For teams whose OneUptime bill grows with every seat
OneUptime Alternative With One Flat Price for Every User and Monitor
OneUptime charges per user on Growth and Scale, then $1 for every active monitor, then 10 cents for every text and every minute of every call. Each new teammate, client site and noisy night moves the bill. TrackDowntime charges one price per plan: Enterprise covers unlimited endpoints and unlimited recipients, and calls and texts are never metered.
Professional is $99 a month for 25 endpoints with calls and SMS. Enterprise is $299, or $149 billed yearly, for unlimited endpoints. No seat fees, no per message charges.
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- Price per user
- None on any plan
- Price per monitor
- None, plans are flat
- SMS and call charges
- Never metered
- Unlimited endpoints
- $299, or $149 yearly
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Which OneUptime alternative fits a team that wants a fixed monitoring bill
If OneUptime does what you need but the bill keeps climbing with headcount and monitor count, pick a monitor priced per plan instead of per seat and per check. OneUptime Growth is $22 per user a month ($20 yearly), plus $1 per active monitor and $0.10 per SMS or call minute. TrackDowntime Enterprise is $299 a month, or $149 yearly, for unlimited endpoints, with calls and texts to every number never metered. For one person watching ten sites, OneUptime's own pricing is cheaper and we would say so.
$1
Per active monitor a month on OneUptime, on top of the per user plan
$0
Charged per user, per monitor or per alert on TrackDowntime
~80
Monitors at which our flat Enterprise yearly price beats a 3 person OneUptime Growth team
What changes when you move uptime alerting off OneUptime
OneUptime is a broad, open source observability platform with status pages, on-call, incidents, logs and traces in one place. Teams that move their uptime checks and phone alerts away from it usually say the same thing: the product was fine, but three meters running at once made the monthly cost hard to predict and hard to approve.
No seat to buy for the next hire
Nobody on TrackDowntime is billed as a user. Add the developer who joined last week, the client's IT contact or the founder's phone, and the price stays where it was.
No meter on monitors
Enterprise covers unlimited endpoints. Onboarding a new client with 40 URLs, or spinning up a customer instance, adds nothing to the invoice.
Calls and texts that are never counted
Professional and Enterprise call and text every number on an endpoint. There is no 10 cent line per message and no second vendor account to keep funded.
Alerts that repeat until the site is back
Call, SMS and email go out at once and repeat at 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 minutes, then at 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 96 hours. Recovery goes out by SMS and email.
A history you can hand over
Each incident keeps its start, end and duration: 90 days on Professional and no limit on Enterprise. The uptime report prints cleanly and exports to CSV for a client or an SLA review.
Checks that tell an outage from a blip
A wrong status code opens an incident on the first check. A timeout is rechecked twice, 5 seconds apart, and a DNS timeout three times, 10 seconds apart, before anyone is woken.
Moving uptime alerting from OneUptime in an afternoon
Step 1
List the monitors that page people
Open your OneUptime on-call policies and note which monitors feed them. Those are the checks that cost you SMS and call minutes, usually checkout, login, the API and paying clients' sites.
Step 2
Add those URLs with every number
Paste each URL, set the expected status code and timeout, and add every phone that should ring, comma separated. It takes about a minute per endpoint and nothing is installed on your servers.
Step 3
Run both for a week
Leave OneUptime checking the same URLs. Both check from outside, so running them side by side changes nothing, and you can compare what each one caught.
Step 4
Trim OneUptime to what you still use
Keep OneUptime for status pages, logs or traces if your team uses them, with fewer active monitors and fewer paging seats. Or close it. Either way the alerting bill stops moving.
How much does OneUptime cost for a team?
OneUptime prices in three layers, read from oneuptime.com/pricing on October 14, 2026. The plan is billed per user: Growth is $22 per user a month, or $20 billed yearly, and Scale is $99, or $84 billed yearly. Active monitors cost $1 each a month, checked every minute from several locations. Then usage: $0.10 per SMS, $0.10 per WhatsApp message and $0.10 per minute of each phone call. Email, push and webhook alerts are free.
