SolidPing vs UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot's free tier is the most generous thing in this market, and it has been for fifteen years. 50 monitors, no credit card, mobile apps, 2.5 million users. If you are one person watching fifty websites and five minutes of detection lag is fine, it is very hard to argue you out of it, and this page will not try.
Both sides here are hosted services. UptimeRobot is hosted only, so the comparison is against SolidPing Cloud and its real plan limits — not against the free self-hosted build, which is a separate answer covered below.
It is worth reading if you have hit one of UptimeRobot's edges: the free tier's five-minute interval, the monitor counts on the paid plans going down before they go up, the eight monitor types, or the absence of anything resembling on-call.
You can bring your setup with you. SolidPing ships a first-party UptimeRobot importer, with a dry-run mode so you can see exactly what you would get before anything is created.
Prices below were last checked against UptimeRobot's own pricing page in July 2026. If we've gotten a detail wrong, please open an issue.
At a glance
| SolidPing Cloud | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Hosted — the same AGPL-3.0 build also self-hosts, free | Hosted only |
| Free tier | 100 monitors, 10 checks/min, 5 seats, on-call included | 50 monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 status page |
| Free tier, in checks per minute | 10 — spend it as 100 monitors at 10 min, 50 at 5 min, or one at 10 s | 10 — fixed as 50 monitors at 5 minutes |
| Entry paid | €5/mo — 1,000 monitors, 20 checks/min, 10 seats | ~€7/mo — 10 monitors, 1-minute checks |
| Ladder | €0 → €5 → €15 → €45 | Free → Solo → Team → Enterprise |
| Minimum interval | 10 s on every plan (browser 60 s, JS 30 s) | 5 min free · 1 min paid · 30 s on Enterprise |
| Check types | 40 | 8 — HTTP, keyword, ping, port, heartbeat, SSL, domain, DNS |
| Heartbeat / cron | All plans, including Free | Paid plans only |
| Shared probe regions | 6 — Gravelines, Paris, Lauterbourg (FR), Nuremberg (DE), Kansas City (US), Tokyo (JP) | Multi-location on paid tiers, larger footprint |
| Private-network probing | Deported agents you run: 1 on Free, 2 / 3 / 5 on paid — the server cannot decrypt their credentials | Not available |
| Multi-user | Multi-tenant, roles, read-only accounts, SSO; 5 / 10 / 50 / 250 seats | Team features on higher tiers |
| On-call & escalation | Rotations, overrides, iCal feeds, multi-step escalation, on every plan | Not available |
| Notification channels | 15 on hosted plans — SMS, voice and WhatsApp are not included | 12+, including SMS, voice, Telegram, Pushbullet, Zapier |
| Mobile apps | No | Native iOS and Android |
| Config as code | YAML export / import / apply, REST API, sp CLI | REST API (v3) |
| Data location | Our infrastructure, in France | UptimeRobot's infrastructure |
| Import from UptimeRobot | Built in | — |
Where SolidPing Cloud is the stronger choice
The free tier does not slow you down to sell you a plan. Both free tiers are the same size — 50 monitors every five minutes is 10 checks a minute, and 10 checks a minute is exactly what SolidPing Cloud's free plan gives you. The difference is that ours is a budget and theirs is a shape. You can spend ours as 100 monitors at ten minutes, or fifty at five, or one endpoint checked every ten seconds while the rest idle. UptimeRobot's €7 plan buys the faster interval by cutting you to ten monitors; ours does it by letting you decide.
Eight monitor types is the real ceiling. UptimeRobot watches HTTP, keywords, ping, ports, heartbeats, SSL, domains and DNS. That is the entire list. SolidPing covers 40 — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Redis, MongoDB, ClickHouse; SMTP, IMAP and POP3, plus a passive email-reception check; gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, SIP; SSH, RDP, FTP, SFTP; SNMP, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus; NTP, DNSBL; headless-browser and sandboxed JavaScript checks. The moment the thing you need to watch is not reachable over HTTP, the comparison is over.
Nobody gets paged. UptimeRobot notifies — email, SMS, Slack, push — but it has no concept of who is on call tonight, no rotation, no escalation if the first person sleeps through it. SolidPing ships rotation schedules with overrides and iCal feeds plus multi-step escalation policies, on every plan including Free, with no PagerDuty subscription underneath.
Your assertions can be more than a substring. UptimeRobot does keyword presence. SolidPing does string, regex and JSONPath against the response body.
Heartbeats are not a paid feature. Cron monitoring is on every SolidPing plan. UptimeRobot puts it behind a subscription.
Checks that run inside your network. UptimeRobot probes from its own network only. SolidPing Cloud lets you run a deported agent in yours — one on Free — holding age-sealed credentials the server cannot decrypt.
Where UptimeRobot is the stronger choice
Fifteen years and 2.5 million users. Whatever goes wrong, it went wrong for somebody else first, and there is an answer online. SolidPing is younger and honesty demands we say so.
SMS and voice are included; ours are not. UptimeRobot has sent SMS for years. SolidPing Cloud includes no SMS, voice or WhatsApp on any plan today — the carriers bill per message and we have not priced them in. Every other channel is on every plan of ours, but if a text message is the thing that wakes your team, this row decides it.
Native mobile apps. iOS and Android, and they are good. SolidPing has a responsive dashboard and nothing in an app store.
A bigger probe footprint. Their paid multi-location coverage is wider than our six regions.
It is genuinely simpler. No workers to place, no regions to name, no roles to assign. If you are one person with a list of URLs, UptimeRobot is thirty seconds of setup and SolidPing's multi-tenancy, distributed workers and on-call are weight you are carrying for no reason.
More notification destinations out of the box. Pushbullet and Zapier are first-class there; our 15 hosted channels cover the common ground but not that long tail.
50 free monitors is still the best free active-monitoring offer in SaaS if five-minute detection is what you want. Ours is 100, but theirs has been paid for by fifteen years of staying up.
The other model, on both sides
UptimeRobot does not self-host. There is no on-premise build.
SolidPing does, and it lifts every cap in the table. The same Go binary, AGPL-3.0, on your own hardware: unlimited monitors, unlimited check rate, unlimited private agents and status-page domains, 30 members by default. SMS and voice work there too, because you bring your own Twilio account — so the one row where UptimeRobot beats SolidPing Cloud outright is a row the self-hosted build answers. What it costs instead is a VM, the upgrades, and being the person who notices when the monitoring itself stops.
Migrating from UptimeRobot
SolidPing has a first-party converter for UptimeRobot monitors, reachable through the API:
POST /api/v1/orgs/{org}/checks/import/convert?source=uptimerobot&dryRun=true
Run it with dryRun=true first: it returns exactly what would be created and what each
monitor became, without touching anything. Drop the flag when the result looks right.
Monitor types with no SolidPing equivalent are reported rather than silently dropped. Alert contacts and status pages are not part of the import — those you set up once on the other side.
Which should you pick?
Stay on UptimeRobot if the free tier covers you, five-minute detection is fine, every one of your checks is an HTTP request or a port, and SMS alerting matters. It is a good, stable, cheap tool and there is no prize for switching.
Look at SolidPing when the interval starts mattering, when you need to watch a database or a queue, when a second person needs an account with a role attached, or when somebody needs to be woken up rather than emailed. The importer means trying it costs an afternoon.