UptimeRobot alternative for agencies

In our view, a free plan is a fair reason to stay on UptimeRobot. OctoPing adds checks for failures that leave a site loading, at a higher price per monitor at 60 and 200 sites.

Quick verdict

In our view UptimeRobot is the better choice when you want uptime on many sites for the least money. Its free plan gives you 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes, and its pricing page describes the plan as “Good for personal and commercial projects.” That plan leaves out DNS, SSL, domain expiry and heartbeat monitoring. OctoPing fits when the sites are clients' marketing sites and you want robots.txt, noindex, hosting and page text checks beside uptime, SSL and domain expiry, plus a status page and a monthly summary that reach your client. OctoPing has no free plan.

Choose UptimeRobot if

• You want a free plan for plain uptime. UptimeRobot lists it with no credit card required, and it describes the plan as suitable for commercial projects.
• You want the lowest price per monitor, which the pricing section shows at three sizes.
• You need monitors beyond web checks. UptimeRobot's guide to monitor types lists HTTP(s), keyword, ping, port, cron job (heartbeat), DNS, API, UDP and website change monitoring. OctoPing has no ping, port, UDP or keyword monitor.

Choose OctoPing if

• You watch clients' marketing sites and want the hygiene checks on every site at one price. Checks for a move to another host or CDN and for an edit to a page's main text sit next to uptime, SSL and domain expiry. Robots.txt and noindex checks are not on UptimeRobot's list of monitor types.
• You count slots. On UptimeRobot each DNS monitor takes a slot of its own, and a keyword monitor beside a website monitor takes a second slot. OctoPing counts a site once, whichever checks you switch on.
• Clients want a page of their own. OctoPing's status pages are unlimited and white-labelled on every plan, and a contact on a page receives its alerts and a monthly summary that carries OctoPing's logo. UptimeRobot offers 100 white-label status pages on Team, notify-only seats for clients and monthly uptime reports for clients.

How the two compare

The UptimeRobot column draws on its pricing page, help center, knowledge hub and agency page.

Two gaps are narrower than the rows suggest. UptimeRobot offers a keyword monitor that alerts when a phrase is present in, or missing from, the page's HTML source, so a monitor can watch robots.txt for “Disallow: /” or a page for “noindex”, in a slot of its own. A DNS monitor can watch an A record, which a host move changes. OctoPing's checks need no phrase or expected address: robots.txt alerts on any change, noindex on a page gaining or losing it, and hosting on a new network or CDN.

Pricing at the same site counts

Figures are US dollars a month, billed monthly or annually (the monthly equivalent of a year paid at once). UptimeRobot's Team plan read $35 in one view of its page and $41 in another on Nov 7, 2026, because the vendor prices by country. Each site counts as one monitor.

At 20 sites the Free plan costs nothing but leaves out DNS, SSL, domain expiry and heartbeat monitoring. Solo, the cheapest plan with them, costs more than OctoPing's Starter, and offers 3 status pages on your own domain, with white-label only from Team. At 60 and 200 sites UptimeRobot costs less for one monitor per site, but slots can reverse that. Adding a DNS monitor to each of 60 sites brings the count to 120 slots, past the 100 on Team, and the next plan, Scale, costs $65 or $77 monthly and $55 or $65 annual by view, more than OctoPing's Agency either way.

Where UptimeRobot does more

• Speed. Checks run every 30 seconds on Team and every 15 seconds on Scale, while OctoPing's fastest is every 30 seconds on a set number of sites.
• Visual page changes. Its website change monitor offers a screenshot comparison of a page or of a selected area. OctoPing compares text only and cannot pick an area.
• Alert reach. Team includes 30 SMS or voice credits, which are one-off credits that do not renew with the plan, and lists webhook, Zapier and PagerDuty. OctoPing sends email, Slack, Discord, webhook and browser push alerts, with PagerDuty still on its roadmap.
• Onboarding and history. UptimeRobot offers bulk upload of a client portfolio, and Team keeps 24 months of history. OctoPing has no import, and its Agency plan keeps one year.

Moving over

Run both tools through OctoPing's 14-day trial, which needs no card, and compare their alerts before you change anything.

1. Add each monitored URL as a site, following the first site guide. Give each client a group.
2. A new site starts with uptime, SSL and domain expiry on. Turn on the rest per client, guided by catching a robots.txt block and detecting a host migration.
3. Rebuild your alerts from the alert rules. Anything that relied on SMS or voice calls needs another route, such as a signed webhook.
4. Recreate cron job monitors as heartbeats.
5. Give each client a view of their own. Build a status page per client and add the client as a contact, who then gets the monthly summary.

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

Every plan prices by site, with all the checks above and unlimited white-labelled status pages included. Plans start at $19 a month for 20 sites. See pricing for the full list.

Every account starts with a 14-day free trial. No card required. Start your 14-day trial and add one client's sites to see it working.