28 Jul 2024
**Update 5th September 2024**
A further server migration was completed today. Although the previous server worked fine their were some performance aspects that we were not happy with so it was decided that another change was best.
The transition took place today at around 10.45 UTC with approximately 10 minutes of downtime. There was also a short period when emails did not sent. We are now running on the new server and the IP address of remains the same as before.
**Update 1st August 2024**
The upgrade to the new main server completed successfully, beginning on Monday morning a little later than expected at around 10am UTC.
The transition was smooth with just a few minutes of downtime and we are now running on the new server. Note the IP address of the new server remains the same as before.
A big thank you to everyone who has signed-up recently and especially to our Pro users who keep the lights on - we really appreciate it!
An upgrade of Downtime Monkey's main server is scheduled to take place on Monday 29th July at approximately 9am UTC. The old server has served us well, but has now become a little long in the tooth, so we will be migrating to a new server.
There will be a short period (of approximately 15 minutes) when the website may be offline while the migration takes place. We hate downtime but in this situation it's unavoidable.
The good news is that all Downtime Monkey customers will enjoy the benefits of the updated server in the years to come.
Thanks again and looking forward to updating this post from the shiny new server!
03 Jun 2024
**Update 6th June 2024** Issue resolved with viewing stats
Yesterday we fixed the issue where some users couldn't view their monitoring stats. Stats can now be seen by all users.
For some monitors, response times between late on 4th June and early on 6th June are missing from the stats but other than this all stats can be viewed as normal.
**Update 4th June 2024** Database upgrade maintenance was completed today.
The upgrade to the database on our main server took place today as scheduled and was completed with less than 15 minutes downtime.
We are aware of one post-update issue where some users are unable to view the stats of their monitors - note that all monitoring and alerting is functioning correctly. We are working on a fix and will keep you informed of progress here.
The Downtime Monkey main server is scheduled to upgrade its database software to the latest version on 4th June 2024 at 9am UTC.
The update is necessary for keeping the Downtime Monkey database secure, reliable and fast over the coming years. We will update this post when the upgrade has been concluded.
13 Feb 2022
**UPDATE **
The comparison for 2022 has been completed. You can skip straight to the results for 2022, view the results for 2021, 2020 & 2019, or read on to see how we ranked the sites...
We 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
We then calculated the average price per monitor which we used for the rankings.
Ranking by Average Price Per Monitor
In the past (2021 and before) sites were ranked according to their cheapest available Pro plan. This worked fine but we noticed that it favoured services that have a fixed price per monitor. These are usually cheap if you want to monitor a single site but quickly become expensive as the number of monitors increases.
This year we have calculated the average price per monitor by simply dividing each price by number of monitors and then taking the average. This gives a more balanced ranking which factors in both bigger and smaller plans.
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 08 Feb 2022.
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 202 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 - 41 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.
Also excluded were "Pro" plans that don't provide anything more than the average Free plan. For example, "Pro" plans with monitoring intervals of greater than 1 minute, with alerts only available via email or with monitoring from only one location were not included.
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.
2022 Results
Again, some interesting trends in the website monitoring space were illuminated by this year's results...
Even More Monitoring Services: the total number of website monitoring services has continued to increase despite several services shutting up shop: 158 in 2019, 170 in 2020, 185 in 2021 and 202 in 2022.
But Fewer Quality Services: the total number of services that made the final results decreased from 55 in 2019 to 41 in 2020, recovered slightly to 46 in 2021 and returned to the low point of 41 in 2022. The main reason for this trend is an increased number of new services that offer paid plans with only free plan features.
Prices Largely Unchanged: following large price increases in 2020 and moderate increases in 2021 it was interesting to see that prices remain largely unchanged across the industry this year.
Monitoring Service
Avg Cost/Mon
1 Monitor
10 Monitors
100 Monitors
Cur.
