Checkly vs UptimeRobot
No clear leader: Checkly (63.8) and UptimeRobot (61.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api monitoring. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs continuous uptime checks, API tests, and browser-based workflows from multiple global locations to detect outages and performance issues. Sends alerts through various channels and supports custom monitoring logic via TypeScript.
UptimeRobot
A service that continuously monitors websites, APIs, and servers at regular intervals and sends alerts when downtime or performance issues are detected. Includes branded status pages to inform users of incidents and maintenance.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Checkly
From $24/month billed annually. Free tier includes 10 monitors and 1k browser/10k API checks.
- HobbyFree
- Uptime monitoring (HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP, Heartbeat)
- 10 uptime monitors
- 1,000 browser/Playwright checks per month
- 10,000 API checks per month
- 6 global monitoring locations
- +2 more
- Starter$24/month billed annually
- 50 uptime monitors
- 1-minute check frequency
- 3,000 browser checks per month
- 25,000 API checks per month
- Automatic retry before alerting
- +3 more
- Team$64/month billed annually
- 75 uptime monitors
- 30-second check frequency
- 12,000 browser checks per month
- 100,000 API checks per month
- 22 global locations
- +7 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom monitor and check volumes
- 1-second check frequency
- 22 global locations with parallel and round-robin scheduling
- Private locations
- All alerting channels
- +1 more
UptimeRobot
Free plan with 5 monitors; paid plans from €/month with annual savings
- FreeFree
- Keyword monitoring
- Ping monitoring
- Basic status pages
- API monitoring
- UDP monitoring
- +3 more
- Solo-
- 60-second monitoring interval
- API monitoring with custom headers
- Multi-location checks
- UDP monitoring
- DNS monitoring
- +5 more
- Team-
- Team member access
- Granular permissions
- Status page customization
- Custom domain support
- Password-protected status pages
- +1 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Dedicated CSM
- Private Slack channel
- Shortest monitoring intervals
- Highest monitor counts
- All monitoring types
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Telegram
Checkly
- Incident.io
- Rootly
- OpsGenie
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Vercel
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Webhook
- Airflow
- Kubernetes
- MCP
UptimeRobot
- Microsoft Teams
- Mattermost
- Discord
- Google Chat
- Splunk On-Call
- Zenduty
- ilert
- PagerTree
- Zapier
- Pipedream
- Pushbullet
- Webhooks
- Email to SMS
- Voice call
- Mobile push notification
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.