Quietbeat vs UptimeRobot: the UptimeRobot alternative

Quietbeat checks websites, ports and keywords every 60 seconds, or every 30 from Team, watches scheduled jobs through heartbeat pings, and adds on-call, escalation and a status page inside one flat plan with no login seats. Below, Quietbeat's plans are set beside UptimeRobot's, with every figure about UptimeRobot sourced and dated.

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Why teams choose Quietbeat over UptimeRobot

On-call and escalation in every paid plan. Rotations, overrides and escalation ladders from Solo at $9 a month, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team. A rotation emails the person on call; ladder pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. UptimeRobot: No on-call scheduling or escalation; Team and Scale can hand off to PagerDuty. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
No seats to buy. Teammates are unlimited from Team, and a page can reach 5 people on Team and 40 on Scale. UptimeRobot: Team includes 3 login seats and 3 notify seats; an extra login seat is from $15/mo billed annually. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
More monitors at the same interval. Team watches 200 monitors every 30 seconds for $19 a month billed monthly, or $190 a year. UptimeRobot: Team is 100 monitors every 30 s. The page as read showed euro prices: €41/mo billed monthly, €35/mo billed annually (€420/yr). (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Heartbeats on every plan, the free one included. A start ping opens a run, a fail ping carries the job's exit code, and the output you send travels with the beat. UptimeRobot: Heartbeat monitors on Solo and above. (source, 16 Oct 2026)

Side by side.

Quietbeat's column from the plan table the product enforces. UptimeRobot's column as of 2026-08-22–2026-10-16, each cell from the source it links.

	Quietbeat	UptimeRobot
Free plan	Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server.	Free: 50 monitors every 5 minutes, 1 status page, 3 months of history, 5 integrations, no login or notify seats. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Paid plan for a small team	Team: $19/mo or $190/yr, flat. 200 monitors every 30 s, 5 pageable people, unlimited teammates, 1 year of history.	Team: $39/mo billed annually ($468/yr): 100 monitors every 30 s, 3 login seats, $15/mo per extra login seat. Unverified since this date: the dollar base price was not reproduced when UptimeRobot's page was read on 16 October 2026. (source, 22 Aug 2026) When the page was read on 16 October 2026 it showed euro prices only: Team €35/mo billed annually (€420/yr), €41 monthly, with 100 monitors every 30 s, 100 status pages, 3 login and 3 notify seats. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Fastest check	30 s from Team; 60 s on Hobby and Solo.	5 minutes on Free, 60 s on Solo, 30 s on Team, 15 s on Scale. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
On-call and escalation	Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price.	No on-call scheduling or escalation. SMS and voice credits are included per paid plan, and Team and Scale can hand off to PagerDuty. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Status pages	Included on every plan, with badges; your own domain from Solo.	1 on Free, 3 on Solo, 100 on Team, unlimited on Scale. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Heartbeat and cron monitoring	Included on every plan: GET or POST /b/:token, with /start and /fail, a grace period, and a diagnostic payload stored with the beat.	Heartbeat monitors on Solo and above. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
API and MCP	REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and a first-party MCP server, read and write, on every plan including Hobby. One token serves both.	API on every plan, Free included. (source, 16 Oct 2026) API rate limit of 10 requests a minute on Free. (source, 16 Oct 2026) Webhook alerts on Team and Scale. (source, 16 Oct 2026) A hosted MCP server at mcp.uptimerobot.com/mcp, read-only or full, with a Bearer API key. (source, 16 Oct 2026)

Prices are each vendor's own published figures on the date shown; a per-user price is multiplied by the people on your rota, and Quietbeat's is not. Where UptimeRobot's page could not be read with confidence, or a figure could not be reproduced, the cell says so or says less.

How Quietbeat is shaped.

What scales is how many people a page can reach, not how many teammates you invite: teammates are unlimited from Team, and a page reaches 5 people on Team and 40 on Scale.
Monitoring and paging share one incident: the alert carries what the checker saw, and the same incident drives the status page, the escalation ladder and the acknowledgement.
Open to code and to agents on every plan, Hobby included: a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, a write-capable MCP server, and a sync manifest for monitoring as code.
Hosted in Germany, in the EU, by an EU company.

Moving over from UptimeRobot to Quietbeat.

Quietbeat imports from UptimeRobot. Paste your read-only API key at /import/uptimerobot; the importer reads your account, shows the plan as a checklist and creates only what you tick. It never deletes anything, here or there. The key is read-only: UptimeRobot → Integrations → API → Read-only API key → Create.

HTTP, keyword, port and heartbeat monitors come across with their names and intervals; ICMP ping monitors are skipped with a note, because Quietbeat has no ICMP check.
Heartbeat ping URLs cannot transfer, so each cron is pointed at its new URL before UptimeRobot is switched off.
After the import is applied, Quietbeat reads the UptimeRobot log by itself for the monitors it just brought across: the outages the log returns and the days around them, as far back as your plan keeps. The log is read in batches of up to 200 events, so a single very busy day can come back incomplete.
Alert contacts, status pages and maintenance windows are not read.

The step-by-step migration guide

Questions people ask.

Why switch from UptimeRobot to Quietbeat?

On-call and escalation in every paid plan; no seats to buy; more monitors at the same interval; and heartbeats on every plan, the free one included.

Is Quietbeat a free UptimeRobot alternative?

Quietbeat's free plan needs no card. Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server. On UptimeRobot's side, Free: 50 monitors every 5 minutes, 1 status page, 3 months of history, 5 integrations, no login or notify seats.

What does Quietbeat cost next to UptimeRobot?

Quietbeat: Team: $19/mo or $190/yr, flat. 200 monitors every 30 s, 5 pageable people, unlimited teammates, 1 year of history. UptimeRobot: Team: $39/mo billed annually ($468/yr): 100 monitors every 30 s, 3 login seats, $15/mo per extra login seat. Unverified since this date: the dollar base price was not reproduced when UptimeRobot's page was read on 16 October 2026. When the page was read on 16 October 2026 it showed euro prices only: Team €35/mo billed annually (€420/yr), €41 monthly, with 100 monitors every 30 s, 100 status pages, 3 login and 3 notify seats.

Does Quietbeat include on-call, and does UptimeRobot?

Quietbeat: Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price. UptimeRobot: No on-call scheduling or escalation. SMS and voice credits are included per paid plan, and Team and Scale can hand off to PagerDuty.

Can I import my UptimeRobot monitors into Quietbeat?

Yes. Paste your read-only API key at /import/uptimerobot; Quietbeat reads your UptimeRobot account, shows the plan as a checklist and creates only what you tick. The key is read-only, so nothing there can change. HTTP, keyword, port and heartbeat monitors come across with their names and intervals; ICMP ping monitors are skipped with a note, because Quietbeat has no ICMP check. Heartbeat ping URLs cannot transfer, so each cron is pointed at its new URL before UptimeRobot is switched off. After the import is applied, Quietbeat reads the UptimeRobot log by itself for the monitors it just brought across: the outages the log returns and the days around them, as far back as your plan keeps. The log is read in batches of up to 200 events, so a single very busy day can come back incomplete. Alert contacts, status pages and maintenance windows are not read.

Figures about UptimeRobot in these answers are the ones above, with their sources and dates.

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