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UptimeRobot

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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

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UptimeRobot at a glance

Vendor
UptimeRobot s. r. o.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
Free plan
Yes, per the vendor’s own page source, captured 1 Nov 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates UptimeRobot 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. UptimeRobot is an uptime monitoring and status page service from UptimeRobot s. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 1 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 2 Nov 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Agency Developer

Weighted verdict

Runs hosting and maintenance at a fifteen-person web agency with sixty client sites on WordPress, TYPO3 and Shopware. Has learned about an expired certificate from a client's angry phone call once and does not want a second time. Wants HTTP, keyword, SSL and domain expiry checks set up in bulk, client groups with their own status pages and monthly uptime reports, and a price per monitor that still works at two hundred monitors.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Agency Developer

Panel median The Agency Developer This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Agency Developer
Checks, locations & failure confirmation 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Alerting, escalation & on-call 3 of 5 3 of 5
Status pages & incident communication 3 of 5 3.5 of 5
API, monitoring as code & team administration 3 of 5 3 of 5
Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 3.5 of 5 4 of 5
Pricing transparency 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5

Checks, locations & failure confirmation

How this is scored

What can be monitored and how reliably a failure is detected: HTTP(S) with status code and keyword checks, TCP and port, ping, DNS records, SSL certificate and domain expiry, cron jobs and heartbeats, multi-step API checks with assertions, browser or transaction checks of a login or checkout, the shortest check interval, the number and regions of probe locations, the re-check from a second location before an alert, timeouts and response time thresholds, and private locations inside the customer's own network.

0 — Runs no checks of its own; a status page or alerting tool that only receives signals from other monitors.

3 — HTTP checks of a URL at a fixed interval with an up or down result; keyword, SSL, cron and the probe locations are basic or not described.

5 — HTTP(S), keyword, TCP or port, ping and SSL expiry checks, cron or heartbeat monitoring, an interval of one minute or less, several named probe locations, a failure confirmed from a second location before alerting, and response times recorded per check.

8 — Multi-step API checks with assertions on headers and body, browser or transaction checks of a user flow, DNS and domain expiry checks, sub-minute intervals, probe locations listed by city with the confirmation logic documented, private locations or agents for internal services, and maintenance windows that pause checks.

10 — Coverage and accuracy a reliability team runs on: every check type above with code-based checks (for example Playwright or scripted tests) in version control, location-specific thresholds, false-positive handling and probe health published, and the detection method documented so a result can be reproduced.

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The Agency Developer

Nine monitor types including keyword, ping, port, DNS and cron-job heartbeats, plus SSL and domain-expiry alerts with warning days I can set, is exactly the set I need for sixty client domains. Checks run as often as every fifteen seconds from regions I can choose per monitor, and a failed check is re-run from a different data center in the same region before anyone's phone rings — that alone would have saved me the angry certificate call. We found no public information on browser or transaction checks of a login or checkout flow, private probes inside a client's own network, or probe locations listed by city. 2 5 9 13 14

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Alerting, escalation & on-call

How this is scored

How the right person learns about a failure: alert channels (email, SMS, phone call, push app, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, webhooks), alerts to PagerDuty, Opsgenie or similar tools, escalation policies when an alert is not acknowledged, on-call schedules and rotations, acknowledge and resolve from the app, alert grouping and noise reduction, recovery notifications, maintenance windows that mute alerts, and whether SMS and calls are included or charged per message.

0 — No alerting at all; results can only be viewed in the dashboard.

3 — Email alerts and one or two chat integrations; escalation, phone calls and schedules are basic or not described.

5 — Email, SMS, a mobile push app, Slack, Microsoft Teams and webhooks, alerts forwarded to PagerDuty or Opsgenie, per-monitor alert contacts, recovery notifications, a delay or threshold before alerting, and maintenance windows that mute alerts.

8 — Phone call alerts, escalation policies with timeouts, on-call schedules and rotations with overrides, acknowledge and resolve from the app or chat, alert grouping, incident timelines with who did what, and the price of SMS and calls stated per country or included in the plan.

10 — On-call that replaces a separate incident tool: follow-the-sun schedules, escalation across teams, alert routing by service and severity, post-incident reviews generated from the timeline, and delivery of every alert channel monitored and reported.

