SolidPing vs Upptime
If you want a free status page for a few public URLs and you already live on GitHub, pick Upptime. There is nothing to host. GitHub Actions runs the checks, GitHub Issues hold the incidents, GitHub Pages serves the status site, and the history is committed to your repository. You create a repository from the template and edit one file.
SolidPing is a server you run (or our hosted version). That costs a machine, and buys faster checks, more protocols and an alerting model with on-call.
Upptime is built by Anand Chowdhary and is MIT licensed. Facts below come from its
repositories and docs on 6 October 2026 (engine uptime-monitor v1.44.1). If we got
a detail wrong, please open an issue.
At a glance
| SolidPing (self-hosted) | Upptime | |
|---|---|---|
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT (history data under the Open Database License) |
| Cost | Free | Free, uses your GitHub Actions minutes |
| What you run | One Go binary on SQLite or PostgreSQL | Nothing. A GitHub repository |
| Fastest interval | 10 seconds | 5 minutes, the GitHub minimum for scheduled workflows |
| Timing guarantee | Runs on your schedule | GitHub says scheduled runs can be delayed under high load, and some queued jobs may be dropped |
| Check types | 40, including HTTP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, DNS, SSL, SMTP, SSH, gRPC, seven databases and browser checks | HTTP(S) and TCP. Optional HTTP or ping checks from Globalping locations |
| Incidents | Incidents with correlation, escalation and maintenance windows | A GitHub issue opens when a site goes down and closes when it is back |
| Alert channels | Email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, ntfy, PagerDuty, webhooks and more; SMS and voice through your own Twilio | Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, Zulip, Gotify, webhook, email, and eight SMS providers |
| On-call & escalation | Rotations, overrides, multi-step escalation | No |
| Status page | Public, sections, custom domains, subscribers | Static site on GitHub Pages, custom domain, i18n, scheduled maintenance |
| Private setup | Private by default | The status site expects a public repository; private needs a proxy API |
| Multi-region | Workers and private agents you run anywhere | The Actions runner, or Globalping locations |
| Automation | REST API, sp CLI, YAML apply, MCP server | The GitHub API on your repository |
Where Upptime is the stronger choice
Nothing to host. No server, no database, no container. A public repository on GitHub's free plan is enough.
Git is the audit trail. Every config change is a commit, every incident is an issue, every data point is in the history.
SMS out of the box. Eight SMS providers are wired in. SolidPing does SMS through your own Twilio account.
Zero cost for a handful of public URLs. For a personal site or a small open-source project, it is hard to beat.
Where SolidPing is the stronger choice
Interval and timing. SolidPing checks as often as every 10 seconds, on schedule. Upptime checks every 5 minutes at best, and that is GitHub's documented behaviour, not a flaw in Upptime.
Protocols. 40 check types against HTTP and TCP. If you watch a mail server, a database, a DNS record or a gRPC service, SolidPing has a check for it.
Alerting. On-call rotations, escalation, maintenance windows that mute alerts. Upptime opens an issue and notifies.
Private by default. Your dashboard and status page do not need a public repository.
The other model
SolidPing Cloud runs the same binary as the self-hosted build, so you can skip the server too. The free plan has 100 monitors, 10 checks a minute and 5 seats.
Which should you pick?
Pick Upptime for a free status page for a few public URLs, when 5-minute best-effort checks are enough and GitHub is where you work.
Pick SolidPing when you need checks faster than 5 minutes, targets that are not HTTP,
or on-call. SolidPing has no Upptime importer, but the sites list in
.upptimerc.yml maps to HTTP checks you can recreate through the dashboard, the API or
a YAML file.