Zinn® UptimeNo per-person pricing: everyone on your account gets the email alerts, and the price only changes when you watch more websites.
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Zinn® Uptime and Better Stack Uptime compared: free monitors, check speed, phone alerts, status pages and price.
The short answer
Better Stack is an incident-management platform for engineering teams, priced per responder. Zinn® Uptime is plain website monitoring for site owners and agencies: free to start, a flat price per pack of websites, and no seats to count.
| Zinn® Uptime | Better Stack | |
|---|---|---|
| Free monitors | 3, checked every 5 minutes | 10 monitors and heartbeats, plus 1 status page[1] |
| Fastest check interval | 1 minute | 30 seconds[1] |
| Check types | HTTP(S) with keyword | HTTP(S) keyword, TCP and UDP port, SSL and domain expiry checks, heartbeats[1] |
| Public status pages | No | 1 included, more at $15 a month each[1] |
| SMS alerts | No | Unlimited SMS and phone-call alerts listed[1] |
| Certificate expiry warnings | No | Yes[1] |
| Domain monitoring | Free, unlimited domains | Yes, domain (TLD) expiry monitoring[1] |
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Prices are quoted in the currency each company showed on its own page when we read it, not converted.
Why people choose Zinn® Uptime over Better Stack
Simple to set up — add an address, pick where alerts go, done. No on-call schedules to design first.
Your domains are watched for expiry and nameserver changes for free, right beside your uptime history.
Where they are the better choice
Better Stack is built for engineering teams: on-call rotas, phone-call alerts, status pages, faster checks and logs in one place. If you run a service with an on-call team, it does far more than we do.
Where Zinn® Uptime fits
Zinn® Uptime fits a business owner or agency who simply wants to know when a website is down, without per-seat pricing: start free, add 10 more websites for $9 a month, and keep it on the same account as your hosting.
How to switch from Better Stack in three steps
Add the same websites
Create a free account and add each address you watch in Better Stack. Put a word from the page as expected text so a blank or broken page counts as down, not just an error code.
Connect your alerts
Choose where alerts go — email to everyone on the account, a Slack channel, a Telegram chat or a signed webhook — and send a test so you know it arrives.
Run both for a week, then decide
Keep Better Stack running while Zinn® Uptime builds up its own history. When both agree for a week, you can cancel the one you no longer need — nothing here locks you in.
Questions about switching from Better Stack
Can I use Zinn® Uptime and Better Stack at the same time?
Yes. They check your website independently from the outside, so running both side by side changes nothing on your site. Many people do this for a week before they switch.
Is Zinn® Uptime really free, or is it a trial?
It is free for good, not a trial: 3 websites checked every 5 minutes, with every alert channel and free domain expiry watching. More websites and one-minute checks come in packs of 10 for $9 a month.
Does Zinn® Uptime do everything Better Stack does?
No, and the table above says where. Zinn® Uptime does website checks with expected text, confirmed outages and domain watching very well; if you need the extra check types or features marked No, Better Stack may suit you better.
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Competitor details were read from each company's own public pricing page on the date shown under the table, and may have changed since. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Host the site with us too
Zinn® Uptime lives in the same account as Zinn Digital® Hosting: one login, one bill, and the sites you host with us sit right beside the ones you watch. Hosting comes with a 99.9% monthly availability guarantee, credited in one click if we miss it.
Monitoring and domain watching are free on every Zinn Digital® account, hosting or not.