as the vendor prints them, including the per-month label, because that label is the subject of the next section.
| Plan | Annual | Monthly | Users | Checkpoints | Uptime interval | Retention | SMS credits | Status pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | from $42 /month | from $46 /month | 10 | US and EU regions | 2 minutes | 180 days | 240 | 10 |
| Pro | from $60 /month | from $66 /month | 25 | 230+ multi-select | 1 minute | 365 days | 600 | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Custom pricing | Unlimited | Plus private, in firewall | 30 seconds | 730 days | 1,200 | Unlimited |
Core sells two monitor types
Uptime and browser, and that is the whole list. The moment you need a scripted checkout journey or a chained API check you are on Pro, whatever your monitor count. Buying a single API monitor re-prices every uptime monitor you already own.
Pro is where the network opens up
Core gives you US and EU checkpoint regions and picks a server for you. Pro lets you choose individual cities from a network the vendor puts at more than 230 checkpoints, which is the reason most people buy Uptrends rather than a cheaper monitor.
Enterprise is the firewall tier
Private Linux or Windows checkpoints inside your network, 30 second uptime checks, OpenTelemetry export, Terraform, SSO and unlimited users. No figure is published, and given the credit model the quote will be a credit rate.
The $42 problem: their headline and their table disagree by a factor of twelve
The Core plan card reads from $42 /month. Lower down the same page, in Uptrends' own per-monitor table, an uptime monitor on Core is priced at $4 a month. The stored value behind both is 42, and 42 divided by 12 is 3.50, which rounds to the $4 in the table. So the headline figure is the annual price of one uptime monitor carrying a per-month label.
The same thing happens on Pro. The card says from $60 a month, the table prices a Pro uptime monitor at $5 a month, and 60 divided by 12 is exactly 5. Both cards, both plans, the same factor of twelve. The monthly-billing versions line up too: $46 is 42 times 1.10, and $66 is 60 times 1.10.
There are only two readings and they are very far apart. Either the plan cards are showing an annual per-monitor price with the wrong time label, in which case Uptrends starts far cheaper than the headline suggests, or $42 and $60 a month are genuine plan floors, in which case the entry commitment is 72 credits on both plans ($42 times 12 divided by $7, and $60 times 12 divided by $10, which both come to 72). We cannot resolve it from the published page, so we are not going to pretend we can.
What we can tell you is what to do about it: before you sign anything, ask Uptrends in writing what your first invoice will be and how many credits it buys. Their FAQ confirms a minimum commitment exists (there is an entry headed "Why is there a minimum commitment?") but the page never states its size, and includedUnits is 0 on Core, Pro, Enterprise and the dormant free plan alike in their own rate card. A price list that does not say what the minimum is has to be confirmed by a human before it becomes a budget.
Three more places the page disagrees with itself
Not pricing, but the same proofreading. Each of these is a heading and its own description, side by side on one card.
Core, browser monitor
Browser (10 mins)
"Test web pages in the latest Chrome and Edge for accurate performance metrics every 15 minutes"
The heading says 10 minutes and the sentence under it says 15.
Pro, transaction monitor
Transaction (5 mins)
"Simulate multi-step user transactions (e.g. logins, forms, checkouts) every 10 minutes"
The heading says 5 minutes and the sentence under it says 10.
Enterprise, retention
730 Days Data Retention
"Extend data retention to 3 years for comprehensive historical analysis and compliance requirements"
730 days is 2 years. The Pro card gets this right, labelling 365 days as 1 year.
Upgrading to Pro raises the price of monitors you already own by 42.9 percent
This is the structural fact buyers miss, and it is the reason to think about which plan you will be on in a year rather than which one you need this quarter. A credit costs $7 on Core and $10 on Pro. Nothing about the monitor changes. The same uptime check, watching the same URL from the same network, costs $42 a year on one plan and $60 on the other.
The multiplier
42.9%
$10 over $7. Applied to every credit in your account, not just the new ones.
What triggers it
1 API check
Core does not sell API or transaction monitors, so one of either moves the whole account to Pro.
On 100 uptime monitors
$1,800
A year of extra cost, $4,200 becoming $6,000, before you add the API monitor that caused it.
Per step, not per monitor
$2,500
One 5 step checkout journey a year on Pro. 50 credits a step, 250 credits, $10 each.
