Uptime monitoring: cheapest modeled plans
Eligible plans ordered by monthly equivalent at the workload below. A low subscription fee alone does not establish the cheapest total.
What this comparison covers
Business HTTP uptime checks. Check intervals differ by provider. Browser tests, logs, tracing, SMS, additional status pages and AI are excluded. Personal-only free plans are not commercial substitutes.
Evaluating 3 products from 3 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- HTTP monitors
- 10 monitors
- Responders or team members
- 1 people
Cost ranking at this workload
3 eligible products. Quote-only, expired and unsupported configurations are excluded from cost rankings.
StatusCake
HTTP uptime checks with monthly plans.
$0 / month
Free
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- 5-minute checks. SMS and additional testing products are excluded.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
Free: $0/month at reference usage.
UptimeRobot
HTTP monitoring with annual business plans.
$12.00 / month
Solo · annual commitment · Annual commitment $144.00
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $12.00
- Annual commitment. The comparison shows its monthly equivalent; seats and workload are held constant for the full year.
- 60-second checks. Personal/nonprofit-only Free is excluded from this business workload.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
Solo · annual commitment: $12.00/month at reference usage.
Better Stack Uptime
Incident responders plus blocks of monitors.
$34.00 / month
Responder
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-06
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Responders: $34.00
- Additional monitor blocks (10 included): $0
- Ten monitors and one status page included. Extra monitors are bought in blocks of fifty. Personal-only Free is excluded.
- Taxes, promotions, prorations, negotiated contracts and optional add-ons.
- Additional status pages, SMS, logs and tracing.
Responder: $34.00/month at reference usage.
Questions before you decide
Which Uptime monitoring product is cheapest?
StatusCake has a lowest modeled cost among the eligible products shown at reference usage. Ties share a rank. This is not a claim about every vendor or workload.