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.
Figures below come from OneUptime’s own pages, checked on .
What OneUptime costs
Free
$0
1 status page · 100 subscribers · active monitors $1/mo each
Growth
$22/mo
Unlimited status pages · on-call · API access
Scale
$99/mo
SSO · unlimited teams · advanced access control
Enterprise
Custom
Custom retention and data residency
Monthly prices as published on OneUptime’s pricing page, whose title reads “Paid Plans From $22/User”. Active monitors are billed on top, starting at $1 per monitor per month; SMS and calls at $0.10 each. A self-hosted Community Edition is free under Apache 2.0.
For reference, UptimeGlobe is free for 10 monitors with checks from 2 regions, and $10/mo for our Starter plan — the full table is on our pricing page.
Side by side
| Feature | UptimeGlobe | OneUptime |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓10 monitors · 2 regions · status page | ✓active monitors billed per monitor |
| Multi-region checks on free | ✓2 regions | ? |
| Origin-vs-network diagnosis | ✓on every alert | ? |
| Status page on free | ✓badge + JSON too | ✓one page, 100 subscribers |
| Charges per responder / seat | —never | ✓paid plans from $22/user |
| Browser / transaction checks | ✓Pro and up (1,500/mo) | ✓Playwright |
| MCP server for AI agents | ✓paid plans | ✓ |
| Self-hostable | — | ✓Apache 2.0 Community Edition |
✓ yes · — no · ? not published by OneUptime. Where they publish nothing on an axis we say so rather than assuming the answer.
A suite, or an answer
OneUptime bundles monitoring with on-call, logs, metrics, traces and workflows. If you want one platform for all of that and are happy to run or pay for it, that is a coherent choice.
We built something narrower on purpose. Every monitor is checked from more than one region, and when it fails the alert tells you whether your origin or the network path broke, so the first minute of an incident is spent fixing, not working out what kind of problem you have.
What you pay for
We price on what you monitor, because that is what consumes our infrastructure. Everyone who should be paged can be, on every channel, at no extra cost per person.
All 13 alert channels, checks from multiple regions on every tier including free, public status pages with badges and a JSON feed, heartbeat monitors for the cron jobs nobody watches, TLS expiry warnings, and an MCP server your AI assistant can drive. $10 a month, however many people you page.
Prices move. Tell us if one of these is out of date.
Try the difference on the free plan
10 monitors, checks from 2 regions, a status page you can use commercially, and a diagnosis on every alert. No card.
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