More monitors, more monitor types, and alerts that actually work — starting free.
| Feature | Pingura | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free / $9 mo | Free / $7 mo |
| Free plan monitors | 15 | 50 |
| Paid plan monitors | 50 (Starter) to 500 (Business) | 50 (Pro) to 100+ (Enterprise) |
| Check interval | 3 min (free) / 1 min (paid) | 5 min (free) / 1 min (paid) |
| Monitor types | HTTP, Keyword, TCP, UDP, DNS, Ping, databases, email, SSH, and more (17 types) | HTTP, Keyword, Ping, Port |
| SSL monitoring | ✔ (3 free, up to unlimited) | — |
| Domain expiration | ✔ (2 free, up to unlimited) | — |
| Heartbeat monitoring | ✔ (5 free, up to 200) | — |
| Server metrics | ✔ (Professional+) | — |
| Status pages | ✔ (all plans) | ✔ (paid plans) |
| Incident management | ✔ (Starter+) | — |
| Alert channels | Email, Slack, Webhook (free); + SMS, Teams, Push (paid) | Email (free); + SMS, Slack, Webhook (paid) |
| Private probes | ✔ (Starter+) | — |
| Team members | Up to 25 | Up to 100 (Enterprise) |
| Data retention | 7 days (free) to 2 years | 1–2 months (Pro) |
Pingura monitors SSL certificates, domain expiration, heartbeats, and server metrics out of the box. UptimeRobot only covers basic HTTP, keyword, ping, and port checks.
Get Email, Slack, and Webhook alerts on the free plan. UptimeRobot limits free users to email only.
Pingura checks every 3 minutes on free vs UptimeRobot's 5-minute interval — catch issues sooner without paying.
Track, manage, and resolve incidents directly in Pingura. UptimeRobot has no incident management features.
Yes, particularly if you have outgrown basic uptime checks. Pingura covers 17 monitor types against UptimeRobot’s four, and adds SSL certificate expiry, domain expiration, heartbeat (cron) monitoring, and server metrics as first-class features. Free-plan alerting also goes further: Email, Slack, and Webhook on Pingura versus email only on UptimeRobot.
UptimeRobot offers more raw monitors on the free tier — 50 against Pingura’s 15. Pingura’s free plan is narrower but deeper: it includes SSL and domain monitoring, five heartbeats, a public status page, a 3-minute check interval rather than 5, and Slack and webhook alerts. If you need high monitor volume on zero budget, UptimeRobot is the better fit.
Yes. Private probes let you run a lightweight agent inside your own network and monitor internal services that are not reachable from the public internet. UptimeRobot has no equivalent. Private probes are available on Starter and above.
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