What real monitoring estates cost on this rate card
Credits computed from the published credit costs, price from the published per-credit rate. Nothing in this table is quoted from the vendor; it is their arithmetic applied to a shopping list.
| What you monitor | Credits | Core, per year | Pro, per year | Core, per month | Pro, per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 uptime monitors | 60 | $420 | $600 | $35.00 | $50.00 |
| 25 uptime monitors | 150 | $1,050 | $1,500 | $87.50 | $125.00 |
| 50 uptime monitors | 300 | $2,100 | $3,000 | $175.00 | $250.00 |
| 100 uptime monitors | 600 | $4,200 | $6,000 | $350.00 | $500.00 |
| 100 uptime plus 5 browser monitors | 850 | $5,950 | $8,500 | $495.83 | $708.33 |
| 100 uptime plus one 5 step checkout transaction | 850 | Not sold on Core | $8,500 | Not sold on Core | $708.33 |
| 100 uptime plus one 5 step API monitor | 675 | Not sold on Core | $6,750 | Not sold on Core | $562.50 |
Read the last two rows together. Adding one five step checkout journey to a hundred uptime monitors takes the annual bill from $4,200 on Core to $8,500 on Pro. Of that $4,300 increase, only $2,500 is the transaction monitor. The other $1,800 is the re-pricing of the hundred uptime monitors you already had. If you are budgeting a synthetic monitoring project, that second number is the one that will surprise your finance team.
Uptrends shows a different price list depending on the country you browse from
The rate card carries a region-to-currency map. The United States gets USD, the United Kingdom gets GBP, and 21 euro-zone countries get EUR. That alone is unremarkable. What is worth knowing is that the three lists are not independent: every euro price is exactly 0.85 times the dollar price and every pound price is exactly 0.75 times it, across all six published prices, with no rounding error anywhere.
| Annual price | USD | EUR | GBP | EUR / USD | GBP / USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitor, Core | $42 | €35.70 | £31.50 | 0.85 | 0.75 |
| Browser monitor, Core | $350 | €297.50 | £262.50 | 0.85 | 0.75 |
| Uptime monitor, Pro | $60 | €51.00 | £45.00 | 0.85 | 0.75 |
| Browser monitor, Pro | $500 | €425.00 | £375.00 | 0.85 | 0.75 |
| Transaction step, Pro | $500 | €425.00 | £375.00 | 0.85 | 0.75 |
| API step, Pro | $150 | €127.50 | £112.50 | 0.85 | 0.75 |
Two practical consequences for a US buyer. First, the dollar figure is the highest sticker number of the three, so any Uptrends price you find quoted in a European article or forum thread will look cheaper than your quote and is not a discount you can ask for. Second, because the multipliers are fixed rather than tracked to a market rate, whether the euro list is genuinely better value than the dollar list depends entirely on where the spot rate happens to sit on the day. Neither list is a conversion of the other.
Uptrends against Uptimehub, including the three things they do that we do not
Uptrends Core priced as a monthly equivalent on annual billing, against the cheapest Uptimehub plan that holds the same monitor count. We are cheaper on plain availability monitoring by a wide margin, and that comparison is not the interesting part of the table. The last three rows are.
| Requirement | Uptrends | Uptimehub | Cheaper or better | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 monitors | $35.00 | Starter, $12 | Uptimehub | Their 2 minute interval against our 1 minute. |
| 20 monitors | $70.00 | Starter, $12 | Uptimehub | Same interval story, and seats are unlimited on ours. |
| 50 monitors | $175.00 | Pro, $39 | Uptimehub | They give 10 logins, we do not cap logins at all. |
| 100 monitors | $350.00 | Pro, $39 | Uptimehub | Nine times the price. Their checkpoint network is far larger. |
| 400 monitors | $1,400.00 | Business, $99 | Uptimehub | Both publish a price at this size, which is unusual. |
| A 5 step checkout journey | $208.33 on Pro | Not offered | Uptrends | We do not sell scripted transaction monitoring. They do. |
| Checks from inside your firewall | Enterprise quote | Not offered | Uptrends | Private checkpoints are an Uptrends capability we have no answer to. |
| OpenTelemetry and Terraform | Enterprise quote | Not offered | Uptrends | Monitoring as code and OTel export are genuinely enterprise features. |
When Uptrends is the right buy
You need scripted transaction monitoring on a checkout or a login with MFA, you need checks from specific cities rather than regions, you need to watch services that never touch the public internet, or you are standardizing monitoring across an organization with OpenTelemetry and Terraform. None of that is what a flat per-monitor uptime plan is for, and we would rather say so than pretend the categories overlap.
When the credit model is working against you
You bought Uptrends for one transaction monitor and now run ninety uptime checks alongside it, all billed at the Pro credit rate. That is the pattern worth auditing: pull your monitor list, multiply by 6, 50 and 15, and see what share of your credit spend is plain availability checking. If it is most of it, that part of the estate is paying an enterprise rate for a commodity check. Our uptime monitoring pricing comparison puts every vendor's billing model side by side.
Uptrends pricing questions
How much does Uptrends cost?
