Uptime.com is aimed at businesses that have decided monitoring is worth buying properly. More than a hundred global probe locations, scripted transaction checks, API monitoring, SLA reporting and two years of check history — and a pricing model where you assemble what you need rather than pick a row from a table.
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Is Uptime.com worth it?
For a business with a real availability commitment, yes. The global probe coverage is genuinely extensive, the check types go well beyond ping-and-hope, and the SLA reporting exists because their customers have to prove uptime to somebody. The friction is commercial rather than technical: there is no free tier, the modules are priced separately, and working out what you will actually pay takes a pass through their calculator.
Uptime.com is a website and infrastructure monitoring platform built for businesses. Beyond basic availability it offers synthetic transaction monitoring, API checks, page speed monitoring, webhook and heartbeat checks, and group checks that combine several signals into one verdict.
Its strongest structural advantage is the probe network: more than a hundred global locations with IPv4 and IPv6 support, and private location monitoring for internal systems. Access to the probe locations themselves is not the thing you pay for — the checks are.
Pricing is assembled rather than listed. Website monitoring starts at around $9 a month on their calculator, the named Starter plan is $20 a month, and the Premium tier at $285 a month includes 200 basic checks, 15 transaction checks, 20 API checks, 5 page speed checks and 15 group checks. Status pages and real user monitoring are separate modules.
Breadth of check types and genuine global coverage.
IPv4 and IPv6, plus private location monitoring for internal systems. This is the clearest reason to choose it over a cheaper tool.
Scripted multi-step journeys, with micro-transaction and extended transaction variants for different depths of checking.
Endpoint checks treated as a first-class type rather than an HTTP check with extra steps.
Reporting designed for organisations that have to demonstrate uptime to a customer or a regulator.
Two years of retention, far beyond the 30 to 90 days typical at this price point.
Several signals combined into a single pass or fail, which cuts the noise when one system depends on several others.
Assembled from modules, with a 30-day money-back guarantee and over 20% off annually.
| Plan | Price/mo | Included | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calculator entry | From $9 | Website monitoring | Built to your configuration |
| Starter | $20 | Advanced website monitoring | Entry named plan |
| Essential | Mid tier | Extended Starter | Aimed at small business |
| Premium | $285 | 200 basic, 15 transaction, 20 API checks | Plus 5 page speed and 15 group checks |
| Status pages / RUM | From $19 / $5 | Separate modules | Bought alongside, not included |
Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement. Every figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
Their probe network is the honest difference and it is a large one. Uptime.com checks from more than a hundred locations worldwide; our checks run from a single location. If your question is whether the site is reachable from Sydney while fine from London, they answer it and we cannot.
They also do transaction scripting, group checks and 24-month retention, none of which we offer. If an SLA has to be evidenced, their reporting is built for that and ours is not.
What we offer is a much smaller bill and a wider mix of monitor types for ordinary work. $19 a month covers 50 monitors that can be uptime checks, certificates, domain expiry, page content changes or cron heartbeats, with status pages included rather than a separate module.
The honest split: a business with global users and an SLA to prove — theirs, and it is the right purchase. Knowing that a set of sites, certificates, domains and pages are all still fine, cheaply — ours.
Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.
Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
No. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee rather than a free tier. Access to their probe server locations is free, but the checks that use them are what you pay for.
Website monitoring starts at around $9 a month on their pricing calculator, with a named Starter plan at $20 a month and Premium at $285. Status pages start at $19 a month and real user monitoring at $5, both as separate modules. Annual billing saves over 20%.
More than 100 global probe locations with IPv4 and IPv6 support, plus private location monitoring for systems that are not publicly reachable.
Several individual checks combined into one pass-or-fail result. It reduces alert noise when a service depends on multiple components and you only want to hear about the overall state.
200 basic checks, 15 transaction checks, 20 API checks, 5 page speed checks from multiple locations and 15 group checks, at $285 a month.
Up to 24 months, which is considerably longer than most competitors at comparable prices and matters for SLA reporting.
Not really. The platform is built for businesses with global users and reporting obligations, and a small site will pay for capability it never uses.
They check from 100+ locations and we check from one; they do transaction scripting and SLA reporting and we do not. We cover 50 monitors for $19 a month including certificates, domains, page content changes and heartbeats, with status pages included.
Last updated August 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
No global probe network and no SLA reporting — but uptime, SSL, domains, page changes and heartbeats from $5 a month.