For teams that ran out of Uptime.com texts mid-outage
Uptime.com Alternative: Uptime.com Alternatives for Uptime Monitoring With Unmetered Phone Call Alerts
Uptime.com gives every tier a monthly allowance of SMS and phone call alerts, and each down and each recovery message to each number counts against it. Three phones and one long night can use the month. TrackDowntime calls and texts every number on an endpoint, repeats until the site recovers, and never counts a message.
Professional is $99 a month for 25 endpoints with calls and SMS to several numbers. Enterprise is $299 for unlimited endpoints. Alerts are never metered.
Add an endpoint
- Alert channels
- Phone call, SMS, email
- Monthly alert cap
- None on any plan
- Call repeats
- 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 min, then up to 96 h
- Past 250 endpoints
- Flat $299, or $149 yearly
Paste the URL, create your account, and the first check runs right away.
Which Uptime.com alternative fits a team that needs calls to keep coming
If Uptime.com checks your sites well but the alert allowance is what runs out, pick a monitor where calls and texts are not counted. Uptime.com's 25 check tier includes 50 SMS and call alerts a month, and every down and up message to every number uses one. TrackDowntime calls, texts and emails every number on an endpoint, repeats until recovery, and costs $99 for 25 endpoints or $299 for unlimited, with no cap.
50
SMS and call alerts a month on Uptime.com's 25 check tier, shared by every phone
0
Alerts counted or capped on TrackDowntime, on any plan
$299
Flat monthly price for unlimited endpoints, against $562 for 750 checks on Uptime.com
What changes when you move uptime alerting off Uptime.com
Uptime.com is a capable, well priced monitor. It checks from several locations, keeps 24 months of history and has far more check types than we do. People who move their alerting away from it usually give one of two reasons: the text allowance ran out during an outage, or the estate grew past a few hundred checks and the bill kept climbing with it.
No allowance to run out
Calls and texts are never counted, capped or billed per message. A night with twelve rounds of alerts to three phones costs the same as a quiet month, and nobody has to buy the next tier to get their texts back.
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 while the endpoint stays down. Recovery goes out by SMS and email.
Every number on the endpoint rings
Enter the phone numbers that should hear about an endpoint, separated by commas. Each one gets the call and the SMS. Different endpoints can call different people, which is how agencies route client sites.
One price past 250 endpoints
Enterprise covers unlimited endpoints for $299 a month, or $149 billed yearly. Adding a client, a region or a customer instance never moves you up a tier.
An outage record you can hand over
Every incident is stored with its start, end and measured duration: 30 days on Starter, 90 on Professional, no limit on Enterprise. Export it to CSV when a client asks what happened last quarter.
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 alerting from Uptime.com in an afternoon
Step 1
Find the checks that wake people
Open your Uptime.com contacts and list the checks attached to the ones with phone numbers. Those are the checks spending the allowance: 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. It takes about a minute per endpoint, and nothing is installed on your servers.
Step 3
Run both for a week
Leave Uptime.com checking the same URLs. Compare what each one caught and how the alerts reached people. Both check from outside, so running them side by side changes nothing.
Step 4
Drop to a smaller Uptime.com tier or stop
Keep Uptime.com for transaction checks, status pages or multi location coverage if you use them, on a lower tier now that it no longer carries the phones. Uptime.com lists a 30 day guarantee on paid plans.
How does the Uptime.com SMS limit work?
Uptime.com's help center says every account gets a set number of SMS and phone call alerts per month, based on the subscription tier and reset on the 1st. Each message counts: the DOWN alert, the UP notification when the check recovers, and each phone number on the contact. The entry tier at $9 a month includes 25, the 25 check tier at $19 includes 50, and 100 checks at $75 include 100.
Do the arithmetic for a small team. Three phones on a contact use six messages per outage, one down and one up each. On the 50 alert tier, that is about eight outages before the month is gone, and escalations draw from the same pool. There is no separate SMS pack: the pricing FAQ says to select the next tier. The full tier ladder is in our Uptime.com pricing and SMS limits breakdown.
When Uptime.com is the better choice
For a lot of teams it is, and we would rather say so. Under about 400 checks on monthly billing, or about 250 on annual, Uptime.com costs less than we do, often a lot less. Its entry tier checks every minute where our Starter checks every 5 minutes. It keeps 24 months of history, checks each URL from 3 of 12 locations, and sells transaction checks, API checks, page speed, heartbeats and status pages. We sell none of those.
If one person gets the alerts, outages are rare, and you want the most check types for the money, stay on Uptime.com. The case for moving is when several people need calls that keep coming, or when you run hundreds of endpoints and want a price that stops growing.
What Uptime.com costs at 25, 100 and 650 endpoints
Uptime.com prices by check count. From its pricing calculator, read in September 2026: 25 checks are $19 a month ($15 annually), 100 are $75 ($60), 300 are $225 ($180), and 650 endpoints need the 750 check tier at $562 a month ($450 annually). The price per check stays close to $0.75 from 100 checks upward, so there is no volume break waiting at the top.
TrackDowntime is $99 for 25 endpoints and $299 for unlimited. That makes us more expensive at 25 and 100 endpoints, even after counting alerts, and cheaper from roughly 400 endpoints on monthly billing. At 650 endpoints the difference is $263 a month, or $301 a month on annual billing, and it grows with every check you add.
What you give up by moving, stated plainly
TrackDowntime runs an external HTTP check every 60 seconds from a single location. We have no multi location checks, no transaction or API assertion checks, no keyword or content matching, no heartbeats, no status pages and no Slack or webhook alerts. Our alerts are phone call, SMS and email. Uptime.com has all of those, plus unlimited users and 24 months of history on every tier.