1) Downtime Monkey
Average Cost/Mon: $0.33
1 Monitor: $0.69
10 Monitors: $2.16
100 Monitors: $8.68
Currencies: $€+120
2) Updown
Average Cost/Mon: $0.67
1 Monitor: $0.67
10 Monitors: $6.68
100 Monitors: $66.80
Currencies: €₿
3) Observery
Average Cost/Mon: $0.73
1 Monitor: $1.95
10 Monitors: $1.95
100 Monitors: $4.95
Currencies: $
4) Monitor2
Average Cost/Mon: $0.75
1 Monitor: $1.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
5) Agent Slug
Average Cost/Mon: $0.80
1 Monitor: $1.14
10 Monitors: $4.56
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
6) Copper Egg
Average Cost/Mon: $0.80
1 Monitor: $0.80
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $80.00
Currencies: $
7) Admin Labs
Average Cost/Mon: $0.89
1 Monitor: $0.89
10 Monitors: $8.93
100 Monitors: $89.28
Currencies: $
8) Binary Canary
Average Cost/Mon: $0.90
1 Monitor: $2.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: $20.00
Currencies: $
9) Custom Uptime
Average Cost/Mon: $1.00
1 Monitor: $1.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
10) Uptime Pal
Average Cost/Mon: $1.00
1 Monitor: $1.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: 100.00
Currencies: $
11) MonTools
Average Cost/Mon: $1.07
1 Monitor: $1.07
10 Monitors: $10.71
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
12) Cloudsome
Average Cost/Mon: $1.58
1 Monitor: $4.17
10 Monitors: $4.17
100 Monitors: $16.67
Currencies: $
13) Cloud Radar
Average Cost/Mon: $1.70
1 Monitor: $1.70
10 Monitors: $17.00
100 Monitors: $170.00
Currencies: $€
14) Pingerman
Average Cost/Mon: $1.80
1 Monitor: $4.58
10 Monitors: $4.58
100 Monitors: $37.50
Currencies: $
15) API Checker
Average Cost/Mon: $1.84
1 Monitor: $4.58
10 Monitors: $4.58
100 Monitors: $49.00
Currencies: $
16) AppBeat
Average Cost/Mon: $2.11
1 Monitor: $5.70
10 Monitors: $5.70
100 Monitors: $5.70
Currencies: €
17) Cloud Probes
Average Cost/Mon: $2.16
1 Monitor: $3.60
10 Monitors: $7.20
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
18) Ping Monit
Average Cost/Mon: $2.29
1 Monitor: $4.16
10 Monitors: $4.16
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
19) Pulse Ping
Average Cost/Mon: $2.30
1 Monitor: $5.99
10 Monitors: $5.99
100 Monitors: $29.99
Currencies: $
20) Uptime Mate
Average Cost/Mon: $2.49
1 Monitor: $5.70
10 Monitors: $10.26
100 Monitors: $74.10
Currencies: €
21) Up Status
Average Cost/Mon: $2.63
1 Monitor: $5.00
10 Monitors: $19.00
100 Monitors: $99.00
Currencies: $
22) Uptime Robot
Average Cost/Mon: $2.64
1 Monitor: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: $21.00
Currencies: $
23) Uptime Checker
Average Cost/Mon: $2.67
1 Monitor: $6.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $50.00
Currencies: $
24) Hitflow
Average Cost/Mon: $2.69
1 Monitor: $6.82
10 Monitors: $6.82
100 Monitors: $56.99
Currencies: €
25) Dev Monitor
Average Cost/Mon: $2.75
1 Monitor: $5.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
26) Pingrely
Average Cost/Mon: $2.76
1 Monitor: $7.08
10 Monitors: $7.08
100 Monitors: $47.92
Currencies: $
27) Uptime 360
Average Cost/Mon: $3.03
1 Monitor: $5.00
10 Monitors: $29.00
100 Monitors: $119.00
Currencies: $
28) Pingniner
Average Cost/Mon: $3.32
1 Monitor: $5.80
10 Monitors: $8.30
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
29) Observu
Average Cost/Mon: $3.38
1 Monitor: $6.95
10 Monitors: $14.99
100 Monitors: $169.00
Currencies: $
30) Uptimia
Average Cost/Mon: $3.56
1 Monitor: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $79
Currencies: $
31) Monitive
Average Cost/Mon: $3.59
1 Monitor: $7.00
10 Monitors: $30.60
100 Monitors: $72.00
Currencies: $
32) Site 24x7
Average Cost/Mon: $3.60
1 Monitor: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $89.00
Currencies: $€
33) Super Monitoring
Average Cost/Mon: $3.70
1 Monitor: $4.91
10 Monitors: $24.91
100 Monitors: contact
Currencies: $€
34) Cronitor
Average Cost/Mon: $3.85
1 Monitor: $7.00
10 Monitors: $25.00
100 Monitors: $205.00
Currencies: $
35) YupTimer
Average Cost/Mon: $3.85
1 Monitor: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
36) Pinghut
Average Cost/Mon: $3.99
1 Monitor: $9.00
10 Monitors: $27.00
100 Monitors: $27.00
Currencies: $
37) Net Ping
Average Cost/Mon: $4.04
1 Monitor: $8.00
10 Monitors: $35.00
100 Monitors: $62.00
Currencies: $
38) WebPing
Average Cost/Mon: $4.11
1 Monitor: $8.06
10 Monitors: $19.91
100 Monitors: $226.56
Currencies: PLN
39) Uptime Doctor
Average Cost/Mon: $4.37
1 Monitor: $7.95
10 Monitors: $7.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
40) Are My Sites Up
Average Cost/Mon: $4.37
1 Monitor: $8.00
10 Monitors: $32.00
100 Monitors: $192.00
Currencies: $
41) Alertra
Average Cost/Mon: $5.47
1 Monitor: $9.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
2021 Results
For sites that only accept currencies other than US dollars, prices were converted by the exchange rate on Google Finance on 23rd April 2021.
