Zinn® UptimeUptime monitoring alternatives compared
Zinn® Uptime compared fairly with UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake, Better Stack and Uptime Kuma — free tiers, check speed, alerts and status pages, from each company's own public pages.
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| Zinn® Uptime | UptimeRobot | Pingdom | StatusCake | Better Stack | Uptime Kuma | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free monitors | 3, checked every 5 minutes | 50, checked every 5 minutes[1] | No free plan listed; a free trial is offered[2] | 10, checked every 5 minutes[3] | 10 monitors and heartbeats, plus 1 status page[4] | Free, open source (MIT) — you install and run it on your own server[5] |
| Fastest check interval | 1 minute | 15 seconds on their Scale plan[1] | Not stated on the pricing page[2] | 30 seconds on their Business plan[3] | 30 seconds[4] | 20 seconds[5] |
| Check types | HTTP(S) with keyword | HTTP(S), keyword, ping, port, API, UDP and DNS checks[1] | Uptime, page speed, transaction checks, real user monitoring[2] | Uptime, page speed, SSL, domain, server[3] | HTTP(S) keyword, TCP and UDP port, SSL and domain expiry checks, heartbeats[4] | HTTP(S), keyword, JSON query, TCP, ping, DNS, push, WebSocket and Docker containers[5] |
| Public status pages | No | 1 on the free plan, more on paid plans[1] | Yes[2] | Yes[3] | 1 included, more at $15 a month each[4] | Yes, multiple status pages[5] |
| SMS alerts | No | SMS and voice-call credits, bought separately[1] | Yes, SMS credits included[2] | SMS credits on paid plans[3] | Unlimited SMS and phone-call alerts listed[4] | Through the 90+ notification services you connect yourself[5] |
| Certificate expiry warnings | No | SSL monitoring on paid plans[1] | Not stated on the pricing page[2] | Yes, with expiry alerts[3] | Yes[4] | Certificate info shown[5] |
| Domain monitoring | Free, unlimited domains | On paid plans: alerts 30, 14 and 7 days before expiry[1] | Not listed on the pricing page[2] | 1 on the free plan, more on paid plans[3] | Yes, domain (TLD) expiry monitoring[4] | Not listed[5] |
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Prices are quoted in the currency each company showed on its own page when we read it, not converted.
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