Uptrends costs $7 per monitoring credit per year on the Core plan and $10 on Pro, read from their own rate card in September 2026. Because an uptime monitor uses 6 credits, that is $42 a year per uptime monitor on Core and $60 on Pro, or $3.50 and $5.00 a month. A browser monitor uses 50 credits, so $350 and $500 a year. Enterprise is quoted individually and no figure is published.
What are Uptrends monitoring credits?
Monitoring credits are the unit Uptrends bills in. Each monitor type consumes a fixed number of them: 6 for an uptime monitor, 50 for a browser monitor, 50 per step for a transaction monitor and 15 per step for an API monitor. Uptrends describes credits as annual monitoring capacity that you can reallocate between monitor types at any time during your term, and that do not expire inside that term.
How many credits does an uptime monitor use?
Six. That is the unitsRequired value published on the pricing page for the uptime monitor type in September 2026. At the Core rate of $7 a credit a year, six credits is $42 a year, which the vendor displays as $4 a month. Note that their support knowledge base describes credits differently, so if a salesperson quotes you a credit count, confirm which of the two definitions the quote uses.
Does Uptrends have a free plan?
Not on the price list. The pricing page shows three cards, Core, Pro and Enterprise, and none of them is free. What Uptrends offers instead is a 30 day trial that starts you on full Enterprise access with no credit card, and lets you switch to any plan during the trial. There is a dormant free entry in the page rate card, but it lists no supported monitor types and no card is rendered for it.
Is Uptrends expensive?
For plain uptime checks, yes, measurably. One hundred uptime monitors on Core costs $4,200 a year, which is $350 a month, against $39 a month for the same count on a flat per-monitor plan. What that money buys is a 230 plus checkpoint network, scripted transaction and multi step API monitoring, checks from inside your firewall, OpenTelemetry export and Terraform support. If you need those, the comparison is not really about the uptime price.
What is the difference between Uptrends Core and Pro?
Core buys US and EU checkpoint regions, 2 minute uptime checks, 10 users and 180 day retention, and it sells only uptime and browser monitors. Pro adds 230 plus individually selectable checkpoints, 1 minute uptime checks, 25 users, 365 day retention, SLA monitoring, waterfall charts and, critically, transaction and API monitoring. The catch is that Pro re-prices every credit from $7 to $10, so upgrading raises the cost of monitors you already own by 42.9 percent.
Does Uptrends charge per user?
No, it caps them instead. Core allows 10 users, Pro allows 25 and Enterprise is unlimited. The pricing page publishes no rate for buying an additional seat, so once you pass a cap the practical answer is to move up a plan. That is a friendlier model than a per-seat charge for a small team and a harder one for a large read-only audience such as a support desk that just wants dashboard access.
Is Uptrends pricing the same in dollars, euros and pounds?
No, and the relationship is a fixed multiplier rather than a market price. Every euro figure in their rate card is exactly 0.85 times the dollar figure and every pound figure is exactly 0.75 times it, across all seven published prices with no rounding drift. Their page also maps countries to currencies automatically, US to USD, GB to GBP and 21 euro-zone countries to EUR, so a figure you find quoted elsewhere may be another country list.
Is Uptrends annual billing worth it?
It saves 9.09 percent, not the 10 percent the toggle advertises. Their own billing model treats the annual price as the base and adds a 10 percent surcharge for monthly, and a 10 percent surcharge in one direction is a 9.09 percent saving in the other. On 100 uptime monitors on Core that is $4,200 a year against $4,620, so the real saving is $420. Worth taking, just not quite the number on the label.
What is a good Uptrends alternative?
It depends which half of the product you actually use. If you bought Uptrends for scripted transaction and multi step API monitoring from 230 checkpoints, the honest alternatives are other enterprise synthetic tools such as Datadog Synthetics, Dynatrace or Catchpoint, not a cheaper uptime monitor. If in practice you run uptime checks and a status page, a flat per-monitor plan does that job for a fraction of the credit cost.
Keep costing the decision
Uptrends alternative
The feature by feature comparison, for when the credit maths has already told you what you needed to know.
Synthetic monitoring pricing
Every vendor that sells scripted browser and transaction checks, and what a step costs on each of them.
Uptime monitoring pricing comparison
Ten billing models side by side, from flat per monitor to credits to quantity ladders.
Site24x7 pricing
The other currency-localized price list in this market, where the ladder runs backwards on monitoring locations.
Pingdom pricing
No named plans at all, just a 22 step quantity ladder where three meters compete to set your tier.
Uptimehub pricing
Four plans, published in full, priced per monitor with every check type and a branded status page in all of them.
One monitor, one price, no credit conversion
Every check type draws on the same allowance, seats are unlimited on every plan, and the price does not change when you add a different kind of check. If you genuinely need scripted transactions from 230 cities, Uptrends is the better product and this page has said so.