Monitoring Service
Cheapest Plan
10 Monitors
100 Monitors
Currencies
1) Downtime Monkey
Cheapest Plan: $0.69
10 Monitors: $2.16
100 Monitors: $8.68
Currencies: $, €, £ +120
2) Updown
Cheapest Plan: $0.71
10 Monitors: $7.09
100 Monitors: $70.91
Currencies: €
3) Copper Egg
Cheapest Plan: $0.80
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $80.00
Currencies: $
4) Admin Labs
Cheapest Plan: $0.89
10 Monitors: $8.93
100 Monitors: $89.28
Currencies: $
5) Ping My Site
Cheapest Plan: $0.99
10 Monitors: $9.90
100 Monitors: $99.00
Currencies: $
6) Monitor2
Cheapest Plan: $1.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
7) Uptime Pal
Cheapest Plan: $1.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
8) Server Check In
Cheapest Plan: $1.25
10 Monitors: $4.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
9) Mon Tools
Cheapest Plan: $1.50
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
10) Cloud Radar
Cheapest Plan: $1.70
10 Monitors: $17.00
100 Monitors: $170.00
Currencies: $, €
11) Observery
Cheapest Plan: $1.95
10 Monitors: $1.95
100 Monitors: $4.95
Currencies: $
12) Vigil
Cheapest Plan: $1.99
10 Monitors: $19.99
100 Monitors: $199.00
Currencies: $
13) Binary Canary
Cheapest Plan: $2.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: $20.00
Currencies: $
14) Agent Slug
Cheapest Plan: $2.02
10 Monitors: $2.02
100 Monitors: $5.04
Currencies: €
15) Pingr
Cheapest Plan: $2.04
10 Monitors: $11.36
100 Monitors: $104.68
Currencies: $
16) Monitoring Me
Cheapest Plan: $2.36
10 Monitors: $12.89
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: £
17) Statusoid
Cheapest Plan: $3.49
10 Monitors: $34.90
100 Monitors: $349.00
Currencies: $
18) Cloud Probes
Cheapest Plan: $3.60
10 Monitors: $7.20
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
19) Ping Ping
Cheapest Plan: $4.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $60.00
Currencies: $
20) Ping Monit
Cheapest Plan: $4.16
10 Monitors: $4.16
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
21) Super Monitoring
Cheapest Plan: $4.91
10 Monitors: $24.91
100 Monitors: contact
Currencies: €
22) API Checker
Cheapest Plan: $4.99
10 Monitors: $4.99
100 Monitors: $44.91
Currencies: $
23) Dev Monitor
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
24) Monitive
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $9.50
100 Monitors: $60.00
Currencies: $
25) Ops Dash
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
26) Up Status
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
27) Uptime 360
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
28) Pulse Ping
Cheapest Plan: $5.99
10 Monitors: $5.99
100 Monitors: $29.99
Currencies: $
29) Uptime Checker
Cheapest Plan: $6.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $50.00
Currencies: $
30) App Beat
Cheapest Plan: $6.04
10 Monitors: $6.04
100 Monitors: $60.49
Currencies: €
31) Uptime Mate
Cheapest Plan: $6.05
10 Monitors: $10.89
100 Monitors: $78.65
Currencies: €
32) Server Guard 24
Cheapest Plan: $6.90
10 Monitors: $23.90
100 Monitors: $129.90
Currencies: $
33) Pingniner
Cheapest Plan: $6.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
34) Observu
Cheapest Plan: $6.95
10 Monitors: $14.99
100 Monitors: $169.00
Currencies: $
35) Site 24x7
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: $71.00
Currencies: $
36) Uptime Robot
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: $21.00
Currencies: $
37) Yup Timer
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
38) Pingrely
Cheapest Plan: $7.08
10 Monitors: $7.08
100 Monitors: $47.92
Currencies: $
39) Hitflow
Cheapest Plan: $7.24
10 Monitors: $7.24
100 Monitors: $60.48
Currencies: €
40) Uptime Doctor
Cheapest Plan: $7.95
10 Monitors: $7.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
41) Are My Sites Up
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $32.00
100 Monitors: $192.00
Currencies: $
42) NodePing
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $15.00
Currencies: $
43) Pinometer
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $64.00
Currencies: $
44) Uptimia
Cheapest Plan: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $79.00
