Upclock vs
the field.
Honest, numbers-first comparisons against the tools you're probably evaluating. No marketing fluff — we acknowledge where they win too.
50 monitors at 30 seconds — what you'd actually pay
Annual prices, headline tier required to hit 50 monitors at a 30-second check interval (or the closest tier available). Status-page-only and incident-response tools are priced for their nearest-equivalent configuration.
- Better StackAll-in-One50 monitors @ 30s$50/moCompare
- UptimeRobotUptime50 monitors @ 60s$45/moCompare
- PingdomUptime50 monitors @ 60s$50–65/moCompare
- OpenStatusUptime50 monitors @ 30s$100/moCompare
- HyperpingUptime50 monitors @ 30s$24/moCompare
- ChecklyUptime50 monitors + retention$24/moCompare
- Atlassian StatuspageStatus PagesStatus page (no monitor)$29/moCompare
- InstatusStatus Pages50 monitors + status$15/moCompare
- Incident.ioIncident Response5-person team + status$125–225/moCompare
- UpclockUptime + status pages50 monitors @ 30s, 3 status pages$8/mo
Sources: each competitor's current public pricing page as of May 2026.
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Each page shows side-by-side pricing, a full feature matrix, and an honest take on when to pick them instead of us.
- All-in-One
Upclock vs Better Stack
A unified observability suite that bundles logs, APM, uptime, and on-call. Powerful, but the bill grows with every line item.
Read comparison - Uptime
Upclock vs UptimeRobot
The household name in uptime monitoring. Free tier rug-pulled to non-commercial only in 2024, dashboard still polls, and per-seat fees climb fast.
Read comparison - Uptime
Upclock vs Pingdom
Pingdom invented the category in 2007. After the SolarWinds acquisition the roadmap stalled, the mobile apps were killed in 2021, and the status page still serves custom domains over plaintext HTTP.
Read comparison - Uptime
Upclock vs OpenStatus
A bootstrapped two-person team has built one of the prettiest uptime tools in the category — AGPL-licensed and self-hostable. Cloud pricing is the steepest in this comparison, though.
Read comparison - Uptime
Upclock vs Hyperping
Hyperping has been around since 2017 and is widely respected in the indie maker community. It has features Upclock doesn't (browser checks, on-call rotations, voice alerts) — and a price tag to match.
Read comparison - Uptime
Upclock vs Checkly
Checkly is the right tool when you need to script multi-step user flows in Playwright and pipe traces into OpenTelemetry. If "is my site up?" is your actual question, it's overkill.
Read comparison - Status Pages
Upclock vs Atlassian Statuspage
Statuspage built the category in 2013, was acquired by Atlassian in 2016, and hasn't changed much since. It's a status communication tool — you still need to buy the monitor that feeds it.
Read comparison - Status Pages
Upclock vs Instatus
Instatus has the best-looking, fastest status pages in the category. They added light monitoring recently — but most users still pair it with a real uptime tool.
Read comparison - Incident Response
Upclock vs Incident.io
Incident.io coordinates the human response to outages. It is genuinely best-in-class. It is also $25–$45 per responder per month and does not run a single check against your services.
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