20 monitors
Monitor up to 20 endpoints: websites, APIs, servers, or any URL you need to keep an eye on. Most small teams and side projects fit well within this limit.
1 status page
Create a public status page to show your users that your services are up. Custom subdomain included. Automatically reflects the state of your monitors.
5-minute check intervals
Every 5 minutes, Hyperping checks each of your monitors from multiple global locations. If something goes down, you will know within minutes, not hours.
HTTP, port, ping, and keyword checks
Check HTTP status codes, verify open ports, send ICMP pings, or search for specific keywords on a page. The free plan covers the monitoring types most teams need.
Email alerts
Get notified by email when a monitor goes down or comes back up. Alerts include response time, status code, and the location that detected the issue.
DNS monitoring
Verify that your DNS records resolve correctly. Catch DNS propagation issues, hijacking attempts, or misconfigured records before they affect your users.
| Hyperping Free | UptimeRobot Free | Better Stack Free | Pulsetic Free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monitors | 20 | 50 | 10 | 10 |
| Check interval | 5 min | 5 min | 3 min | 3 min |
| Status page | 1 included | 1 included | 1 included | 1 included |
| Check types | HTTP, DNS, ping, keyword, port | HTTP, ping, port, keyword | HTTP, ping | HTTP |
| Alerts | ||||
| Check locations | 18 regions | 12 regions | Limited | Limited |
Create your free account
Sign up with your email. No credit card required, no time-limited trial. Your free plan starts immediately.
Add your first monitor
Enter a URL and pick a check type: HTTP, DNS, ping, port, or keyword. Hyperping starts checking every 5 minutes from 18 global locations.
Configure alerts
Set up email notifications so you know the moment something goes down. Paid plans add Slack, SMS, phone calls, and PagerDuty.
Publish a status page
Create a public status page in seconds. Connect your monitors, pick a subdomain, and share the link with your users or team.
Why free uptime monitoring matters
Downtime costs money. For an e-commerce site doing $10,000 a day in revenue, every hour of undetected downtime is $416 lost. For a SaaS product, downtime erodes trust with paying customers. Even a personal blog or portfolio site looks unprofessional if visitors land on an error page.
The problem is that most teams do not know their site is down until a customer complains. By that point, the damage is done. A monitoring tool checks your site automatically and alerts you the moment something breaks, so you can fix it before users are affected.
Free uptime monitoring removes the cost barrier. You should not have to pay $30 or $50 a month to know whether your website is online. For side projects, early-stage startups, and personal sites, a free plan with 20 monitors and 5-minute checks is more than enough.
What to look for in a free monitoring tool
Not all free plans are the same. Some limit you to 5 monitors. Others only check every 15 minutes. A few require a credit card to sign up, which defeats the purpose of "free."
The things that actually matter for a free monitoring tool: enough monitors to cover your key endpoints (Hyperping gives you 20), a reasonable check frequency (5 minutes is standard), multiple check types (HTTP at minimum, plus DNS and ping if possible), and an included status page so your users can check service health on their own.
Alerts matter too. If your monitoring tool detects downtime but does not notify you, what is the point? Email alerts are the baseline. Paid plans typically add Slack, SMS, phone calls, and integrations with incident management tools like PagerDuty.
Free vs. paid: when 5-minute checks are enough
The biggest difference between free and paid monitoring is check frequency. On Hyperping's free plan, your sites are checked every 5 minutes. On paid plans, checks run as often as every 30 seconds.
For most personal projects and early-stage products, 5-minute checks are fine. If your site goes down at 2:14 PM, you will know by 2:19 PM. For a production SaaS product serving thousands of users, that 5-minute gap could mean hundreds of failed requests. That is when 30-second checks become worth paying for.
We built the free plan so that you can start monitoring today without worrying about billing. When your project grows and you need faster checks, more monitors, or on-call scheduling, the upgrade path is straightforward. You can view the full breakdown on our pricing page.
30-second check intervals
The free plan checks every 5 minutes. Paid plans check as often as every 30 seconds, so you catch downtime before most users notice.
More monitors
Paid plans support up to 1,000+ monitors. If you are running a larger infrastructure or managing multiple client sites, you will need more than 20.
On-call and escalation policies
Route alerts to the right person at the right time. Set up on-call rotations, escalation chains, and make sure critical issues never go unnoticed overnight.
Browser checks with Playwright
Go beyond simple HTTP checks. Run full browser tests that click through login flows, shopping carts, or dashboards. Know when a user-facing workflow breaks.
Slack, SMS, and phone call alerts
The free plan sends email alerts. Paid plans add Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, phone calls, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Discord, webhooks, and more.
Team members and permissions
Invite your team. Control who can edit monitors, manage incidents, or view dashboards. Paid plans support multiple users with role-based access.