What we do is narrow on purpose: check each endpoint, call everyone who should know, keep calling until it recovers, and keep an outage record with start, end and duration for each incident. If that is the part of Uptime.com your team leans on at 3 a.m., you can move it and keep the rest where it is.
Who moves alerting from Uptime.com to TrackDowntime
Teams with three or more phones on a contact
Every phone doubles the messages each outage uses. When the founder, the developer and the ops lead all want the call, an allowance plan runs out fastest.
Agencies with client phones on alerts
Client sites each get their own endpoint and their own numbers, including the client's. Hundreds of client sites fit on Enterprise at one price, without a monthly text budget to police.
Stores that cannot miss a night of orders
Checkout and product pages checked every 60 seconds, with every phone called until the store is back. See the setup on our ecommerce uptime monitoring page.
SaaS teams running per customer instances
Each customer instance is another check on Uptime.com. On Enterprise it is another endpoint at no extra cost, with unlimited history for SLA reports.
Estates past 400 endpoints
At 650 endpoints Uptime.com's 750 check tier is $562 a month. Enterprise is $299, or $149 billed yearly, for unlimited endpoints and unlimited history.
People who only needed the pager part
If transaction checks, status pages and extra locations sit unused, you are buying breadth for an HTTP check and a phone that rings. Move that part and scale the rest down.
Uptime.com compared with TrackDowntime
Uptime.com figures come from the calculator on uptime.com/pricing and its help center article on how call and SMS alerts are counted, checked in September 2026. Rows where Uptime.com is stronger stay in, because they are the reasons to keep it.
| Uptime.com | TrackDowntime | |
|---|---|---|
| How it is priced | Per check, tiers from 10 to 30,000 | Per endpoint, flat plans |
| Entry price | $9 a month for 10 checks ($7 annually) | $29 a month for 5 endpoints ($14 annually) |
| SMS and call alerts | Monthly allowance, 25 to 2,000 by tier | Not counted or capped |
| What uses an alert | Every down and up message, per number | Nothing, alerts are not metered |
| Alerts repeat while down | Via escalations, from the same allowance | 0 to 60 min, then up to 96 h |
| Cost for 25 endpoints | $19 monthly, $15 annually | $99 monthly, $49 annually |
| Cost for 650 endpoints | $562 monthly, $450 annually | $299 monthly, $149 annually |
| Fastest check interval | 1 minute on every tier | 60 seconds on Professional and Enterprise |
| Check locations | 3 of 12 per check, more as an add-on | Single location |
| Transaction, API, heartbeat checks | Yes | No |
| Status pages | Add-on, from $13 a month | No |
| History retention | 24 months | 30, 90 or unlimited days, CSV export |
Uptime.com also sells real user monitoring and extra probe locations as add-ons. Check both vendors' current pricing before you buy, since plans change.
Questions people ask before replacing Uptime.com
What is the best alternative to Uptime.com?
It depends on what you need that Uptime.com does not give you. For calls and texts that are never capped, repeating to several people until recovery, TrackDowntime fits. For on-call rotations and escalation tiers, PagerDuty or Better Stack fit better. For the lowest price on a small number of checks, Uptime.com itself is hard to beat.
Does Uptime.com limit SMS alerts?
Yes. Each Uptime.com tier includes a monthly allowance of SMS and phone call alerts, from 25 on the $9 tier to 2,000 on the largest, reset on the 1st of each month. Each down and up message to each number counts. To get more, you move to a higher tier. Our Uptime.com pricing breakdown lists every tier.
How much does Uptime.com cost?
Uptime.com starts at $9 a month for 10 basic checks, 1 advanced check and 25 SMS alerts, or $84 a year. Tiers step up by check count: $19 for 25 checks, $75 for 100, $375 for 500 and $750 for 1,000. Status pages, extra locations and real user monitoring are extra. Paid plans carry a 30 day guarantee.
Is Uptime.com cheaper than TrackDowntime?
Below about 400 endpoints on monthly billing, yes, and by a wide margin at 25 or 100 checks. Above that, TrackDowntime Enterprise at $299 a month for unlimited endpoints is cheaper, and at 650 endpoints it saves $263 a month. The other difference is alerts: ours are never capped, theirs come from a monthly allowance.
How many people can get the phone call on TrackDowntime?
Every number added to an endpoint gets the call and the SMS, with no limit per endpoint and no charge per person or per message. Numbers are entered comma separated. Calls repeat at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes and on up to 96 hours until the site recovers, and recovery is sent by SMS and email.
Can I use Uptime.com and TrackDowntime together?
Yes. Both check your URLs from outside, so running them side by side changes nothing on your servers. A common setup keeps Uptime.com for transaction checks, status pages or multi location coverage on a smaller tier, and moves the checks that must wake several people to TrackDowntime, where alerts do not draw down an allowance.
Does TrackDowntime check from multiple locations like Uptime.com?
No. TrackDowntime checks from a single location and confirms timeouts with rechecks before alerting: two rechecks 5 seconds apart for a timeout, three 10 seconds apart for a DNS timeout. Uptime.com checks each URL from 3 locations out of 12. If geographic confirmation matters to you, keep Uptime.com for it.
How fast can I switch from Uptime.com?
An afternoon for most teams. Adding an endpoint with its expected status code, timeout and phone numbers takes about a minute, and nothing is installed on your servers. Run both tools for a week, compare what each caught, then reduce your Uptime.com tier to the checks you still need there.
Stop rationing texts during outages
Add the URLs that wake people up, attach every number that should ring, and keep Uptime.com running beside it for a week. The first endpoint takes about a minute.
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