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PingWise vs UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot confirms a failed check with up to 3 retries in the same region. PingWise pages you only when 10 of 15 probes, on 3 continents and 3 providers, agree.

Which one should you pick?

Pick UptimeRobot if you need SMS or phone-call alerts today; ours are not shipped yet. On free monitoring it no longer wins: its free plan covers 50 monitors at 5 minutes, checked from one region at a time, and our free 650,000 credits a month cover 75 five-minute monitors, confirmed across continents.

Pick PingWise if a false alarm at 3 a.m. costs you more than a few euros a month. UptimeRobot documents up to 3 retries in the same region before it alerts. We check every scheduled round from several cities at once, and page you only when two thirds of 15 probes fail on at least 3 continents and 3 providers, two rounds in a row. For 50 monitors every minute, the table below shows €7.55 a month here against UptimeRobot’s €19, with no subscription.

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Price per month

HTTP monitors at the given interval, on each service's cheapest plan that covers it. Annual billing where it's cheaper. Prices in each vendor's own currency, not converted. Checked 26 Oct 2026.

Service	Cheapest paid	10 × 1 min	50 × 1 min	50 × 5 min	Free tier	Locations	Before alerting
PingWise	credits from €5	free	€7.55	free	650,000 credits every month	15 cities, 6 continents	Two thirds of 15 probes (10), 3 continents, 3 providers, 2 rounds in a row
UptimeRobot	€9/mo · Solo, annual	€9	€19	€0free plan · 1 region, no cross-location confirmation	50 monitors @ 5 min	4 regions	Up to 3 retries in the same region

PingWise prices use the rate of the credit pack a year of that usage would use up.

Features

On each service's cheapest paid plan, as documented by that vendor.

✓ documented by the vendor · – documented as not offered · n/d not found in the vendor's public documentation · text = yes, with that limit

Feature	PingWise	UptimeRobot
Every check from several locations at onceon every scheduled check, not only when confirming	✓	–
Confirmation before pagingwhat the vendor documents happens after a failed check	2 rounds, all 15 probes	3 retries, same region
Confirmation must span continentsa failure in one region can't page you	✓	–
Confirmation must span providersone provider's network trouble can't page you	✓	n/d
Broken probes removed automatically	✓	n/d
WAF challenge shown as “blocked”, not down; Cloudflare allow-list managed for youconnect your Cloudflare account; we keep the skip rule in place	✓	n/d
What each probe saw, in the alert	✓	n/d
Prepaid credits, no subscription	✓	–
Unlimited team memberson the cheapest paid plan	✓	3 on Team
Telegram and webhook alertson the cheapest paid plan	✓	webhook on Team
Slack, Teams and Discord alertson the cheapest paid plan	✓	✓
PagerDuty alertson the cheapest paid plan	✓	Team plan
15-second checks	verified domains	✓
Ping (ICMP) to any host	✓	✓
SMS and phone alerts	soon	✓
Public status pageswith your logo and colours	✓	✓
Monitor groups: a status page, an alert channel and a maintenance window per groupone group per monitor; the dashboard shows a section per group	✓	tags
Bulk changes across every monitor that matches a filterinterval, channels, group, pause, delete; the monthly credit cost is shown before you confirm	✓	✓
Import from other monitoring tools, with a preview firstwhat the vendor documents it can read in	UptimeRobot, updown.io, Uptime Kuma, CSV	n/d
Heartbeat / cron monitoring	✓	✓
Domain expiry alertsregistrable domain of every monitor, checked daily	free · date by hand where the registry hides it	paid plans
Slow-response alerts	median of all probes, not one slow city	paid plans
Public APIkeys, monitors, incidents, groups; an OpenAPI document	✓	✓

Where UptimeRobot is the better choice

Being honest about this saves everyone time.

SMS and phone calls today

UptimeRobot documents SMS and voice-call alerts. Ours are planned after launch; today we alert by email, Telegram, Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat, PagerDuty, ntfy, Pushover and webhook. If your on-call person sleeps through Telegram and only a ringing phone works, UptimeRobot has that today and we don't.

More check types on paid plans

UptimeRobot’s paid plans add UDP checks and API monitors with JSON field assertions. We don’t offer either yet. If you monitor game servers, VoIP or other UDP services, or need to assert a field inside a JSON API response, that alone may decide it.

Third-party service status

UptimeRobot can follow the status of third-party services you depend on, from 1 to 100 services depending on the plan. We only watch what you point us at.

What PingWise does differently

Every scheduled check runs from several cities at once, not from one place with a retry.
The moment one probe sees a failure, every healthy probe checks again, free, before anyone is paged.
Nothing pages you until two thirds of our 15 probes (10) fail, on at least 3 continents and 3 different providers, two rounds in a row.
A WAF or Cloudflare challenge is reported as “blocked”, never as down.
Every alert says what each probe saw: resolved IP, status code, timing and error.
Prepaid credits, no subscription: 650,000 free every month, packs from €5, bought credits last 24 months.

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Sources

Compiled from each vendor's own pricing and documentation pages on 26 Oct 2026, linked under Sources. Vendors change plans and features; we re-check quarterly. All product names are trade marks of their owners and are used only to identify them. If you work at one of these companies and something here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we will correct it within one working day.