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The Agency Developer

Email, SMS, phone call, mobile push and Slack with webhooks cover the channels an on-call duty rotation needs, contacts can be assigned to monitors individually or in bulk, and message pricing is published: one voice call equals two credits, with a country-by-country list for SMS. Thresholds, a three-of-five consecutive-request rule for slow responses and a configurable timeout dampen false alarms, and alerts forward to PagerDuty, PagerTree, iLert or Zenduty. We found no public information on native escalation policies, on-call schedules and rotations, or acknowledging and resolving from the app — the captured pages point to those integrations for the on-call side. 6 8 13 15 16 22

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Status pages & incident communication

How this is scored

How customers and colleagues are told: public status pages on a custom domain with SSL, components and component groups fed automatically by monitors or set by hand, incident updates and scheduled maintenance announcements, subscribers notified by email, SMS, RSS or webhook, uptime history shown per component, private or password-protected pages for internal teams or single customers, branding and custom CSS, several languages, page templates, and how the status page itself stays online when the main product is down.

0 — No status page of any kind.

3 — A public status page listing monitors with their current state; custom domain, incident updates and subscribers are basic or not described.

5 — Public status pages on a custom domain, components linked to monitors, incident updates and scheduled maintenance, email subscribers, uptime history per component, the vendor's branding removable, and a password-protected or private page option.

8 — Component groups, SMS, RSS and webhook subscribers with per-component subscriptions, private pages with single sign-on or IP restriction, several languages, incident templates, embeddable status widgets, audience-specific pages for single customers, and the status page hosting kept separate from the main service and documented.

10 — Incident communication end to end: incidents drafted from monitor events and approved by a person, updates published to the page, subscribers, chat and social channels at once, a full incident archive with post-mortems, status page uptime published, and accessibility of the page stated.

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The Agency Developer

Each client can get its own page: from three pages on Solo up to a hundred white-label pages on Team and unlimited on Scale, hosted on a custom subdomain with a certificate issued automatically via Let's Encrypt. Pages carry components fed by monitors, incident and maintenance announcements on a timeline, email subscribers, password protection, eleven languages and embeddable status badges — the agency model is well served. We found no public information on SMS, RSS or webhook subscribers, per-component subscriptions, or single sign-on for private audience pages. 4 8 17 18

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API, monitoring as code & team administration

How this is scored

How the tool fits a team and a deployment pipeline: a documented REST API to create and read monitors, status pages and incidents, a Terraform provider, CLI or monitoring-as-code workflow, checks run from CI/CD before a deploy, bulk import of monitors, integrations with ticketing and chat tools, team members with roles, single sign-on (SAML) and SCIM, audit logs, several teams or client accounts in one organisation, white-label or client reporting for agencies, and two-factor authentication.

0 — No API, no team accounts; one login per account and monitors are set up only by hand.

3 — A web dashboard with a few team members; the API, roles and multi-client set-up are basic or not described.

5 — A documented REST API covering monitors and status pages, webhooks, team members with roles, two-factor authentication, bulk import or a CSV upload of monitors, and several projects, teams or client groups in one account.

8 — A Terraform provider or monitoring-as-code CLI with checks kept in version control, checks triggered from CI/CD, single sign-on (SAML), SCIM provisioning, audit logs, sub-accounts for clients with their own logins, and white-label client reports.

10 — Administration that scales across many teams and clients: every setting reachable by API and code with parity stated, granular roles per resource, SSO enforced with SCIM, audit logs exportable to a SIEM, and agency or reseller accounts with separate billing.

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The Agency Developer

A v3 REST API on every plan including Free covers monitors, alert contacts, maintenance windows and public status pages, with bulk operations, published rate limits, a CLI and even an MCP interface, and Ansible or Terraform can onboard hundreds of monitors as code — that is how I would set up two hundred monitors once. Teammates get read, write, notify-only and admin roles, two-factor is available and required for privileged admins, and monitors group by client so each client can have its own SLA policy. We found no public information on SAML single sign-on, SCIM, audit logs, or per-client sub-accounts with their own logins. 7 8 11 13 19 20

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Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability

How this is scored

What the record is worth and whether the monitor itself can be trusted: uptime and SLA reports per monitor and period, response time charts and percentiles, scheduled reports by email, client-facing reports, how long check results and incident history are kept, export of results by CSV or API, the vendor's own public status page and incident history, its SLA, the probe IP addresses and user agent published for allow-listing, and an open-source or self-hosted edition.

0 — No history of any kind; only the current state is shown.

3 — An uptime percentage and a response time chart per monitor; retention, export and the vendor's own status are basic or not described.

5 — Uptime and response time reports per monitor and period, SLA reports, scheduled email reports, the retention period of check results stated, CSV or API export, the probe IPs published, and the vendor's own public status page.

8 — Response time percentiles and breakdowns (DNS, connect, TLS, first byte), client-ready branded reports, retention of a year or more stated per plan, a raw export of check results, the vendor's incident history and post-mortems public, and an SLA with credits published.

