Free plan guide

This page explains what the free plan includes, where its limits are, and what Pro and Team add. The free plan is a complete monitoring setup, not a trial, and needs no card.

#What free includes

• 5 monitors in 1 project, checked every 5 minutes, with alerts when they go down and when they recover.
• HTTP, Keyword, Heartbeat, and Port check types.
• Push notifications on the UptimeX app, plus Slack, Discord, and webhook channels.
• Authenticated checks: request headers, request bodies for write methods, and up to 4 text content rules per monitor.
• Custom timeouts, slow thresholds, expected status codes, and redirect following.
• 1 maintenance window per project at a time.
• 7 days of history.
• The REST API and MCP with API keys, at 30 requests a minute.

#What is locked

• The API, DNS, and Scheduler check types.
• SSL certificate and domain expiry checks, and JSON field rules.
• Email channels.
• Incidents, the incident policy, status pages, and custom domains.
• Team members, the audit log, and on-call escalation, which are on Team.

Locked features show a padlock in the dashboard, with the plan that unlocks them. Alerts on the free plan follow the default incident policy: a confirmed problem alerts after 5 minutes, and the all-clear after 10 minutes of recovery.

#Limits at a glance

For every limit and what happens when you reach one, see Plans and limits. For prices, see pricing.

#Making the most of free

• Point one monitor at your most important page and add a content rule, so you know the page rendered and not only that it returned 200.
• A heartbeat costs nothing on your side: have a cron job call its ping URL and you will know when the job silently stops.
• Monitors are counted per account and free gives you one project, so spend the 5 on distinct services.
• Automate with the API or an AI agent instead of clicking through the dashboard.

#What's next?

• Plans and limits: every cap by plan.
• Create a monitor: the fields the free plan unlocks.