Updated 25 October 2026 · By the Upcertain team
The short version
- Pick UptimeRobot if you want a free plan, checks from several regions, SMS and voice calls, a mobile app, UDP or DNS monitoring, or 15-second checks.
- Pick Upcertain if you want 30-second checks and unlimited members on the same plan, configurable confirmation before alerts, status pages that group and explain outages, and an MCP server any member can connect.
Side by side
| Upcertain | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry option | Basic: 10 monitors, 60 s, 1 status page | Free: 50 monitors, 5-minute interval |
| 30-second checks | Team and Business | Team ($35 a month billed annually, $41 monthly), 100 monitors |
| Fastest check | 30 s | 15 s on Scale |
| Members who can log in | Unlimited on Team and Business, with roles | 3 on Team, 5 on Scale; more at $15 to $19 a month each |
| People who only get alerts | Notify-only contacts | Notify-only seats |
| Check locations | One region (Seoul) | Location-specific monitoring from 4 regions on paid plans |
| Monitor types | HTTP, keyword, ping, port, SSL, heartbeat | Adds UDP, DNS, domain expiry, API field checks |
| SMS and voice calls | No | Credits included on paid plans, more for sale |
| Status pages | 1 on Basic, unlimited on Team and Business; password, custom domain | 1 to unlimited by plan; password, own domain, white label |
| Prices | Early access, no billing yet | From $9 a month (Solo, billed annually) |
UptimeRobot's figures come from its pricing page, read on 25 October 2026. Check it for current prices.
Where UptimeRobot does more
It has a free plan with 50 monitors, which Upcertain does not. Paid plans add checks from several regions, SMS and voice-call alerts, a mobile app, UDP and DNS monitoring, domain-expiry warnings and 15-second intervals on its larger plans. If any of those is a requirement, UptimeRobot covers it and Upcertain does not.
Where Upcertain is different
- Seats. Team and Business include unlimited members with roles (owner, admin, editor, viewer), rather than a set number of login seats.
- Confirmation you control. Each monitor sets 0 to 5 re-checks and the time between them, so deploy-time failures can be ignored without slowing real alerts. See confirmation checks.
- Status pages that explain outages. Incidents that start together are grouped with each service's own downtime, and brief outages fold into one line a day. See status pages.
- MCP for every member. Claude, Cursor and other clients connect with each person's own sign-in, read-only by default. See the MCP server.
- Alert channels on every plan. Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat and signed webhooks are available on Basic too.
Moving from UptimeRobot
- List your UptimeRobot monitors: URLs or hosts, intervals and expected status codes.
- Import them with a CSV file or a list of URLs, up to 200 rows at a time (CSV import).
- Add alert channels and send a test to each.
- Rebuild the status page and move your subdomain's CNAME to
pages.upcertain.com(custom domains). - Run both for a week, then switch the old monitors off.
Questions
Does Upcertain have 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.
Can I keep notify-only contacts?
Yes. Add them as notify-only contacts under Team: they receive email alerts and have no login.
Sources
- UptimeRobot pricing (read 25 October 2026)