Here is what that adds up to. Assume four incidents a month, and every on-call person gets a text and a one minute call on five alert rounds per incident. That is about $4 per person a month in alerts.
| Team | OneUptime Growth, monthly | OneUptime Growth, yearly | TrackDowntime |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person, 10 monitors | $14 on the free plan | $14 | $99 Professional ($49 yearly) |
| 3 people, 25 monitors | $103 | $97 | $99 Professional ($49 yearly) |
| 5 people, 100 monitors | $230 | $220 | $299 Enterprise ($149 yearly) |
| 3 people, 300 monitors | $378 | $372 | $299 Enterprise ($149 yearly) |
| 5 people, 650 monitors | $780 | $770 | $299 Enterprise ($149 yearly) |
OneUptime offers a discount above 100 monitors on request, so ask for that quote before deciding. The full breakdown, including Scale and the free plan, is in our OneUptime pricing per user, monitor and SMS article.
When OneUptime is the better choice
For plenty of teams it is, and we would rather say so up front. A solo developer with ten monitors pays about $14 a month on OneUptime against $99 here. OneUptime checks from multiple locations, runs status pages with subscribers, on-call rotations, incident workflows, logs, traces and metrics, and its code is open source, so a team with spare servers can host the whole thing for no license fee. We sell none of those.
If your team uses OneUptime as its observability platform, keep it. The case for moving is narrower: a team of three or more, paging on dozens to hundreds of URLs, that wants the monitoring line on the budget to be the same number every month.
Is OneUptime cheaper with your own Twilio account?
It moves the cost rather than removing it. OneUptime lets you connect your own Twilio account, and then it charges nothing for SMS and calls. You pay Twilio at Twilio's rates instead, keep that account funded and registered for US messaging, and own one more vendor relationship that can lapse on a bad night.
On TrackDowntime Professional and Enterprise, calls and texts are part of the plan. There is no second account and no balance to watch. How the call and text sequence escalates while a site stays down is laid out on our downtime alerts by phone call page.
What you give up by moving, stated plainly
TrackDowntime runs an external HTTP check every 60 seconds on Professional and Enterprise from a single location, and every 5 minutes on Starter. We have no multi location checks, no keyword or content matching, no browser or transaction checks, no heartbeats, no status pages, no on-call rotations and no logs or traces. Alerts are phone call, SMS, email, Slack and a signed webhook.
What we do is narrow on purpose: check each endpoint, call everyone who should know, keep calling until it recovers, and keep an uptime report with the percentage, incidents and downtime minutes for any period you keep. If that is the part of OneUptime your team actually pays for, you can move it and stop paying seats to get it.
Who moves uptime alerting from OneUptime to TrackDowntime
Teams adding people every quarter
Each new engineer on OneUptime Growth adds $22 a month before they touch a monitor. On TrackDowntime the tenth person costs the same as the first.
Agencies with a client list that keeps growing
Every client site is another $1 monitor on OneUptime. On Enterprise it is another endpoint with its own alert numbers, at no extra cost. See our page on website monitoring for agencies.
SaaS teams with per customer instances
A new customer instance is a new monitor and a new line on the bill. On Enterprise it is one more endpoint, with unlimited history for SLA reports.
Finance teams that need a fixed number
Three meters make the monthly cost a forecast. One flat plan, billed monthly or yearly, makes it a line item that does not need approving again.
Founders who want every phone to ring
When the founder, the lead developer and the client contact all want the call, per message pricing grows with every name. Here each number on an endpoint is called at no charge.
Estates past 200 monitors
At 300 monitors a three person OneUptime Growth team pays about $378 a month. Enterprise is $299, or $149 billed yearly, with no ceiling on endpoints.
