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Uptime.com is trial-then-pay; our free plan doesn't expire. Twenty-five monitors at one-minute checks, a status page and all six alert channels, indefinitely — a real home for small projects, not a countdown.
247Monitor vs Uptime.com
Uptime.com is an enterprise monitor with no free tier, a 10-minute interval on its entry plan, and a status page sold separately. 247Monitor is free to start, checks every 30 seconds from £9, and bundles the status page in.
Uptime.com is an enterprise platform: real-browser transaction checks, domain-health and blacklist monitoring, SLA reporting and a probe network past 100 locations — priced and shaped for requirements most teams don't have.
The shape shows in the entry tier. There's no free plan — just a trial — the ~$20 Starter checks only every 10 minutes (one-minute intervals are a Premium feature), status pages are a separate module from $19/month capped at four, and it all bills in dollars. 247Monitor starts free, checks every 30 seconds from £9, and includes the status page on every plan.
Side by side
The table, row by row.
Facts checked against Uptime.com's own pricing and documentation, June 2026. Rows where Uptime.com wins are marked too — comparisons you can't trust aren't comparisons.
| 247Monitor | Uptime.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓25 monitors · 1-min checks · status page · free forever | ·None — 14-day trial only |
| Entry price | ✓£0 free · £9/mo for 30s checks + browser journey | ·~$20/mo Starter: 20 checks at 10-min intervals |
| Fastest check interval | ✓30 seconds on every paid plan | ·1 minute — but only on the Premium tier; Starter is 10-min |
| Status pages | ✓Included on every plan | ·Separate module from $19/mo, capped at 4 pages |
| Real-browser / transaction checks | ✓Bundled from £9 with screenshots, logs & traces | ·Strong, but Starter includes just 1 transaction check |
| Monitor types | ·HTTP, keyword, ping, port, SSL, domain expiry, DNS, heartbeat, browser & server agent | ✓Broadest going — adds domain blacklist, malware & RUM |
| Monitoring locations | ·3 continents, cross-region confirmation | ✓100+ probe servers worldwide |
| Alert channels | ·Email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, webhooks | ✓Adds SMS & automated voice calls |
| Result history | —30 days free · up to 3 years on Business | —24 months |
| Currency | ✓GBP or USD, auto by region | ·USD only |
The case for switching
Why teams pick 247Monitor over Uptime.com
30-second checks at the entry tier
Uptime.com's ~$20 Starter checks every 10 minutes, and one-minute intervals mean upgrading to Premium. Every paid 247Monitor plan checks every 30 seconds — twenty times faster than their entry plan, for less money.
The status page is included
Uptime.com sells status pages as a $19/month module capped at four pages. Ours come on every plan, with subscribers and incident updates — and white-label custom-domain pages on Business.
Priced in your currency
Uptime.com bills in dollars with quotas split across check types. We bill in GBP or USD by region — friendlier for UK and EU teams on both the exchange rate and the VAT paperwork.
FAQ
Switching questions
Does 247Monitor have a free plan like Uptime.com?
Uptime.com doesn't have a free plan — only a trial. We do: 25 monitors, one-minute checks, a status page and all six alert channels, free forever. It's a genuine resting place for smaller setups, not a 14-day clock.
Is Uptime.com's monitoring more thorough?
It has a broader catalogue — domain blacklist, malware and RUM checks we don't offer — and more probe locations. But for the core job, fast detection without false alarms, what matters is check frequency and cross-region confirmation, and our 30-second checks start at £9 versus their 10-minute entry plan.
How hard is it to switch from Uptime.com?
Uptime, SSL, DNS, port and ping checks map directly; transaction checks rebuild as 247Monitor browser journeys. Most teams finish in an afternoon — and stop paying separately for the status page.
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