# UptimeRobot alternatives, compared plainly.

Compare UptimeRobot alternatives by free plan, Slack and Telegram alerts, page speed checks, cron job checks, and ChatGPT or Claude support.

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Sources checked: October 9, 2026

## Short answer

UptimeRobot's free plan checks 50 sites every 5 minutes, which is hard to beat if you only need to know when a site is down. People usually look elsewhere for one of four reasons: Slack or Telegram alerts without paying, page speed checks, checks that scheduled jobs (cron jobs, backups) ran, or running it on their own server.

Short version: Better Stack includes Slack alerts and scheduled-job checks for free on personal projects. Uptime Kuma is free if you host it yourself. StatusCake and Pingdom also check page speed. Healthchecks.io and Cronitor are built for scheduled jobs. nimo, which we make, watches whether your site is up, whether key pages got slower, and whether scheduled jobs ran, and you can ask it about your site in ChatGPT or Claude.

## Quick picks

Start from what you need most. Prices and plans change, so check the vendor's page before you buy.

1. Free and simple up/down alerts: Stay on UptimeRobot's free plan, or run Uptime Kuma yourself if you want Slack or Telegram alerts at no cost.
2. Alerts, status page, and on-call in one tool: Better Stack. Its free plan covers personal projects; team plans are priced per person on call.
3. Up/down plus page load times: StatusCake (free plan includes one daily speed test) or Pingdom (paid, with a free trial).
4. Only scheduled jobs and backups: Healthchecks.io (20 jobs free) or Cronitor (5 monitors free).
5. Down, slow, and missed jobs in one place, with answers in ChatGPT or Claude: nimo. It tells you when your site goes down or a key page gets slower, suggests what to look at first, and checks your scheduled jobs.

## How the alternatives compare

What each tool offers, from its own website. "Paid" means the feature isn't on the free plan.

### UptimeRobot

- Best for: simple up/down alerts on a generous free plan
- Free plan: 50 monitors, checked every 5 minutes
- Alerts: Slack and Telegram from Solo ($13/month)
- Page speed: No page speed checks; slow-response alerts on paid plans
- Scheduled jobs: Yes, on paid plans
- ChatGPT and Claude: Official connection (MCP)
- The one most people start with. Paid plans check every 15 to 60 seconds.
- Website: https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/

### Better Stack

- Best for: alerts, status pages, and on-call schedules together
- Free plan: 10 site or job monitors, 3-minute checks, personal projects
- Alerts: Slack and email on the free plan; Telegram not listed
- Page speed: Not in uptime checks; real-user web vitals are a separate product
- Scheduled jobs: Yes, including on the free plan
- ChatGPT and Claude: Official connection (MCP)
- Team plans start at $29 per on-call person per month, billed yearly.
- Website: https://betterstack.com/uptime

### StatusCake

- Best for: uptime plus basic page load testing
- Free plan: 10 uptime monitors every 5 minutes, 1 page speed test a day
- Alerts: Slack, Telegram, and 12 other integrations
- Page speed: Yes: load time, page size, and requests from a real browser
- Scheduled jobs: Yes (jobs report in when they run); plan limits not stated
- ChatGPT and Claude: No official connection listed; third-party ones exist
- Paid plans from $20.41/month billed yearly add more frequent speed tests.
- Website: https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/

### Uptime Kuma

- Best for: free monitoring you host yourself
- Free plan: Free and open source; you run it on your own server
- Alerts: Slack, Telegram, and 90+ other services
- Page speed: Response-time charts only, no page speed checks
- Scheduled jobs: Yes (jobs report in when they run)
- ChatGPT and Claude: Community-built connections only
- Costs nothing but your server. If that server goes down, your alerts stop too.
- Website: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

### Pingdom

- Best for: established uptime and page speed monitoring
- Free plan: No free plan; free trial
- Alerts: Slack; Telegram not listed
- Page speed: Yes: load time, requests, page size, per-file timing
- Scheduled jobs: Not listed
- ChatGPT and Claude: No official connection listed; third-party ones exist
- From $16.50/month billed yearly for 10 uptime checks.
- Website: https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/

### Healthchecks.io

- Best for: scheduled jobs and backups only
- Free plan: 20 jobs
- Alerts: Slack, Telegram, and many others
- Page speed: No; it doesn't check websites
- Scheduled jobs: Yes, it's the whole product
- ChatGPT and Claude: Unofficial connections only
- Open source, so you can also host it yourself.
- Website: https://healthchecks.io/pricing/

