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Comparison

Gatus vs UptimeRobot

No clear leader: Gatus (63.1) 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.

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Gatus63
UptimeRobot62
Score
Vioscale score
Gatus63 / 100medium · 52%
UptimeRobot62 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
Gatus✗
UptimeRobot✓
Model
Gatuscommercial
UptimeRobotfreemium
Price level
Gatuslow
UptimeRobotlow
Transparent
Gatus✓
UptimeRobot✓
Integrations
Count
Gatus24
UptimeRobot18
Security
Gdpr
Gatus–
UptimeRobot✓
Soc2
Gatus–
UptimeRobot✓
Reliability
Status page
Gatus✓
UptimeRobot✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api monitoring. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Multi region probes
Gatus-
UptimeRobot✓
Private location agent
Gatus-
UptimeRobot-
Status page hosting
Gatus-
UptimeRobot✓
Json schema assertions
Gatus-
UptimeRobot✓
Monitoring as code
Gatus-
UptimeRobot✓
Multistep API flows
Gatus-
UptimeRobot-
Heartbeat deadmans switch
Gatus-
UptimeRobot✓
Self hostable
Gatus-
UptimeRobot✗

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Gatus

A platform for tracking service health across websites, APIs, and infrastructure. It detects outages automatically, publishes real-time status pages, and alerts teams via multiple channels.

Independently observed

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.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Gatus

from $10/moSubscription7-day trial

From $10/month. Free 7-day trial.

  • Standard$10/month
    • HTTP, ICMP, DNS, TCP, UDP, TLS, SCTP, SSH, gRPC, WebSocket monitoring
    • Status code, response body/JSONPath, certificate expiration, domain expiration conditions
    • Response time and connection monitoring
    • Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, Google Chat, Gotify, Matrix, Mattermost, n8n, Ntfy, Opsgenie, Email, Gitea, GitHub, GitLab integrations
    • Static egress IP for firewall whitelisting
    • +3 more
  • Premium$20/month
    • All Standard features
    • Push-based monitoring
    • Incident announcements
    • Additional integrations: Messagebird, Pushover, AWS SES, ilert, Incident.io, PagerDuty, Twilio, SIGNL4
  • Business$50/month
    • All Premium features
    • Metrics dashboard
    • Single Sign-On (SSO)
    • Custom CSS
    • Custom integrations
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

UptimeRobot

SubscriptionFree tier

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
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Gatus✓
UptimeRobot✓
iOS
Gatus✗
UptimeRobot✓
Android
Gatus✗
UptimeRobot✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gatus✓
UptimeRobot✓
Self-hosted
Gatus✓
UptimeRobot✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (8)
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • Google Chat
  • Mattermost
  • ilert
  • PagerDuty

Gatus

24 total - 16 not shared
  • Gotify
  • Matrix
  • n8n
  • Ntfy
  • Opsgenie
  • Email
  • Gitea
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Messagebird
  • Pushover
  • AWS SES
  • Incident.io
  • Twilio
  • SIGNL4
  • Custom
Independently observed

UptimeRobot

18 total - 10 not shared
  • Splunk On-Call
  • Zenduty
  • PagerTree
  • Zapier
  • Pipedream
  • Pushbullet
  • Webhooks
  • Email to SMS
  • Voice call
  • Mobile push notification
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.