--- title: "UptimeRobot alternatives: when to switch, and when not to · BadgerBell" description: "UptimeRobot alternatives, fairly: when UptimeRobot's free plan is enough, when BadgerBell fits better (1-minute checks on 50 monitors for $9, outages confirmed from 2 of 3 places, MCP server monitors), and how to move." url: https://badgerbell.com/uptimerobot-alternative --- Skip to content [BadgerBell home](https://badgerbell.com/index.md) [Monitoring](https://badgerbell.com/index.md#monitoring) · [Status pages](https://badgerbell.com/index.md#status-pages) · [For AI agents](https://badgerbell.com/index.md#ai-agents) · [Pricing](https://badgerbell.com/pricing.md) · [Our promise](https://badgerbell.com/terms.md#terms-3) [Sign in](https://app.badgerbell.com/login) [Start free](https://app.badgerbell.com/signup) 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 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](https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/), read on 8 November 2026. “Not stated” means their pricing page doesn’t say. BadgerBell’s are from [our pricing page](https://badgerbell.com/pricing.md). ## 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 Code ``` 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. ## Cursor ``` {"mcpServers":{"badgerbell":{"url":"https://app.badgerbell.com/mcp"}}} ``` Add it to .cursor/mcp.json in your project. ## Claude or ChatGPT in the browser ``` Add a custom connector with this address: https://app.badgerbell.com/mcp ``` Copies the address. 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. [Start free, no card](https://app.badgerbell.com/signup?via=page-uptimerobot-alternative) [See pricing](https://badgerbell.com/pricing.md) ## Try BadgerBell free 10 monitors, a status page, and alerts by email, Slack and webhooks. Free for any use, no card. 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