Currencies: $
45) Status Rocket
Cheapest Plan: $9.00
10 Monitors: $29.00
100 Monitors: $149.00
Currencies: $
46) Alertra
Cheapest Plan: $9.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
2020 Results
For sites that only accept currencies other than US dollars, prices were converted by the exchange rate on Google Finance on 3rd March 2020.
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: $0.49
10 Monitors: $4.89
100 Monitors: $48.92
Currencies: €
3) Updown
Cheapest Plan: $0.66
10 Monitors: $6.52
100 Monitors: $65.15
Currencies: €, Ƀ
4) Copper Egg
Cheapest Plan: $0.80
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $80.00
Currencies: $
5) Admin Labs
Cheapest Plan: $0.89
10 Monitors: $8.93
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) Uptime Pal
Cheapest Plan: $1.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
9) Cloud Radar
Cheapest Plan: $1.20
10 Monitors: $12.00
100 Monitors: $120.00
Currencies: $, €
10) Mon Tools
Cheapest Plan: $1.50
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
11) Observery
Cheapest Plan: $1.95
10 Monitors: $1.95
100 Monitors: $4.95
Currencies: $
12) Vigil
Cheapest Plan: $1.99
10 Monitors: $19.99
100 Monitors: $199.00
Currencies: $
13) Binary Canary
Cheapest Plan: $2.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: $20.00
Currencies: $
14) Monitoring Me
Cheapest Plan: $2.36
10 Monitors: $5.40
100 Monitors: $11.85
Currencies: £
15) Statusoid
Cheapest Plan: $3.49
10 Monitors: $34.90
100 Monitors: $349.00
Currencies: $
16) Cloud Probes
Cheapest Plan: $3.60
10 Monitors: $7.20
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
17) Ping Monit
Cheapest Plan: $4.16
10 Monitors: $4.16
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
18) Uptime Robot
Cheapest Plan: $4.50
10 Monitors: $4.50
100 Monitors: $7.40
Currencies: $
19) Super Monitoring
Cheapest Plan: $4.91
10 Monitors: $24.91
100 Monitors: contact
Currencies: €
20) Pingoscope
Cheapest Plan: $4.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: $9.95
Currencies: $
21) Up Ninja
Cheapest Plan: $4.99
10 Monitors: $4.99
100 Monitors: $24.99
Currencies: $
22) API Checker
Cheapest Plan: $4.99
10 Monitors: $4.99
100 Monitors: $49.99
Currencies: $
23) Online Or Not
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $5.00
100 Monitors: $99.00
Currencies: $
24) Ops Dash
Cheapest Plan: $5.00
10 Monitors: $10.00
100 Monitors: $100.00
Currencies: $
25) Oh Dear
Cheapest Plan: $5.56
10 Monitors: $22.24
100 Monitors: $111.18
Currencies: €
26) Uptime Checker
Cheapest Plan: $6.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $50.00
Currencies: $
27) Hitflow
Cheapest Plan: $6.66
10 Monitors: $6.66
100 Monitors: $55.58
Currencies: €
28) Server Guard 24
Cheapest Plan: $6.90
10 Monitors: $23.90
100 Monitors: $129.90
Currencies: $
29) Pingniner
Cheapest Plan: $6.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
30) Observu
Cheapest Plan: $6.95
10 Monitors: $14.99
100 Monitors: $169.00
Currencies: $
31) Do You Check
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $20.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $, €, £
32) Yup Timer
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
33) Site 24x7
Cheapest Plan: $7.00
10 Monitors: $7.00
100 Monitors: $71.00
Currencies: $
34) Pingrely
Cheapest Plan: $7.08
10 Monitors: $7.08
100 Monitors: $47.92
Currencies: $
35) Uptime Doctor
Cheapest Plan: $7.95
10 Monitors: $7.95
100 Monitors: n/a
Currencies: $
36) Anturis
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $76.00
Currencies: $
37) Are My Sites Up
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $32.00
100 Monitors: $192.00
Currencies: $
38) NodePing
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $15.00
100 Monitors: $15.00
Currencies: $
39) Pinometer
Cheapest Plan: $8.00
10 Monitors: $8.00
100 Monitors: $64.00
Currencies: $
40) Uptimia
Cheapest Plan: $9.00
10 Monitors: $9.00
100 Monitors: $79.00
Currencies: $
41) Alertra
Cheapest Plan: $9.95
10 Monitors: $9.95
100 Monitors: $20.00
Currencies: $
2019 Results
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.
