Every Uptime Kuma Head-to-Head Comparison

UptimeRobot's 30-second checks start on Team at $41/mo, or $35/mo annual. Uptime Kuma checks every 20 seconds on a $3/mo pod, with unlimited monitors.

Looking to self-host Better Stack? Uptime Kuma is the open-source equivalent you can run yourself: unlimited monitors, no seat limits, $3/mo on InstaPods against $25+/mo for Better Stack.

Pingdom's cheapest Synthetic plan is $18/mo, or $16.50/mo billed annually, for 10 uptime checks. Uptime Kuma self-hosts for $3/mo with unlimited monitors.

Checkmk is a full monitoring server with agents, SNMP and 2000+ integrations, free to about 100 hosts. Uptime Kuma probes endpoints and publishes a status page for $3/mo.

Gatus vs Uptime Kuma compared for 2026. Both are free and self-hosted. The real difference is how you declare a check: a YAML file in Git, or a web UI. Here is which one fits.

Uptime Kuma vs Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring in 2026. Grafana meters test executions per probe per minute; Uptime Kuma is a flat $3/mo with a status page. Where each wins.

Uptime Kuma vs Healthchecks compared for 2026. Uptime Kuma probes your URLs from the outside; Healthchecks waits for your cron jobs to ping it. Both self-host free. Which one fits.

Uptime Kuma vs Nagios compared for 2026. Nagios Core is free but lives in text config files; Nagios XI starts at $2,595 for 100 nodes. Uptime Kuma is a web UI at $3/mo. Which fits.

Uptime Kuma vs Netdata compared for 2026. Netdata is a per-second metrics agent with a cloud that costs $4.50 per node; Uptime Kuma is an uptime monitor with a status page. Which fits.

Uptime Kuma vs Prometheus for uptime monitoring in 2026. Prometheus needs Blackbox exporter, Alertmanager and Grafana to do what Uptime Kuma does in one app. Which one fits you.

Pulse watches your Proxmox, Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure. Uptime Kuma watches your sites from outside. Here's why most homelabs run both, from $3/mo.

Uptime Kuma vs Zabbix for 2026. Zabbix is a full monitoring platform with agents, SNMP and a database to run. Uptime Kuma is a one-app uptime monitor. Which one you should pick.