Updated 25 October 2026 · By the Upcertain team
The short version
- Pick Pulsetic if you want region checks, SMS and call alerts, monitor screenshots, status page translation or a free plan.
- Pick Upcertain if you want tunable confirmation, unlimited members on Team, status pages that explain outages, and MCP.
Side by side
| Upcertain | Pulsetic | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry option | Basic: 10 monitors, 60 s (early access, no billing) | Free: 10 monitors, 5-minute checks, 3 regions |
| Paid plans | Team, Business | Solo $9, Team $19 (discounted from $39 when read), Organization $49 (from $69) a month |
| Fastest check | 30 s (Team, Business) | 60 s on Solo, 30 s on Team and Organization |
| Regions | One (Seoul) | 3 to 15 by plan |
| SMS and calls | No | None on Free; 30+ to 200+ included on paid plans |
Pulsetic's figures come from its pricing page, read on 25 October 2026.
What the table leaves out
The plans differ in what they count. Pulsetic's limits count monitors, heartbeats and domains together and add regions as plans grow; Upcertain's count active monitors of any type, with members unlimited from Team upwards. Map your own list of checks before comparing prices.
Where Pulsetic does more
Region checks, SMS and call alerts, screenshots of failing monitors, real user monitoring and status page translation.
Where Upcertain is different
- Confirmation checks you set per monitor, tuned to your deploys.
- Unlimited members with roles on Team and Business.
- Status pages with grouped incidents and per-service downtime.
- MCP for Claude, Cursor and other agents.
Questions to ask before you switch
- Do you need SMS or call alerts, or region checks?
- Who needs a login, and who only needs alerts? Notify-only contacts cover the second group.
- How long do your deploys or jobs normally take? That decides confirmation checks and heartbeat grace.
Moving from Pulsetic
- List what you monitor in Pulsetic: URLs, hosts or jobs, with their intervals.
- Import URLs and hosts with a CSV file, up to 200 rows at a time (CSV import); add heartbeat monitors one by one.
- Add alert channels and send a test to each.
- Point your status page subdomain at
pages.upcertain.comif you had one (custom domains). - Run both side by side for a week before switching the old checks off.
Questions
Can Upcertain take screenshots of failing pages?
No. Incidents record the failed request and the start of the response body instead.
Does Upcertain translate status pages?
No. Status pages are in English, with the names and announcements you write.
Is there a free plan?
Upcertain is in early access: billing is not enabled, accounts start on the Basic plan and plans are assigned from the account.
Sources
- Pulsetic pricing (read 25 October 2026)