You answer for 20 to 200 client sites, and each monitoring tool counts and prices them differently. This list compares six tools on six things an agency pays for.
How we chose and ordered the tools
The six are UptimeRobot, Oh Dear, StatusCake, Better Stack, Hyperping and OctoPing. We read the five competitors' pricing, feature and help pages on the date shown under the title and tested none of them. The OctoPing entry comes from our own product, its code and its documentation, and Axiolo runs OctoPing on client sites.
The table below names the tools that lead each of six criteria, judged by the values in the entries. A feature counts for a tool when one of its plans includes it, and that plan's cost is judged in the cost row alone. A row where no tool stands out names no leader and does not count. Places follow the rows led, tools on one count share a place in alphabetical order, and the counted rows weigh the same, which is our simplification.
Criteria and who leads
| Criterion | Leads | What decides it |
|---|---|---|
| Cost at 20, 60 and 200 sites | UptimeRobot | UptimeRobot is $35 or $41 at 60 sites and $65 or $77 at 200 on monthly billing, depending on the view of its page, and the lowest in the cost table either way. OctoPing is the cheapest paid plan at 20. UptimeRobot's free plan holds 50 monitors, and its pricing page calls it “Good for personal and commercial projects.” Hyperping's and Better Stack's free plans are labelled for personal projects, and OctoPing has none. |
| Vendor branding left on client status pages | Hyperping and UptimeRobot | Footer and tab icon are judged as on the white label list. Hyperping hides its footer on the Business plan and its docs list a favicon among the branding every plan can change. UptimeRobot's Team plan has 100 white-label status pages, and its help center describes a favicon upload, with no plan named. Both leave neither mark. OctoPing's pages carry no footer but show OctoPing's icon. Oh Dear's docs state that a small Oh Dear attribution in the footer of its status pages can't be removed today. StatusCake's knowledge base has no favicon setting in its Look and Feel article. Better Stack removes its footer only as a $250 monthly add-on, which does not count. |
| Client alerts or reports without the vendor's mark | StatusCake and Hyperping | StatusCake sells white label reports without StatusCake branding, on Superior and Business. On Business, Hyperping sends subscriber emails from a domain you verify and hides its status page footer. An OctoPing contact receives a page's alerts and a monthly summary, but the summary carries OctoPing's logo and subscriber email comes from OctoPing's sending domain. At Oh Dear, reports carry a small powered by Oh Dear mark and are not fully white-labeled. UptimeRobot offers monthly uptime reports for clients and notify-only seats, 3 on Team and 5 on Scale, and its page does not say what the reports contain. |
| Checks beyond uptime | Oh Dear | Oh Dear's docs list website uptime, API and endpoint, ping, TCP port, application health, scheduled task, performance, Lighthouse, sitemap, SSL certificate, broken links, DNS record, domain, DNS blocklist, port scanner and AI-powered monitoring. Every OctoPing site can also use hosting, robots.txt, noindex and page text checks. |
| Team seats | Oh Dear and OctoPing | Oh Dear has unlimited users on every plan. OctoPing has 2, 8 and unlimited seats by plan, so its Scale plan is unlimited too. Better Stack lists unlimited team members at $0 each with free access to Telemetry, while access to Incidents, including on-call, monitoring and status pages, needs a responder license. |
| Check interval | UptimeRobot | On UptimeRobot, Team checks every 30 seconds and Scale every 15 seconds. On Hyperping, Essentials and Pro check every 30 seconds and Business every 20 seconds. OctoPing checks every minute on Starter and every 30 seconds on 15 or 50 sites. |
Counting the leads gives the order below. OctoPing leads 1 of 6 criteria and shares fourth place with StatusCake. The leader calls are our judgments.
| Place | Tool | Criteria led |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UptimeRobot | 3 of 6 |
| 2= | Hyperping | 2 of 6 |
| 2= | Oh Dear | 2 of 6 |
| 4= | OctoPing | 1 of 6 |
| 4= | StatusCake | 1 of 6 |
| 6 | Better Stack | 0 of 6 |
The six tools in order
1. UptimeRobot
- Best for. In our view it suits agencies that weigh price, check interval and a free plan most, and a large book of sites where uptime is the main need.
- Covers. Its guide to monitor types lists HTTP(s), keyword, ping, port, cron job (heartbeat), DNS, API, UDP and website change monitoring. On paid plans SSL and domain expiry share one slot with the website monitor.
- Price. The free plan holds 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes. Team (100 monitors) is $35 monthly or $30 annual in one view and $41 or $35 in another, and Scale (200 monitors) is $65 or $55 and $77 or $65. UptimeRobot prices by country. Its page showed Team at $35 to one view and $41 to another on Nov 7, 2026.
- Limits. The free plan leaves out DNS, SSL, domain expiry and heartbeat monitoring. Each DNS monitor takes a slot of its own, and a keyword monitor beside a website monitor takes a second slot. Login seats are 3 on Team and 5 on Scale.
2= Hyperping
- Best for. In our view it suits agencies that weigh white-label pages with own-domain email most, or whose clients need on-call schedules, escalation policies and phone call alerts.
- Covers. Checks every 30 seconds on Essentials and Pro and every 20 seconds on Business, from 18 regions in its plan table and 17 on its uptime page. It offers SSL and domain expiry monitoring on every plan, Free included, and Essentials starts on-call schedules, escalation policies and phone call alerts.
- Price. The free plan has 20 monitors. Essentials (50 monitors) is $29 monthly or $24 annual, Pro (250) is $89 or $74, and Business (1,000) is $299 or $249. The trial runs 14 days with no card.