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: $
15 Jun 2021
**Update 17th June 2021** Scheduled maintenance was completed successfully today.
The work to upgrade the local network of our main server went well and was compleled faster than expected, in under 10 minutes. However, one issue occurred during the maintenance and some false positive downtime alerts were sent out to customers during this time (6am to 6.08am UTC) - these can safely be ignored.
Our main server's local network is scheduled for maintenance on 17th June 2021 at 6am UTC.
Our Upstream Provider will replace a top of rack switch with newer generation hardware capable of 40G networking. This is expected to take 15-20 minutes.
Although our server will remain running during this time the network will be down. Therefore our services will be paused for the duration of the maintenance and will resume immediately after maintenance is completed.
We hate downtime as much as anyone and we've had 100% uptime for over a year now so really dislike our perfect record being reduced.
However, we realise that this maintenance is essential and look forward to the performance benefits it will bring. Thanks for your patience with this.
10 Jun 2021
We've updated the phone number that sends text alerts to US customers to a new 10DLC number. You don't need to do anything, but if you're in the US you'll notice your SMS alerts come from a new number.
What Is 10DLC?
10DLC stands for '10 digit long code'. In layman's terms it's a phone number that is ten figures long.
These numbers are the new standard for 'application to person' text messages, where a message is automatically sent to a person by a computer.
Why The Change?
The 10DLC standard has been created to combat text message spam while allowing legitimate automated text messages to be received. It's not a regulation as such, in that it's not enforced by government. It's a standard set by US phone carriers, such as AT&T, T-Mobile etc.
Either way, it was essential for Downtime Monkey to get onboard to make sure our US text alerts continue to be received round the clock. So we've changed our US number to a 10 digit US toll free number - it's already in place and working well.
A big thanks to all our Pro Plan customers for keeping Downtime Monkey running, you're awesome!
02 Feb 2021
Downtime Monkey now logs more than 4 million website responses each day. We analysed these to see how fast websites respond in practice.
View the full results below or skip to the sound bites.
1 Million Response Times Analysed
We collected 1 million response times from real websites. Half a million from Pro plans and half a million from Free plans.
We then split these into groups: 0 to 1 second, 1 to 2 seconds, 2 to 3 seconds etc. and then counted the number in each group. For responses slower than 17 seconds a site is considered down.
Here are the results:
Fastest Websites Analysed
The majority of sites responded within a second, so we took another sample and broke the fastest sites into groups of a quarter of a second.
Free vs Pro
The results from Pro and Free monitors show a similar pattern:
The Sound Bites
The fastest 10% of websites respond in under 0.2 seconds.
The average response time is 1.28 seconds.
Over 90% of sites respond within 3 seconds.
Nearly 1% of websites are down at any single moment.
If you would like to see how fast your website responds sign-up here or check out our features.
22 Oct 2020
Downtime Monkey has now been monitoring websites for just over 3 years. Since 2017, we have offered a 30% 'early-bird' discount on Pro subscriptions. But this is coming to an end very soon...
30% Discount Locked-in For 3 Years
Don't fret though, you can still access the discount now... but the offer will end in November.
