UptimeGlobe vs UptimeRobot
The category’s default choice. What changes here is that every check comes back with a diagnosis instead of a colour.
Free $0 · Solo $10/mo
Read the full comparison →Uptime monitoring tools, compared
We make one of these, so read accordingly — but every price here was read from the vendor's own published pricing rather than a roundup, and we show the date we checked it.
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| Feature | UptimeGlobe | UptimeRobot | Better Stack | Pingdom | StatusCake | Uptime.com | Uptime Kuma | OneUptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓10 monitors | ✓50 monitors, 5-min | ✓10 monitors, 3-min | —free trial only | ✓10 monitors, 5-min | —30-day money-back guarantee | ✓entirely free | ✓active monitors billed per monitor |
| Multi-region checks on free | ✓2 regions | —one region on Free; paid plans rotate regions, one per check | ? | —no free plan | ? | —no free plan | —one instance = one vantage point | ? |
| Origin-vs-network diagnosis | ✓on every alert | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | —single vantage point | ? |
| Charges per responder / seat | — | —plan-based pricing | ✓$34/responder/mo | —priced by check volume | —plan-based pricing | —unlimited users | — | ✓paid plans from $22/user |
| Self-hostable | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓self-hosted only | ✓Apache 2.0 Community Edition |
? means the vendor does not publish an answer on that axis. We would rather say so than guess on their behalf.
The tools, one by one
UptimeGlobe vs Better Stack
A polished product with a pricing model that charges you for having colleagues.
Free $0 · Monitors $25/mo per 50
Read the full comparison →UptimeGlobe vs Pingdom
The incumbent brand, priced per check bundle — and with no free plan at the end of the trial.
Synthetic Monitoring from $16.50/mo · Real User Monitoring from $16.50/mo
Read the full comparison →UptimeGlobe vs StatusCake
A broad, agency-friendly toolkit — priced well above our line once you leave the free plan.
Free $0 · Superior $24.49/mo
Read the full comparison →UptimeGlobe vs Uptime.com
A long check-type list, sold in bundles from $9 a month — with no free plan, and an NTP check fixed at one second.
Website Monitoring (entry) $9/mo · Website Monitoring $38/mo
Read the full comparison →UptimeGlobe vs Uptime Kuma
Excellent open-source software. The question isn’t what it costs, it’s who gets paged when the monitor itself goes down.
Self-hosted Free (MIT) · Hosted option —
Read the full comparison →UptimeGlobe vs OneUptime
A big open-source suite that does a bit of everything. We do one job: tell you what broke, and whether it was you or the network.
Free $0 · Growth $22/mo
Read the full comparison →Where we fit
UptimeGlobe is for people who want to know why something is down, not just that it is. Every plan checks from multiple regions and every alert carries a verdict: your origin, or the network path. Free for 10 monitors from 2 regions, $10/mo after that.
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