Budget Website Monitoring Comparison
07 Jun 2019
We have compared every available website monitoring service by price. A comparison of each service was made by:
1) the price of the cheapest Pro plan
2) the price to monitor 10 websites
3) the price to monitor 100 websites
You can skip straight to the results or read on to see how we ranked the sites...
Ranking by Cheapest Pro Plan
Sites were ranked according to their cheapest available Pro plan. We haven't included Free plans in the comparison, however here is a feature comparison of Free vs Pro plans which shows the kind of features to expect from a decent Pro plan.
US dollars were used for the comparison. For sites that only accept other currencies, prices were converted by the exchange rate on Google Finance on 5th June 2019.
Where a cheaper price was available by paying yearly, the annual cost divided by 12 was used for comparison.
Price, Features & Quality
This is a price comparison article.
However... it is worth remembering that price is not the only factor to take into account when choosing a website monitoring service (or any service).
Features and quality are also important. We haven't reviewed these here because feature reviews can be very subjective. Since we provide one of the website monitoring services in the comparison it is vital that the results are unbiased. Therefore we chose a measure that was hard to argue with - price.
That being said we did notice that the price of the service seems to be totally uncorrelated to the quality and features provided. Some of the cheapest services provide higher quality than other more expensive competitors. On the flip side, some of the cheap options are very poor indeed!
But we'll let you decide on quality yourselves... here are our website monitoring plans including the full list of features.
Below are the top 10 sites or skip straight to the full list...
Which Monitoring Sites Were Included?
Initially we viewed every website monitoring service available online - there were 158 at the time of writing!
We excluded very expensive services, sites that clearly had problems and any monitoring software that needed installation on your server. This reduced the number of sites considerably - 55 monitoring services made it through to the final results.
Cheap Monitoring Only
Sites with a cheapest plan costing $10/month or more were excluded since they can't be considered low-price.
Free plans were not included because we wanted to compare applications with Pro features. We'll be providing another comparison of free website monitoring very soon.
Also excluded were "Pro" plans that don't provide anything more than the average Free plan. For example, "Pro" plans with monitoring intervals of 5 minutes or alerts only available via email were not included. We've previously written a blog post that shows the kind of features you can expect from a Micro Pro monitoring service.
Sites which don't provide prices on their website or which require the customer to contact them to receive a price weren't included either.
Working Sites Only
We excluded a few sites that clearly have problems: if the site didn't load, the SSL certificate was invalid or Google warned us that it contained malware then we didn't include it.
Also, we didn't include sites that are in Beta testing.
External Monitoring Services Only
This comparison is for external monitoring services, so we didn't include software that requires installation on the customer's server.
Results
The results, with prices shown in US dollars per month and sorted by price, lowest first...
Monitoring Service
Cheapest Plan
10 Monitors
100 Monitors
Currencies
1) Downtime Monkey
Cheapest Plan: $0.48
10 Monitors: $1.51
100 Monitors: $6.08
Currencies: $, €, £ +120
2) Agent Slug
Cheapest Plan: $0.50
10 Monitors: $5.03
100 Monitors: $50.27
Currencies: €
3) Monitoring Me
Cheapest Plan: $0.54
10 Monitors: $5.40
100 Monitors: $54.00
Currencies: £
4) Updown
Cheapest Plan: $0.66
10 Monitors: $6.59
100 Monitors: $65.93
Currencies: €, Ƀ
5) Admin Labs
Cheapest Plan: $0.89
10 Monitors: $8.92
100 Monitors: $89.28
Currencies: $
6) Ping My Site
Cheapest Plan: $0.99
10 Monitors: $9.90
100 Monitors: $99.00
Currencies: $
7) Monitor2
Cheapest Plan: $1.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
8) Upmon
Cheapest Plan: $1.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
9) Uptime Pal
Cheapest Plan: $1.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
10) Cloud Radar
Cheapest Plan: $1.20
