UptimeX vs UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot is the freemium default: fifty free monitors and a check every five minutes. UptimeX starts smaller and goes deeper on each check, with a native app that gets the push, a third state for slow responses, and a latency breakdown that says whether it was the network or your server.
What’s the difference between UptimeX and UptimeRobot?
Both check your URLs on a schedule and tell you when they fail. They differ in what a check means.
UptimeRobot optimises for breadth: many monitors, many integrations, a generous free tier. UptimeX optimises for the signal in each check: every request is classified up, slow or down, split into connect time and time to first byte, and re-checked before an alert goes out. The app is native and push is the primary channel, not a companion to a web dashboard.
UptimeX vs UptimeRobot at a glance
The clearest differences are the free tier, what a single check tells you, and where the alert lands.
5 monitors, 5-minute checks, push and webhook alerts, 7 days of history
50 monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 basic status page, 3 months of history
1 minute on Pro and Team
60 seconds on Solo, 30 seconds on Team, 15 seconds on Scale
Flat plans. Pro is $7 a month, $5 billed annually; Team adds seats
Flat plans from around $9 a month; SMS and voice alerts sold as credits on top
HTTP, keyword, API, DNS, TCP port, heartbeat, scheduler
HTTP, keyword, API, ping, port, UDP, DNS, SSL and domain expiry
Native push first, plus Slack, Discord and webhooks on every plan; email on Pro and Team
Email, mobile push, SMS and voice via credits, Slack and Telegram; PagerDuty and webhooks on Team and up
Up, slow or down, with connect time and time to first byte split on every check
Up or down, with a response-time chart
Re-checks the failure, then alerts only on a state change
Confirms from a second location before marking down
Included, with incidents and maintenance windows
1 basic page on Free, custom domain on Solo, white-label on Team
Native app with push, same account on the web
Web dashboard with a companion iOS and Android app
Compare your setup across providers
Pick how many monitors you run and see the monthly list price side by side at 1-minute checks. No sales call, and no add-ons hidden in the number.
Each provider is priced at the cheapest published plan that covers this many monitors at 1-minute checks. Free tiers run slower and are left out.
- UptimeX$7/moPro covers 30 monitors, Team 50; the free plan checks every 5 minutes
- URUptimeRobotthis page$10/mo1.4×SMS and voice alerts are credits on top; the free plan checks every 5 minutes
- Better Stack$25/mo3.6×monitors come in blocks of 50; phone and SMS on-call needs a $34 Responder seat
- Pingdom$18/mo2.6×bundles of uptime checks with SMS included; no free plan
- Uptime Kuma≈$5/mo71%the software is free; the figure is a small VPS to run it on, before your time to update and back it up
Public list prices with monthly billing, read in November 2026; SMS, phone calls and extra seats are excluded. Check each provider's pricing page before deciding, and ours.
Common questions
Free tier and pricing
Yes, by monitor count. UptimeRobot gives you fifty free monitors; UptimeX gives you five. Both check every five minutes on the free tier. If you need to watch dozens of sites for free, UptimeRobot is the better deal. If you need to understand why one of them is slow, UptimeX is.
UptimeX Pro is $7 a month, or $5 billed annually, for 30 monitors at 1-minute checks. UptimeRobot Solo is around $9 a month billed annually for 10 monitors at 60-second checks, with SMS and voice alerts purchased as credits.
Switching
Yes. Add your URLs to UptimeX, point its Slack, Discord or webhook channel at the place UptimeRobot already posts, and run them side by side for a week. When both report the same incidents, pause the UptimeRobot monitors.
Push, Slack, Discord and webhooks are on every UptimeX plan, so the usual chat channels keep working. Email alerts are on Pro and Team. UptimeX does not send SMS or voice calls; native push on your phone takes that role.
Capabilities and fit
A slow state is a response that arrived but took longer than your threshold. It usually shows up before a full outage, and the connect versus time-to-first-byte split tells you whether to look at the network or the backend.
The free monitor count, SMS and voice-call alerts, a longer integration list including PagerDuty, Telegram and Microsoft Teams, and a long track record with a large user base. If those are the priority, UptimeRobot earns its place.
Which one is right for you?
Choose UptimeX if…
- You want the alert on your phone as a native push, not an email you find later
- You need to know whether a slowdown was the network or your server
- False alarms on a single blip have trained you to ignore alerts
- You watch a handful of services closely rather than dozens loosely
- You want heartbeats and scheduled jobs next to your HTTP checks
Choose UptimeRobot if…
- You need to monitor dozens of sites for free
- SMS or voice-call alerts are a requirement
- You depend on a specific integration such as PagerDuty or Telegram
Switching from UptimeRobot without a gap in coverage
Keep UptimeRobot running while UptimeX watches the same URLs. Compare the incidents for a week, then pause the old monitors one by one.
- 1Add the URLs you care about to UptimeX. The free plan covers five, Pro covers thirty.
- 2Point a Slack, Discord or webhook channel at the place UptimeRobot already posts, and install the app for push.
- 3When both tools report the same incidents, pause the UptimeRobot monitors.
See how UptimeX compares across the lineup
The same comparison for the other monitors people usually shortlist.