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$84 per year
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  1. Construction
  2. Real estate and property management
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What is UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot is a hosted website and endpoint monitoring service focused on uptime checks and alerting. It is used by developers, IT teams, and small businesses to monitor websites, APIs, ports, and SSL certificate expiration and to receive notifications when checks fail. The product emphasizes quick setup, a large set of notification channels, and public status pages for communicating incidents.

pros

Fast, simple uptime checks

The service provides straightforward HTTP(s), keyword, ping, port, and heartbeat monitoring with minimal configuration. This makes it suitable for teams that need basic availability monitoring without deploying their own monitoring stack. It also supports SSL certificate and domain expiration monitoring to reduce common operational surprises.

Broad alerting integrations

UptimeRobot supports multiple notification methods such as email, SMS (plan-dependent), voice calls (plan-dependent), and common chat/on-call tools via integrations and webhooks. This flexibility helps teams route alerts to the right channel for different severities. Alert contacts and escalation-style routing can be configured through alert contacts and notification rules.

Status pages for communication

The product includes public status pages that can display monitor status and incident history. This helps organizations share availability information with customers or internal stakeholders without building a separate status site. Status pages can be configured to include selected monitors and to control visibility.

cons

Limited deep observability

UptimeRobot focuses on synthetic uptime and basic endpoint checks rather than full-stack observability. It does not provide application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, or code-level error diagnostics typical of broader monitoring platforms. Teams often need additional tools for root-cause analysis beyond availability signals.

Check depth is constrained

While keyword and HTTP checks cover many scenarios, complex multi-step user journeys and advanced scripting are not the core focus. For example, validating authenticated flows, complex transactions, or detailed performance metrics may require more specialized synthetic monitoring. This can limit its usefulness for monitoring rich web applications end-to-end.

Reporting and analytics are basic

Historical reporting is oriented around uptime percentages and response-time trends rather than advanced analytics. Organizations needing custom dashboards, long-term retention analysis, or correlation across infrastructure and application signals may find the reporting insufficient. Export and API usage may be required to build richer reporting externally.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price (annual / monthly) Key features & notes
Free $0 / month 50 monitors; 5-minute monitoring interval; HTTP/port/ping monitoring; Keyword monitoring; DNS monitoring; basic status pages; up to 5 third-party integrations; no login seats; intended for hobby/personal projects (no credit card required).
Solo $84 / year (annual, shown on site) — $8 / month (monthly option shown) Options for 10 or 50 monitors; 60-second monitoring interval; HTTP/port/ping and Keyword monitoring; location-specific monitoring; slow-response alerts; DNS monitoring; SSL & domain expiry monitoring; ~9 integrations; notify seats available; no login seats.
Team $348 / year (annual) — $34 / month (monthly) 100 monitors; 60-second monitoring interval; all 12 integrations; full-featured status pages; DNS & SSL monitoring; 3 notify seats and 3 login seats included.
Enterprise Starts at $648 / year (annual) — $64 / month (monthly); higher enterprise tiers shown on site: 200 monitors ($64/mo monthly / $54/mo annual equivalent shown), 500 monitors ($149/mo monthly / $124/mo annual equivalent shown), 1,000+ monitors ($376/mo monthly / $289/mo annual equivalent shown) 200 / 500 / 1,000+ monitor tiers; 30-second monitoring interval (for higher tiers); all integrations; full status pages; 5 notify seats and 5 login seats included; "Get quote" / Enterprise demo available for custom solutions.

Additional official charges from the vendor page:

  • SMS / voice call credits (one-time purchases): 10 credits — $3.00; 100 credits — $15.00; 200 credits — $25.00; 500 credits — $55.00; 1000 credits — $100.00.
  • 10-day money-back guarantee stated on the pricing page.

Notes: Prices and the display on the official pricing page show both annual (discounted) and monthly amounts and multiple monitor-size options under some plans. All data extracted from the vendor's official pricing page.

Seller details

UptimeRobot, Inc.
2010
Private
https://uptimerobot.com/
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