UptimePad is a direct UptimeRobot alternative built around three differences: SSL certificate and DNS drift monitoring are included on the free tier (UptimeRobot paywalls both), commercial use is allowed on free (UptimeRobot restricted it in October 2024), and the paid plans bundle status pages, server monitoring, and a public API instead of selling each as an add-on.
| Tool | Free tier monitors | SSL monitoring on Free | DNS drift on Free | Status page on Free | Commercial use on Free | Public API access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UptimePad Bundled, no add-ons | 50 | ✓ | ✓ | 1 public | ✓ | Read on Free, Read+Write on Starter |
| UptimeRobot Restricted to non-commercial since Oct 2024 | 50 | - | - | - | - | Paid tiers only |
Three things tipped the search volume on this query upward in the second half of 2025. In July 2025 UptimeRobot raised paid prices by roughly 4x, with the Solo plan moving to a much higher anchor. In October 2024 the free plan added a non-commercial-use clause that ruled out a large set of indie operators and small SaaS that had been using it for years. And in August 2025 the EU regions saw a wave of false-positive alerts that left teams paged at 3am for outages that never happened.
None of those events make UptimeRobot a bad product. They make it a worse fit for people who picked it because it was the cheap option. That is who UptimePad is for.
If you have been on UptimeRobot for years, your monitors are configured the way you want, and you only use the bare HTTP check, the migration cost can outweigh the feature gap. UptimePad ships a CSV import from UptimeRobot exports on Starter and above to keep that cost low, but the honest answer is: if your setup works and the price hike does not change your math, stay where you are.
UptimePad is a paid commercial product. The free tier exists because the unit economics support it, not because the company is hobbyist. SLAs, response times, and probe coverage are the same code paths that run for paying customers.
Yes. Starter and higher plans support CSV import from UptimeRobot exports. Free plan users add monitors manually (most setups take under 60 seconds per monitor from the dashboard).
Yes. The free tier is explicitly licensed for commercial use, including monitoring your client sites, internal tools, and revenue-bearing endpoints. That is the line UptimeRobot crossed in October 2024 that we deliberately did not.
Free plans monitor from 1 region. Starter unlocks 2, Pro unlocks 3, Scale unlocks all 4 (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia) plus regional consensus (an alert only fires when 2 of 4 regions agree, killing the false-positive class that hit UptimeRobot EU customers in August 2025).
For every monitored URL on HTTPS we run a TLS handshake on a separate schedule, parse the certificate chain, and alert on expiry windows (30, 14, 7, 1 day) and on chain validation failures. No certificate uploads, no separate setup, no separate fee. SSL monitoring is included on Free.
Pricing on UptimePad is flat per plan and published on /pricing. We have committed to no surprise re-pricing of existing plans and no quiet feature removal from free. If pricing changes for new signups, existing accounts stay on the price they signed up at.
Free plan covers 50 monitors with SSL, DNS, and one status page. No credit card required at signup, ever.
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