Note that the discount is locked-in for 36 months from the date of purchase so if you buy a Pro Plan today you'll still receive the discount in October 2023.
Existing Pro Customers
If you're an existing Pro customer don't worry, you won't lose your discount because it's locked in for 36 months from your original purchase.
However, if you're intending to upgrade it may be worth doing this now to keep your 'early-bird' discount.
A big thank you to all the Pro users who have kept the service going since September 2017!
17 Aug 2020
The stats overview page that we launched in June was very well received. We have followed up on this and developed a similar idea for downtime logs. This went live on Friday and shows downtime records for all your monitors in one place.
Filter Logs
By default, logs of all downtimes in the last 24 hours are shown. This means that you'll immediately see downtimes from any recent outages and get the important details at a glance.
It's possible to show logs for any site individually. This is really handy if you monitor a lot of websites and want to focus in on one particular site.
You can also change the timespan to see logs up to 2 years old: options are 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year and 2 years. You can view logs for all your monitors together for up to 30 days - for more than this select an individual site.
Download Logs
As well as viewing logs you can export logs to a spreadsheet (CSV file) in just one click. This is really useful if you want to send logs to a customer, provide evidence of downtimes to a hosting provider or include logs in a company report.
View Timestamps in your Timezone
In every log, timestamps of the start and end of the downtime are shown. These are displayed in your preferred timezone and exactly match the timestamp shown in the corresponding downtime alerts.
This makes it incredibly easy to cross-reference a log with a particular alert as shown in this recent post on timestamps on downtime alerts.
See the Reason For Every Downtime
The HTTP code is shown in each log and you can hover on this to see the cause of the downtime in plain English. This can help you troubleshoot problems and get your website back online quickly.
A big thank you to everyone using Downtime Monkey and especially to our Pro users - it wouldn't be possible without you!
09 Jul 2020
We've made a useful improvement to Downtime Monkey alerts. Each downtime alert now includes a timestamp that shows the time that the website went down and each uptime alert includes a timestamp that shows the time that the website came back up.
This turned out to be more work than expected, largely because we thought we'd knock it out in under an hour :)
Although it wasn't totally straightforward to develop, the end-result is incredibly simple to use...
Consistent Timestamps On All Alerts
Each timestamp is consistent across the whole monitoring system. The times shown in email, Slack and SMS alerts are identical to each other and show the time the website was first noted as down.
Note that this is not necessarily the same as the time when the alerts are sent, for example for monitors that are customised to delay alerts until the site remains down for x minutes.
The main benefit is that you'll see exactly when the website was down, at a glance. Also, if you want to see more detail it's easy to find the downtime log...
Timestamps Match Downtime Logs
The time shown in each alert message is also displayed in your preferred timezone and therefore matches exactly the timestamp in your downtime logs.
This makes it very easy to find the corresponding downtime log...
If you'd like to receive timestamps with your downtime alerts and have access to comprehensive downtime logs, check out our Pro Plans.
All Posts
Website Monitoring Prices Compared
Scheduled Maintenance 17th June 2021
US Text Alerts Updated For 10DLC
A Quick Study Of Response Time
'Early-bird' Discount Ends November
Downtime Logs... All In One Place
The Effects Of COVID-19 Lockdowns
Lockdown Bugfixes & Midnight Coding
Monitoring URLs With Query Strings
New Pro Plans For EU Individuals
Free & Pro Monitoring Compared
Downtime Alerts: An Ideal Custom Setup
Server Upgrade & IP Address Change
Website Monitoring: Cheap vs Free
Website Content (Keyword) Monitoring
Cheap Website Monitoring Pro Plans
Server Upgrade Scheduled Completed
Whitelist Email Addresses in cPanel
Website Downtime Alerts To Slack
Whitelist Email Addresses: Thunderbird
Whitelist Email Addresses in Yahoo Mail
How we improved accessibility by 42%
Whitelist Email Addresses in Outlook
Whitelist Email Addresses In Gmail
Why Whitelist An Email Address?
When is a website considered down
Bulk import, edit and delete monitors
Privacy, democracy & bureaucracy
How Much Downtime is Acceptable?
Server Upgrade Scheduled Completed
Free Plan Upgraded to 60 Monitors
New Feature: Rate Limit SMS Alerts
How We Boosted Page Speed By 58%
How To Reduce Website Downtime