- Limits. White labeling is on the Business plan only. Seats are 3 on Essentials, 10 on Pro and 20 on Business. Its free plan is labelled “For personal projects and trying out Hyperping.”
2= Oh Dear
- Best for. In our view it suits agencies that weigh check breadth, team seats and branded client reports most.
- Covers. Plans include unlimited status pages with a custom domain, logo, favicon and colors, and its agency page says clients can be invited as guests who can look at their own sites and status pages and change nothing.
- Price. Studio holds 25 sites for $109 monthly, Agency Plus holds 75 for $219, and Scale holds 200 for $439. Yearly billing is 2 months free, and the 10-day trial needs no card.
- Limits. Its docs say a small Oh Dear attribution in the footer of its status pages can't be removed today, and reports carry a small powered by Oh Dear mark and are not fully white-labeled. Its pricing FAQ says “Per site, we're not the cheapest option.”
4= OctoPing
- Best for. In our view it suits agencies that look after clients' marketing sites and want white-label status pages and client alerts inside the plan price.
- Covers. Every site can use uptime, SSL, domain expiry, DNS (nameserver and mail records), hosting (network and CDN changes), robots.txt and noindex, and page text checks, with heartbeats for scheduled jobs. Status pages are unlimited and white-labelled on every plan. A client added as a contact receives the page's alerts and a monthly summary without a seat.
- Price. Starter (20 sites) is $19 monthly or $15.83 annual, Agency (60 sites) is $49 monthly or $40.83 annual and Scale (200 sites) is $129 monthly or $107.50 annual. OctoPing has a 14-day trial with no card, and no free plan.
- Limits. OctoPing sends no SMS, phone or on-call alerts and has no browser checks. The page text check can skip headlines, prices, buttons and footers. Every email to a contact carries the OctoPing logo and a line saying your agency monitors the client's sites with OctoPing. Subscriber email comes from OctoPing's sending domain under your page title, and a status page's browser tab shows OctoPing's icon.
4= StatusCake
- Best for. In our view it suits teams that want uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server monitoring in one account, tested from many locations.
- Covers. Its homepage names uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server monitoring, and it tests from 43 locations in 30 countries. Business adds sub accounts for staff or clients, set to View Only or Full Access and limited to tests you tag.
- Price. Superior (100 uptime monitors) is $24.49 monthly or $20.41 annual, and Business (300) is $79.99 or $66.66. It lists a free plan and a 7-day trial of the paid plans.
- Limits. StatusCake counts uptime, SSL and domain monitors as separate allowances. Its status pages are sold as StatusCake Pages plans, from $14.95 monthly.
6. Better Stack
- Best for. In our view it suits teams whose own engineers carry pagers and want logs, traces, metrics, error tracking and real user monitoring beside uptime monitoring.
- Covers. Its uptime feature list includes keyword checks, TCP and UDP port monitoring, SMTP, ping, SSL monitoring, TLD expiration monitoring, DNS server monitoring, multi-location checks, screenshots of errors and maintenance windows.
- Price. One responder license is $34 monthly or $29 annual and includes 10 monitors. Extra monitors come in blocks of 50 at $25 monthly or $21 annual. The free plan includes 10 monitors and heartbeats and 1 status page.
- Limits. Responders, monitor blocks and status pages are separate items. Removing the Powered by Better Stack footer costs $250 monthly per page. Its free plan is labelled “Free for personal projects.”
Cost at 20, 60 and 200 client sites
Prices are US dollars a month for one uptime monitor per site, plus one domain monitor where a tool counts domains separately, monthly billing first and annual second. Oh Dear's annual figure is our arithmetic: ten months of its monthly fee, divided by 12. UptimeRobot varies its prices by country, and Team read $35 in one view of its page and $41 in another on Nov 7, 2026.
| Tool | 20 sites | 60 sites | 200 sites |
|---|---|---|---|
| UptimeRobot | Solo, 50 monitors: $22 monthly, $19 annual. Free plan: $0 | Team, 100 monitors: $35 monthly, $30 annual, or $41 and $35 in another view | Scale, 200 monitors: $65 monthly, $55 annual, or $77 and $65 in another view |
| Oh Dear | Studio, 25 sites: $109 monthly, $90.83 annual | Agency Plus, 75 sites: $219 monthly, $182.50 annual | Scale, 200 sites: $439 monthly, $365.83 annual |
| OctoPing | Starter: $19 monthly, $15.83 annual | Agency: $49 monthly, $40.83 annual | Scale: $129 monthly, $107.50 annual |
| Hyperping | Essentials, 50 monitors: $29 monthly, $24 annual | Pro, 250 monitors: $89 monthly, $74 annual | Pro, 250 monitors: $89 monthly, $74 annual |
| Better Stack | 1 responder and 1 extra block of 50 monitors: $59 monthly, $50 annual | 1 responder and 1 extra block of 50 monitors: $59 monthly, $50 annual | 1 responder and 4 extra blocks of 50 monitors: $134 monthly, $113 annual |
| StatusCake | Superior: $24.49 monthly, $20.41 annual | Business: $79.99 monthly, $66.66 annual | Past Business: custom pricing |
StatusCake's Business plan holds 120 domain monitors, so the 200-site row has no list price.
Who builds OctoPing
OctoPing is built by Axiolo, which uses it to watch its clients' marketing websites and landing pages. The checks, the client status pages and the monthly summaries are the ones Axiolo relies on for that work.
How it fits the price
A plan buys a number of sites, and each site carries every check. Unlimited white-labelled status pages and client contacts come with all three plans. Plans start at $19 a month for 20 sites. See pricing for the full list.
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