Alternatives
An UptimeRobot alternative for agencies
UptimeRobot is a widely used uptime monitoring service with a large free plan. Pingtier is uptime and TLS certificate monitoring for web agencies and MSPs that look after many client websites. This page compares the two. UptimeRobot facts come from UptimeRobot's own public pages, as of November 2026 (checked 2026-11-08).
Pingtier opens as a free beta soon. Sign-up is not open yet.
Who each tool fits
UptimeRobot can fit you better if you need:
- Many monitors for free. Its free plan has 50 monitors.
- Status pages, from 1 basic page on the free plan to many on paid plans.
- Checks every 15 seconds (on its Scale plan).
- Alerts by SMS, voice call, mobile push, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, webhooks and more.
- Checks from Australia.
Pingtier can fit you better if you:
- Look after websites for clients and want monitors grouped per client.
- Want to pay per client, not per monitor pack.
- Want an outage counted only when probes on two different providers agree.
- Use bot protection, and want a Blocked status instead of a false Down alert.
- Want checks from Europe, the US and Asia on the free plan.
- Want one daily email about certificates that expire soon.
Pingtier has no status pages, reports, SMS, phone alerts or public API.
Pingtier and UptimeRobot compared
UptimeRobot facts are as of November 2026 (checked 2026-11-08). Each UptimeRobot cell links its source. UptimeRobot's pricing page showed EUR prices to our check, and it notes that other regions may see other currencies. Pingtier facts describe the beta.
| Pingtier | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 clients, 5 monitors each, 15 per organisation, checks every 3 minutes, one user | EUR 0: 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval, 1 basic status page, 3 months of data, 5 integrations, no login or notify seats (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Paid price | Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT. | Solo, 10 monitors: from EUR 10/mo monthly or from EUR 9/mo annual. Team, 100 monitors: from EUR 41/mo or from EUR 35/mo annual. Scale, 200 monitors: from EUR 77/mo or from EUR 65/mo annual. Enterprise on quote. (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Fastest check interval | Every 3 minutes on the free plan. Every 30 seconds on the paid plan, after beta | Free 5 minutes, Solo 60 seconds, Team 30 seconds, Scale 15 seconds (false alerts page, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Regions | EU, US and Asia. Each monitor selects its regions, all by default, on every plan | Up to 4 regions: North America, Europe, Asia, Australia. Without a selection, North America. Multi-location needs a paid plan (help centre, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Outage confirmation | Down needs failures from at least 2 probes on different providers | Up to 3 re-checks within seconds, each from a different data center in the same region, on every plan (false alerts page, checked 2026-11-08) |
| When a firewall or bot protection blocks checks | Blocked status, with the probe IP addresses and User-Agent to allow. No Down alert | The help centre advises allowlisting its monitoring IPs and making sure keyword pages load without bot-blocking (help centre, checked 2026-11-08) |
| TLS certificate expiry | Notices at 30, 14 and 7 days in one daily digest at 08:00 your time. An SSL issue opens at 14 days or less. Chain and hostname are checked too | Alerts 30, 14 and 7 days before and on the expiry day by default; days can be changed (SSL monitoring). Included on Solo, Team and Scale (pricing), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| Domain expiry | Not offered | Domain expiry alerts on Solo, Team and Scale (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Alert channels | Slack and email, for Down and for recovery | Email, SMS, voice call, mobile push, plus integrations such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram, Discord and webhooks (integrations). SMS and voice need credits. Webhooks and PagerDuty on Team and Scale (pricing), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| Status pages | Not offered | 1 basic page on Free, 3 on Solo, 100 on Team, unlimited on Scale (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Team seats | One user on the free plan. The team comes with the paid plan, after beta. Roles: Owner, Admin, Technician | 0 login seats on Free and Solo, 3 on Team, 5 on Scale. Extra login seats from $15/mo billed annually (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
Prices and features change. Check the linked pages for current details.
What Pingtier does for agencies
- Clients first. You add a client, then its hostnames. Add one hostname or paste a list.
- One price per client. Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT. The paid plan allows up to 10 enabled monitors per client.
- Checks. HTTP(S) status, keyword, response time (shown as charts) and TLS certificate (expiry, chain, hostname).
- A Today list. Down, Blocked and SSL issues appear in one list. You can acknowledge, assign and snooze them. You resolve a Down issue by hand. Blocked and SSL issues close by themselves.
- Client message drafts. Each incident has a draft for the client. Use Copy, Open in email or Mark as told. Pingtier never sends anything to your clients.
- Your time zone. Times show in your organisation's time, with the zone.
See pricing for the free and paid limits.
Moving from UptimeRobot
- Export or list the monitors you have today.
- Group them by client.
- In Pingtier, add each client and paste its hostnames.
- Connect Slack, or use the email alerts.
- Allow the Pingtier probes in your bot protection. How Pingtier checks lists the IP addresses and the User-Agent.
The free plan has 15 monitors in total. If you have more sites, start with your most important clients.
How Pingtier confirms an outage
One failed check does not send an alert. Pingtier asks up to 3 more probes, each on a different provider, to check the site. It opens a Down incident only when at least 2 probes on different providers see the failure. Then it sends the Slack and email alert at once. It sends another alert when the site recovers.
Pingtier runs 8 IPv4 probes on 4 providers: 4 in Europe, 2 in the US and 2 in Asia. Each region has probes on at least 2 providers. If a site blocks visitors from a region, unselect that region for its monitor. The incident shows the result per region.
If bot protection answers every probe with a challenge, the monitor shows Blocked. Pingtier sends one email with the probe IP addresses and the User-Agent to allow. It does not open a Down incident.
Read the details on outage confirmation. Also compare Pingtier with Pingdom and StatusCake.
Start free beta
Pingtier opens as a free beta soon. Sign-up is not open yet.
Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT.
FAQ
Can I sign up for Pingtier today? Not yet. Sign-up opens soon. The Start free beta button takes you to a page that says when sign-up opens.
Why does the Pingtier free plan have fewer monitors? Pingtier's free plan is built around clients: 3 clients with 5 monitors each, 15 in total, checked every 3 minutes. It includes checks from Europe, the US and Asia.
Does Pingtier monitor domain expiry or have status pages? No. Pingtier checks uptime and TLS certificates. It has no domain expiry monitoring, status pages, SMS or public API.
When did you check the UptimeRobot facts? We checked UptimeRobot's public pages on 2026-11-08. Prices and features can change, so check the linked pages for current details.