An UptimeRobot alternative priced per domain, with every check included.
UptimeRobot charges per monitor, and its free plan leaves out SSL, domain expiry and DNS checks. Pingerer charges per domain, with uptime, SSL, domain, DNS and email checks included for each one.
UptimeRobot is one of the best-known uptime monitors, and its free plan is generous: 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes, and you're allowed to use it for your business. If all you need is to know whether a page loads, it's hard to beat.
The difference is what you're paying for. UptimeRobot charges per monitor, and a monitor is one check on one site. Pingerer charges per domain, and each domain includes its uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiry, DNS and email setup checks. So one website on Pingerer is several monitors on UptimeRobot.
Side by side
| Feature | Pingerer | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| How it's priced | Per domain, with every check included | Per monitor (one check on one site) |
| Free plan | 1 domain with every check, every 5 minutes, from 1 region | 50 monitors, checks every 5 minutes, business use allowed |
| What the free plan leaves out | Faster checks, more regions, team members, texts | SSL and domain expiry, DNS, heartbeats and checks from more than one place |
| Cheapest paid plan | $5/month, which covers up to 5 domains | Solo, $10/month for 10 monitors |
| About 50 websites | $21/month for 50 domains | $22/month (Solo, 50 monitors) |
| About 100 websites | $36/month for 100 domains | $41/month (Team, 100 monitors) |
| Fastest checks | Every minute, or every 30 seconds with fast checks (+10%) | 60 seconds on Solo, 30 on Team, 15 on Scale |
| SSL and domain expiry | On paid plans | |
| DNS change alerts | On paid plans | |
| Heartbeats for backups and scheduled jobs | On paid plans | |
| Team members | Unlimited on Paid | 1 on Solo, 3 on Team (extra seats about $15 to $19 each) |
| Text alerts | 25 a month on Paid, then packs | One-time SMS credits |
| White-label status pages | On Paid | From Team ($41/month) |
What you'd pay
| Websites | Pingerer, a month | UptimeRobot, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | $5 | $10 |
| 10 | $9 | $10 |
| 50 | $21 | $22 |
| 100 | $36 | $41 |
| 200 | $61 | $77 |
| 500 | $136 | $179 |
Their price is their cheapest plan that fits, billed monthly, counting one monitor per website, from their pricing page on October 22, 2026. Ours is the price list today, worked out the same way as on our pricing page.
Where UptimeRobot is the better fit
- You only need to know a page is up, for free. Their free plan watches 50 monitors; ours watches 1 domain, with every check on it.
- You want checks every 15 seconds. Their Scale plans go that fast. Ours go to every 30 seconds.
Where Pingerer is the better fit
- You want everything about a site watched, not just the homepage. SSL, domain renewal, DNS changes and email setup come with every domain, on the free plan too.
- You look after lots of sites. The price per domain goes down as you add more, and your whole team and white-label status pages are included.
- You want plain-English alerts that say what failed and what usually fixes it.
Switching takes a few minutes
Sign up, open Sites › Bring your monitors, choose UptimeRobot and paste a read-only API key. Pingerer shows you everything it found before it adds anything, and nothing changes in your UptimeRobot account, so you can run both side by side until you're happy. How importing works.
UptimeRobot's details are from their pricing page on October 22, 2026, with monthly billing in US dollars. Prices and plans change, so check there for the latest. UptimeRobot is a trademark of its owner; Pingerer isn't affiliated with them.
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Pingerer vs Pingdom
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