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.
Figures below come from Uptime.com’s own pages, checked on .
What Uptime.com costs
Website Monitoring (entry)
$9/mo
10 basic checks · 1 advanced check · 25 SMS alerts ($84/yr billed yearly)
Website Monitoring
$38/mo
50 basic checks · 5 advanced checks · 75 SMS alerts ($360/yr billed yearly)
Website Monitoring
$75/mo
100 basic checks · 10 advanced checks · 100 SMS alerts ($720/yr billed yearly)
Uptime.com sells one plan sized by quantity; three of its published sizes are shown, at their monthly rates with the yearly totals in brackets. There is no free plan — they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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 | Uptime.com |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓10 monitors · 2 regions · status page | —30-day money-back guarantee |
| Multi-region checks on free | ✓2 regions | —no free plan |
| Origin-vs-network diagnosis | ✓on every alert | ? |
| Status page on free | ✓badge + JSON too | —no free plan |
| Charges per responder / seat | —never | —unlimited users |
| Browser / transaction checks | ✓Pro and up (1,500/mo) | ✓transaction monitoring |
| MCP server for AI agents | ✓paid plans | ? |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
✓ yes · — no · ? not published by Uptime.com. Where they publish nothing on an axis we say so rather than assuming the answer.
Ten things watched, before you pay anything
Uptime.com’s smallest plan is $9 a month for ten basic checks. There is no free tier underneath it: when the money-back window closes, you are a paying customer or you are not monitoring.
Our free plan covers 10 monitors from one region each (or 5 from 2 regions), with a public status page you are allowed to use commercially, and it does not expire.
| Ten things you want watched | Uptime.com | UptimeGlobe |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $9 | $0 |
| First year, billed yearly | $84 | $0 |
| When the guarantee ends | Keep paying or stop | Nothing happens |
Uptime.com column: their published entry size — 10 basic checks, 1 advanced check and 25 SMS alerts. UptimeGlobe column: our free plan, 10 monitors from one region each on a 5-minute interval, with a status page, badge and JSON feed.
An NTP check that alerts where you draw the line
Uptime.com documents its NTP check as alerting when a server’s clock is more than one second out, and describes no way to set a tighter limit. One second is a long way off for anything that orders events by time: logs that need to line up across machines, databases that settle conflicts by timestamp, tokens and signatures that expire.
On UptimeGlobe you set the limit yourself, from 10 ms upward, on every plan including the free one. A clock that starts to drift raises an alert while it is still a small problem, not once it is a second wrong.
What we do differently
Every UptimeGlobe check runs from several regions at once and the results get compared, so an alert arrives already classified: unreachable everywhere points at your origin, unreachable from only some regions points at the route in between.
You also get public status pages with badges and a JSON feed on every plan, heartbeat monitors that page you when a cron job stops running, TLS expiry warnings, and an MCP server your AI assistant can drive.
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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.
Start monitoring free