UptimeRobot review

UptimeRobot checks websites, APIs, servers, and other endpoints for availability, slow responses, certificate problems, and changes. It can monitor HTTP(S), keywords, ping, ports, cron jobs, DNS, SSL certificates, and response times. Checks can run from up to four regions, which can help identify outages that affect users in one location but not another.

When a monitor detects a problem, UptimeRobot sends alerts. It also includes status pages for sharing uptime, incidents, and maintenance updates, plus incident-management tools for team notes, timelines, and status updates. That makes it a fit for teams that want external availability checks and a way to communicate incidents in one service. It is not a full replacement for internal infrastructure monitoring; one Reddit commenter said an RMM was better suited to monitoring servers and internal systems.

The pricing page lists a free plan and paid tiers, with monthly billing or annual billing shown as a per-month equivalent. Annual prices are advertised as saving about 15%.

UptimeRobot covers more than basic website pings. Monitor types include HTTP(S), keyword checks, ping, ports, cron jobs, DNS, SSL certificates, and response times. Keyword monitoring can also help catch application errors that a simple HTTP status check may miss: a commenter on r/msp said they switched to text-based checks to address false positives and catch problems inside a hosted application.

The free plan includes 50 monitors, five-minute checks, one status page, five integrations, and three months of data retention, according to the pricing page. That is a useful starting point for personal or commercial projects, provided five-minute intervals are fast enough. For teams that need quicker checks, Solo lists 60-second intervals, while Team lists 30-second intervals and Scale lists 15-second intervals.

Status pages and incident tools give teams a way to share incidents and maintenance updates alongside monitoring. Team includes 100 status pages; Scale includes unlimited status pages. For small teams running production services, the pricing page lists 100 monitors, 20 third-party service monitors, and three included seats on Team. Those limits are clear enough to compare before switching, rather than relying on a vague “contact sales” quote.

The free tier’s five-minute interval is a real constraint if you need faster alerts. Solo improves that to 60 seconds, but only includes 10 monitors and one third-party service monitor. Team is the first listed plan with 30-second checks, and it costs €41 monthly or €35 per month with annual billing, according to the pricing page. Scale starts at €77 monthly or €65 per month annually for 15-second checks. The page lists 200 or 500 monitors for Scale, so check which count applies to the offer you are considering.

Price changes have also frustrated some long-time customers. In one Reddit thread, a user said a legacy plan for 30–35 monitors was being moved from $8 to $34 per month; another reported a Solo price increase. Those are individual reports, not a guarantee of what existing customers will pay, but they make renewal terms worth checking.

Reliability reports are mixed. Some r/msp commenters describe false positives, especially with heartbeat or server monitoring, while others say it works well for websites and WAN checks. Additional login seats are listed at $15/19 per month, but the pricing page does not clarify the two prices. Additional notify-only seat pricing is not published.

According to the pricing page, UptimeRobot has a free plan and four paid tiers, with monthly and annual billing. Annual prices are per-month equivalents and the page advertises savings of about 15%.

• Free: €0, with 50 monitors, five-minute checks, one status page and three months of data retention.
• Solo: €10 monthly or €9 annually. It includes 10 monitors and 60-second checks, so the monitor allowance is lower than Free even as the check interval gets faster.
• Team: €41 monthly or €35 annually, with 100 monitors and 30-second checks. That's a €31 monthly jump from Solo.
• Scale: €77 monthly or €65 annually, with 200 or 500 monitors and 15-second checks. The page lists two monitor counts but doesn’t say what determines which applies.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing.

Extra login seats are listed at $15/19 per month, with no explanation for the two prices. SMS and voice credits are one-time purchases, from $3 for 10 credits. Additional notify-only seat pricing isn’t published.

The published material doesn’t document an import tool, migration steps, data export options or contract terms. We can’t say how much manual work a move will take or whether historical monitoring data can be transferred; confirm those details with UptimeRobot before switching. The pricing page lists data retention of three months on Free, 12 months on Solo, and doesn’t specify retention for the other tiers in the published details.

We also don’t have Reddit posts or comments in the published material, so we can’t responsibly attribute common reasons for leaving to users there. On the published plan details, likely pressure points are the five-minute Free interval if you need faster checks, the jump from Solo to Team, and the custom Enterprise price. If you’re moving away, compare monitor counts, check intervals, status pages, integrations and retention against the replacement before cancelling. UptimeRobot’s published feature list covers website and API monitoring, but it doesn’t establish whether it fits teams that need deep internal infrastructure monitoring.