OneUptime compared with TrackDowntime
OneUptime figures come from oneuptime.com/pricing, read on October 14, 2026, including the per user billing label on its price toggle. Rows where OneUptime is stronger stay in, because they are the reasons to keep it.
| OneUptime | TrackDowntime | |
|---|---|---|
| How it is priced | Per user plan, plus per monitor, plus per message | Flat plans per endpoint count |
| Entry price | Free plan, monitors $1 each | $49 a month for 5 endpoints ($24 yearly) |
| Team plan | Growth $22 per user a month ($20 yearly) | Professional $99 flat ($49 yearly) |
| Per monitor | $1 a month each, discount above 100 on request | Included, unlimited on Enterprise |
| SMS and phone calls | $0.10 per SMS, $0.10 per call minute | Included on Professional and Enterprise |
| Cost, 3 people and 300 monitors | About $378 monthly, $372 yearly | $299 monthly, $149 yearly |
| Check interval | Every minute | 60 seconds on Professional and Enterprise |
| Check locations | Multiple | Single location |
| Status pages and on-call rotations | Yes | No |
| Logs, traces, metrics | Yes, $0.10 per GB | No |
| Self hosting | Yes, open source | No |
| Incident history | 90 days of monitor logs | 90 days on Professional, no limit on Enterprise, CSV export |
OneUptime also offers a 14 day trial on new paid accounts and volume discounts on request. Check both vendors' current pricing before you buy, since plans change.
Questions people ask before replacing OneUptime
What is the best alternative to OneUptime?
It depends on what you want to stop paying for. For uptime checks with phone calls and texts at one flat price, with no seats and no per message charges, TrackDowntime fits. For a free self hosted monitor, Uptime Kuma is the usual pick. For a full incident platform with on-call schedules, Better Stack or PagerDuty sit closer to OneUptime's scope.
Does OneUptime charge per user?
Yes. OneUptime's Growth and Scale plans are priced per user, at $22 and $99 a month, or $20 and $84 billed yearly. A user is someone who creates and manages monitors, incidents and other resources. Status page subscribers do not count. A five person Growth team pays $110 a month before adding a single monitor.
How much does OneUptime charge per monitor?
OneUptime charges from $1 per active monitor a month, checked every minute from multiple locations, on top of the plan. Above 100 monitors it offers a discount if you contact sales. At 300 monitors that is $300 a month before seats and alerts, which is more than TrackDowntime Enterprise costs for unlimited endpoints.
Is OneUptime cheaper than TrackDowntime?
For one person or a small estate, yes, clearly. Ten monitors cost about $14 a month on OneUptime against $99 here. For a three person team, our flat Enterprise price beats OneUptime Growth past roughly 220 monitors on monthly billing, or about 80 on yearly billing, and the gap widens with every seat and monitor you add.
How many people can get the phone call on TrackDowntime?
Every number added to an endpoint gets the call and the SMS, with no charge per person or per message. Numbers are entered comma separated, and different endpoints can call different people. Calls repeat at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes and on up to 96 hours until the site recovers.
Can I use OneUptime and TrackDowntime together?
Yes. Both check your URLs from outside, so running them side by side changes nothing on your servers. A common split is to keep OneUptime for status pages and logs and move the monitors that page people to TrackDowntime, which cuts both the active monitor count and the SMS and call usage on the OneUptime bill.
Does TrackDowntime have status pages like OneUptime?
No. TrackDowntime has no public status pages, no on-call rotations and no log or trace ingestion. It checks each endpoint, alerts by phone call, SMS, email, Slack and signed webhook until recovery, and keeps an incident history and uptime report you can print or export. If status pages matter, keep a tool for them.
Put uptime alerting on one fixed price
Add the URLs that page people, attach every number that should ring, and run OneUptime beside it for a week. The first endpoint takes about a minute.
Keep reading
Every plan, the usage charges and cost for teams of 1 to 5 people.
Downtime alerts by phone callHow the call, SMS and email escalate while a site stays down.
Better Stack alternativeFor teams paying a responder license for every phone that should ring.
Uptime reportUptime percentage, incidents and downtime minutes for any period, printable and CSV.
Website monitoring for agenciesClient sites, per client alert numbers and incident logs you can hand over.
Plans and pricingEndpoints, check intervals, alert channels and cost at your size.