The UptimeRobot alternative with on-call built in
Keep the simple uptime checks, and add on-call rotations, escalation paths, phone calls you acknowledge with a key press, incidents and status pages, for your whole team at one price.
Which one fits you
UptimeRobot: UptimeRobot is a long-running uptime monitoring service with a well-known free plan. It checks websites, ports, ping, DNS, SSL certificates and heartbeats, and includes status pages; paid plans add faster checks, and Team and Scale add login seats.
Choose Spectate when
- You need on-call schedules and escalation paths, not just notifications.
- You want unlimited team members instead of counting login and notify seats.
- You want incidents with roles, a timeline, postmortems and a Slack channel per incident.
- You want SMTP, IMAP and POP3 checks, failure screenshots and a server agent.
- You want alerts from Grafana, Prometheus Alertmanager and Sentry in the same place.
Choose UptimeRobot when
- You need free monitoring: UptimeRobot's free plan has 50 monitors, and Spectate has no free plan.
- You need UDP checks.
- You want 15s checks: UptimeRobot Scale goes to 15s, Spectate to 30s.
- You want each monitor checked from several locations.
Spectate vs UptimeRobot, feature by feature
UptimeRobot pricing: UptimeRobot has a free plan with 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals. Paid plans are Solo from €9 a month, Team €35 a month (100 monitors, 3 login seats) and Scale €65 a month, billed yearly; extra login seats cost extra (checked October 2026).
| Feature | Spectate | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| HTTP(S) and keyword checks | Yes | Yes |
| Ping, TCP and DNS checks | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP, IMAP and POP3 checksUptimeRobot can check that a mail port is open, without speaking the protocol. | Yes | Partly |
| Shortest check interval | 30sTeam and Business; 60s on Starter | 15sScale; 30s on Team, 60s on Solo, 5m on Free |
| Check locations | 1 of 4 regions per monitorPick Europe, North America, Asia or Oceania per monitor; a failed check is rechecked from the same region after about 5s before the monitor goes down. | Multiple locations |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | Yes | Yes |
| Heartbeat (cron) monitors | Yes | Yes |
| Server monitoring agent | Yes | No |
| Failure screenshots | Yes | No |
| Alerting and on-call | ||
| On-call schedules and escalation pathsNot listed on UptimeRobot's pricing page. | Team and Business | No |
| SMS and phone calls | Included credits10, 50 or 200 credits a month per plan | Included creditsOne-time credits on paid plans (10 to 200), packs from $3 |
| Incidents | ||
| Incidents with roles and postmortemsUptimeRobot Team adds comments and post-mortems on incidents. | Yes | Partly |
| Status pages | ||
| Status pages included | 1, 5 or unlimited | 1, 3, 100 or unlimitedFree, Solo, Team, Scale |
| Subscriber email notifications | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | ||
| Price for 50 monitors and 5 responders | €48 a monthTeam: 50 monitors is under the 80-monitor minimum, so 80 × €0.60 = €48 a month (€480 a year). Unlimited members, so 5 or 50 responders cost the same. | About €74 a monthTeam €41 a month (100 monitors, 3 login seats) + 2 extra login seats at $19 a month each (about €33). Billed yearly: €35 + 2 × $15, about €61. |
| Per-user pricingUptimeRobot includes 3 or 5 login seats and charges for more. | No | Partly |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Billing currency | EUR | EURSeat add-ons and SMS packs are listed in USD |
| Data and compliance | ||
| Headquarters | Netherlands | Slovakia |
| Invoiced from the EU, in euros | Yes | EU companyUptimeRobot s.r.o. bills directly, cards through Stripe |
Checked in Oct 2026 from UptimeRobot's public pages (uptimerobot.com/pricing/, uptimerobot.com/terms/, uptimerobot.com/blog/uptimerobot-2020-update/). Prices change: if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@spectate.net and we'll fix it.
Moving from UptimeRobot
Most teams run both side by side for a week. Email help@spectate.net if you'd like a hand.
- 01Start a 14-day trial; no card needed. The trial runs on Team, with 80 monitors and on-call.
- 02Recreate your UptimeRobot checks as Spectate monitors. There is no importer; each monitor takes a minute or two, and help@spectate.net can help with larger lists.
- 03Connect your channels (email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, phone numbers) and set up an escalation path.
- 04Run both tools side by side for a few days, then move your status page domain with one DNS record.
Spectate and UptimeRobot
Is Spectate cheaper than UptimeRobot?
It depends on what you need. For free monitoring, UptimeRobot wins: Spectate has no free plan. For 50 monitors and 5 people with access, Spectate Team is €48 a month with on-call included, against about €74 a month on UptimeRobot Team with two extra login seats.
Can I import my monitors from UptimeRobot?
There is no importer. Recreating a monitor takes a minute or two, and help@spectate.net can help you move a longer list.
Does Spectate have a free plan like UptimeRobot?
No. Spectate has a 14-day trial without a card, then plans from €15 a month for 20 monitors. Paying customers fund the checkers, phone calls and support.
What does Spectate add over UptimeRobot?
On-call rotations and escalation paths, phone calls you acknowledge by pressing 1, incidents with roles and postmortems, a Slack app with incident channels, mail server checks, failure screenshots and a server agent.
Other tools teams switch from
Try Spectate next to UptimeRobot.
Set up your first monitor in under a minute. 14 days free, no credit card.