### Cronitor

- Best for: scheduled jobs plus basic site checks
- Free plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute checks
- Alerts: Email and Slack on the free plan; Telegram supported
- Page speed: Real-user monitoring measures load and layout shift
- Scheduled jobs: Yes, on every plan
- ChatGPT and Claude: Official connection (MCP)
- Paid plans cost $2 per monitor plus $5 per user each month.
- Website: https://cronitor.io/pricing

### nimo

- Best for: one helper for down, slow, and missed jobs that you can ask in ChatGPT or Claude
- Free plan: Free one-time page checks, no signup; watching your site starts at Pro
- Alerts: Slack and Telegram on Pro ($20/month for up to 10 sites)
- Page speed: Yes: checks key pages weekly on Pro, daily on Business, shows which got slower, and suggests what to look at first
- Scheduled jobs: Yes: add one line to a job and get told if it doesn't check in
- ChatGPT and Claude: Official connection (MCP) for ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants
- Not a status page or on-call tool, and not the cheapest choice for simple up/down alerts.
- Website: https://heynimo.com/website-performance-monitoring

## Why people switch from UptimeRobot

On the free plan, UptimeRobot doesn't send alerts to Slack or Telegram, doesn't check that scheduled jobs ran, and doesn't warn you when responses get slow. All three start on its Solo plan.

UptimeRobot also tells you whether your site answers, not how fast your pages load for visitors. If your site is up but slow, a separate page speed tool is what catches it.

## Where nimo fits

We make nimo, so weigh this part accordingly. nimo is for people who want one place to hear that their site is down, that an important page got slower, or that a backup didn't run, without stitching three tools together.

It checks that your site loads every 5 minutes and sends alerts to Slack or Telegram. It checks how fast your key pages load weekly on Pro or daily on Business; when they get slower, it shows which ones and by how much, and suggests what to look at first. You can connect it to ChatGPT or Claude and ask "is my site up?" or "why did my homepage get slower?".

If you only need up/down alerts, UptimeRobot's free plan or Uptime Kuma costs less.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is UptimeRobot still free?

Yes. As of October 9, 2026, its free plan covers 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes. Slack and Telegram alerts, scheduled-job checks, and slow-response alerts start on the Solo plan at $13 a month.

### What's the best free alternative to UptimeRobot?

Uptime Kuma if you can run your own server: it's free and alerts to Slack, Telegram, and more. Better Stack's free plan suits personal projects and includes Slack alerts and scheduled-job checks. StatusCake's free plan adds a daily page speed test.

### Which alternatives also check page speed?

StatusCake and Pingdom measure page load time, size, and requests. nimo checks your key pages weekly on Pro or daily on Business, shows which got slower, and suggests what to look at first.

### Does UptimeRobot work with ChatGPT or Claude?

Yes. UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Cronitor, and nimo all offer an official connection (an MCP server) that ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants can use to read your monitors.

### How do I know if a cron job or backup didn't run?

Have the job check in: add one line that visits a web address when the job finishes, and you get an alert if that visit doesn't arrive on time. Healthchecks.io, Cronitor, Better Stack, Uptime Kuma, and nimo all do this, and so does UptimeRobot on paid plans.

## Sources

- [UptimeRobot pricing](https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/)
- [UptimeRobot MCP server](https://uptimerobot.com/mcp/)
- [Better Stack pricing](https://betterstack.com/pricing)
- [Better Stack Uptime](https://betterstack.com/uptime)
- [Better Stack MCP server](https://betterstack.com/docs/getting-started/integrations/mcp/)
- [StatusCake pricing](https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/)
- [StatusCake integrations](https://www.statuscake.com/integrations/)
- [StatusCake page speed monitoring](https://www.statuscake.com/pagespeed-monitoring/)
- [StatusCake push (job) monitoring](https://www.statuscake.com/kb/knowledge-base/what-is-push-monitoring/)
- [Uptime Kuma on GitHub](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma)
- [Pingdom pricing](https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/)
- [Pingdom page speed](https://www.pingdom.com/product/page-speed/)
- [Healthchecks.io pricing](https://healthchecks.io/pricing/)
- [Cronitor pricing](https://cronitor.io/pricing)
- [Cronitor MCP server](https://cronitor.io/docs/mcp-server.md)
- [Cronitor integrations (Slack, Telegram)](https://cronitor.io/docs/integrations)
- [nimo plans](https://heynimo.com/plans)

## Related nimo pages

- [Website monitoring with nimo](https://heynimo.com/website-performance-monitoring)
- [Can ChatGPT check if my website is down?](https://heynimo.com/can-chatgpt-check-if-my-website-is-down)
- [Check-ins for scheduled jobs](https://heynimo.com/docs/check-ins)