10 — A record that holds up in an audit: SLA calculations with their method stated, incident records suitable for ISO 27001, NIS2 or DORA evidence, full history exportable in an open format, a self-hosted or open-source edition with feature parity stated, and the vendor's own availability over several years published.

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The Agency Developer

The monthly uptime report is what I would bill clients against: overall uptime, incident counts, mean time between failures, month-over-month comparison, a response-time summary with peaks above 1,000 ms, and every monitor with daily status bars — plus per-client SLA policies that email a verdict at month or quarter end with the calculation method spelled out. The captured pages give different figures for how far back history reaches, so I checked both the plan table and the reporting article before relying on it. We found no public information on response-time percentiles, probe IP addresses for allow-listing, the vendor's own status page and incident history, or a published SLA with credits. 1 8 21

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where account data, alert contacts (names and phone numbers of the people on call), status page subscribers and check results are stored and processed, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, SMS and phone gateways, email delivery, support and payment tools). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline. Probe locations outside Europe are part of what the product does and are not counted against it; where the data is stored and who processes it is. A self-hosted or open-source edition the customer runs on its own European servers counts as the customer's chain, whatever the vendor's seat.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU hosting available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (SMS and call gateways, email, support, payment) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated — or a self-hosted edition documented that keeps every record on the customer's own servers.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, or a self-hosted open-source edition with no call home, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Agency Developer

The contract sits with UptimeRobot s. r. o. in Bratislava under Slovak law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Bratislava courts, with a published data processing agreement carrying the standard contractual clauses, and processing is stated as primarily in the European Union on named infrastructure with Hetzner hosting the monitoring stack and status pages. The full sub-processor list is public — Plivo for SMS and voice, Sendgrid and Amazon SES for mail, Stripe and others for payment — with thirty days' notice of any change and deletion within ninety days of termination. The vendor's own attestation is SOC 2 Type I while the ISO 27001 certificates belong to its infrastructure providers, so I stay at this level rather than higher. 9 10 11 12

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per tier by number of monitors, check interval and status pages, team seats and on-call responders, what SMS and phone alerts cost, which features (multi-step or browser checks, SSO, longer retention, private locations, white-label) cost extra, the free tier and its limits, overage handling, minimum term and VAT.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but how cost scales with monitors, intervals, seats or alerts is unclear.

5 — Tiers are public with their monitor count, interval and main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (SMS or call alerts, extra seats, extra status pages, SSO, longer retention) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its scaling rule (monitors, interval, seats, responders, status pages), SMS and call costs stated, add-ons priced, overage handling stated, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of monitors, interval, team size and alert volume, with every add-on, overage and support fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Agency Developer

I can plan the money from public pages: the free tier's fifty monitors at five-minute intervals are stated, Scale lists 200 or 500 monitors and "Starts at €660 /y" with a fifteen-second interval, and SMS and voice alerts are priced in credit packs from $3 for 10 credits with a per-country list for SMS. Login seats add for $15/19 / mo and the included credit volume per plan is published. The Team plan's monitor count is not shown on the captured pricing page, extra monitors are sold as an upgrade without a captured unit price, and we found no public information on VAT treatment. 8 9 16 17

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Hosting location Not determined — uncited Report an error
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Questions about UptimeRobot

Is UptimeRobot European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies UptimeRobot as EU-Made.

Where does UptimeRobot store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

Does UptimeRobot have a free plan?

Yes. UptimeRobot has a free plan, per the vendor’s page captured 1 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to UptimeRobot?

As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates Hyperping (3.5/5), Checkly (3.5/5) and openstatus (3.5/5) highest among the other 14 Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Hyperping (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: UptimeRobot alternatives.

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Sources (23)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page (SSL monitoring) uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features page (cron job monitoring) uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Features page (status pages) uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Features page (alerting) uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Integrations page uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 API documentation uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Pricing page uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Terms of service (names the operating company) uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Privacy policy uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Data processing agreement (dpa) uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Security / trust page uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Checks, locations & failure confirmation — found from sitemap uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Checks, locations & failure confirmation — found from sitemap uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Alerting, escalation & on-call — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Alerting, escalation & on-call — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Status pages & incident communication — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  18. 18 Status pages & incident communication — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  19. 19 API, monitoring as code & team administration — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  20. 20 API, monitoring as code & team administration — found from sitemap uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  21. 21 Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  22. 22 Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability — found from sitemap help.uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →
  23. 23 Self-hosting / on-premises installation docs — found from the homepage uptimerobot.com Checked 1 Nov 2026 Details →