10 Monitors: $12.00
100 Monitors: $120.00
Currencies: $, €
11) Down Notifier
Cheapest Plan: $1.25
10 Monitors: $1.25
100 Monitors: $28.05
Currencies: $
12) MonTools
Cheapest Plan: $1.25
10 Monitors: $10.71
100 Monitors: $107.00
Currencies: $
13) Server Check
Cheapest Plan: $1.25
10 Monitors: $4.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
14) Vigil
Cheapest Plan: $1.99
10 Monitors: $19.90
100 Monitors: $199.00
Currencies: $
15) Statusoid
Cheapest Plan: $2.75
10 Monitors: $14.90
100 Monitors: $136.40
Currencies: $
16) Noty
Cheapest Plan: $3.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $10.00
Currencies: $
17) Do You Check
Cheapest Plan: $3.00
10 Monitors: $20.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $, €, £
18) Upski
Cheapest Plan: $3.99
10 Monitors: $3.99
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
19) Ping Monit
Cheapest Plan: $4.16
10 Monitors: $4.16
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
20) Uptime Robot
Cheapest Plan: $4.50
10 Monitors: $4.50
100 Monitors: $7.40
Currencies: $
21) Port Monitor
Cheapest Plan: $4.54
10 Monitors: $4.54
100 Monitors: $33.29
Currencies: $
22) API Checker
Cheapest Plan: $4.58
10 Monitors: $4.58
100 Monitors: $44.92
Currencies: $
23) Super Monitoring
Cheapest Plan: $4.59
10 Monitors: $24.28
100 Monitors: contact
Currencies: €
24) Pingoscope
Cheapest Plan: $4.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: $9.95
Currencies: $
25) Got Site Monitor
Cheapest Plan: $4.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
26) Binary Canary
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: $20.00
Currencies: $
27) R-U-ON
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $9.99
100 Monitors: $25.00
Currencies: $
28) OpsDash
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
29) WebGazer
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: contact
Currencies: $
30) Oh Dear
Cheapest Plan: $5.17
10 Monitors: $20.68
100 Monitors: $103.36
Currencies: €
31) AppBeat
Cheapest Plan: $5.62
10 Monitors: $5.62
100 Monitors: $56.29
Currencies: €
32) Uptime Checker
Cheapest Plan: $6.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $50.00
Currencies: $
33) Turbo Monitoring
Cheapest Plan: $6.69
10 Monitors: $66.38
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: €
34) Server Guard 24
Cheapest Plan: $6.90
10 Monitors: $23.90
100 Monitors: $129.90
Currencies: $
35) Observu
Cheapest Plan: $6.95
10 Monitors: $14.99
100 Monitors: $169.00
Currencies: $
36) WatchSumo
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $21.00
100 Monitors: contact
Currencies: $
37) Pingrely
Cheapest Plan: $7.08
10 Monitors: $7.08
100 Monitors: $47.92
Currencies: $
38) Pingdom
Cheapest Plan: $7.95
10 Monitors: $7.95
100 Monitors: $131.00
Currencies: $ + contact
39) Uptime Doctor
Cheapest Plan: $7.95
10 Monitors: $7.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
40) Uptime
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $64.00
Currencies: $
40) Pinometer
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $64.00
Currencies: $
42) Anturis
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $76.00
Currencies: $
43) NodePing
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $15.00
Currencies: $
44) Are My Sites Up
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $32.00
100 Monitors: $192.00
Currencies: $
45) WebMon
Cheapest Plan: $8.33
10 Monitors: $33.33
100 Monitors: $79.17
Currencies: $
46) Ping Stack
Cheapest Plan: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $49.00
Currencies: $
47) Uptimia
Cheapest Plan: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $79.00
Currencies: $
48) Site 24x7
Cheapest Plan: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $89.00
Currencies: $
49) Macro Wave
Cheapest Plan: $9.40
10 Monitors: $9.40
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: €
50) Host Tracker
Cheapest Plan: $9.92
10 Monitors: $9.92
100 Monitors: $74.92
Currencies: $
51) Alertra
Cheapest Plan: $9.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: $20.00
Currencies: $
52) Monitor Fox
Cheapest Plan: $9.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: $59.95
Currencies: $
53) Happy Apps
Cheapest Plan: $9.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: $199.95
Currencies: $
54) Let’s Monitor
Cheapest Plan: $9.99
10 Monitors: $9.99
100 Monitors: $9.99
Currencies: $
55) Candum
Cheapest Plan: $9.99
10 Monitors: $9.99
100 Monitors: $89.99
Currencies: $
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