UptimeRobot vs Better Stack
Side by side, from each vendor's own pricing page.
Last checked (older of the two tools)
Differences
- UptimeRobot has 40 more free monitors than Better Stack (50 vs 10).
- UptimeRobot's entry plan costs $21 a month less ($13 vs $34, US dollars).
- UptimeRobot checks faster on a paid plan: every 15 s vs every 30 s.
Facts side by side
| Fact | UptimeRobot | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $13/monthQuote“Solo Monitor tier 10 monitors 50 monitors $13$12/month” |
$34/monthQuote“$34 $29 per license per month” |
| Pricing | Per planQuote“Solo Monitor tier 10 monitors 50 monitors $13$12/month” |
Per seatQuote“$34 $29 per license per month” |
| Billed | — | — |
| Monitors on entry plan | 10Quote“Subscribe now 10 monitors +1 Third party service monitorNew! Everything in Free, plus” |
10Quote“Monitors 10 monitors included” |
| Check interval on entry plan | 1 minQuote“Everything in Free, plus 60-second monitoring interval” |
30 sQuote“Up to 30 seconds check frequency” |
| Fastest check on any paid plan | 15 sQuote“Everything in Team, plus 15 sec. monitoring interval” |
30 sQuote“Up to 30 seconds check frequency” |
| Free-tier monitors | 50Quote“Free $0/month Good for personal and commercial projects. No credit card required! Register now 50 monitors” |
10Quote“Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for free 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page” |
| Has a status page (entry plan) | YesQuote“3 status pages, own domain” |
YesQuote“Access to Incidents, including on-call, monitoring and status pages, with unlimited phone call and SMS alerts.” |
| Alert channels | email, sms, voice call, slack, telegram, discord, webhook, pagerduty, ms teamsQuote“Email, SMS, Voice call, Email2SMS” |
e-mail, sms, phone call, slack, ms teams, webhook, push notificationQuote“with unlimited phone call and SMS alerts” |
| Uptime SLA | — | — |
| Checked |
— means the vendor's page does not state it plainly enough to verify. Cost per monitor is the entry price over the monitors included, in US dollars at ECB reference rates of 2026-11-06.
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