Guide

UptimeRobot alternatives: when to switch, and when not to

UptimeRobot is a good monitor, and for many people its free plan is all they need. This page says when to stay, when another tool fits better, and how to move if you do.

When to stay

UptimeRobot's free plan has 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes, and allows commercial use. If 5-minute checks are enough and its alerts reach you, stay. BadgerBell's free plan has 10 monitors, so for many monitors on a free plan, UptimeRobot gives you more.

When BadgerBell fits

You want 1-minute checks on up to 50 monitors. BadgerBell Indie is $9 a month. UptimeRobot Solo with 50 monitors is $28 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly.
You want an alert to mean a confirmed outage. BadgerBell alerts only when a failure is confirmed from 2 of 3 places: San Francisco, Frankfurt and Singapore.
You run MCP servers. BadgerBell checks an MCP server's handshake and its tools, and alerts when a tool is added, removed or changed.
You want the price to stay put. A BadgerBell plan's price and what it includes are locked for as long as you stay.

Side by side

UptimeRobot's Free and Solo plans beside BadgerBell's Free and Indie plans
	UptimeRobot Free	UptimeRobot Solo, 50 monitors	BadgerBell Free	BadgerBell Indie
Price	$0	$28 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly	$0	$9 a month, or $90 a year
Monitors	50	50	10	50
Checked every	5 minutes	60 seconds	5 minutes	1 minute (30 seconds counts as 2)
Certificate expiry	No	Yes	Yes, with every website monitor	Yes, with every website monitor
Status pages	Basic	3, on your own domain	1	5, on your own domain
Team seats	None besides the owner	Not stated	3, you included	10, you included
History kept	3 months	12 months	3 months	12 months
MCP server monitors	Not stated	Not stated	Yes	Yes
Price locked while you stay	Not stated	Not stated	Yes	Yes

UptimeRobot’s figures are from uptimerobot.com/pricing, read on 8 November 2026. “Not stated” means their pricing page doesn’t say. BadgerBell’s are from our pricing page.

Moving

There's no import. Your assistant does it, through BadgerBell's MCP: connect BadgerBell, paste the prompt below with your UptimeRobot API key in it, and your assistant reads your monitors from UptimeRobot, proposes the matching BadgerBell monitors, and adds them after you say yes. You make the key in UptimeRobot under Integrations & API, then API.

Two things move by hand. A heartbeat gets a new address, so each job needs its new ping line, which your assistant shows you once the heartbeat is added. Slack, text and webhook contacts are added by a person in BadgerBell, so your assistant lists the ones to add. Keep UptimeRobot running until the new monitors have run for a few days.

Set it up with your assistant

Connect BadgerBell, paste one prompt, and your assistant proposes your monitors.

1. Connect BadgerBell

claude mcp add --transport http badgerbell https://app.badgerbell.com/mcp

Your assistant asks you to sign in to BadgerBell. You see every connected agent, and can revoke it, in the app.

2. Paste this prompt

I'm moving my monitors from UptimeRobot to BadgerBell. Here is my UptimeRobot API key: [paste it]. Use UptimeRobot's API to list my monitors with their type, address, interval, keyword and alert contacts. Don't change anything in UptimeRobot, and don't repeat my key. Ask me which BadgerBell project to put them in. For each monitor, propose the matching BadgerBell monitor, and list paused ones apart. Check my plan's limits on badgerbell.com/pricing: if there are more monitors than my plan holds, or checks faster than it allows, tell me first and suggest what to do. List the alert contacts I'll need to add in BadgerBell myself. Show me the whole list, and add the monitors in BadgerBell only after I say yes. Then, for each heartbeat, show me the new line to put in the job.

Use a read-only key if UptimeRobot offers one; the prompt tells your assistant not to change anything there. Delete the key in UptimeRobot after the move. No assistant that can call an API? Paste your monitor list in place of the key.

Anything public or destructive waits for you in BadgerBell.

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