PageHum vs UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot suits
Anyone who needs many monitors, fast checks, and SMS or voice alerts, without analytics.
PageHum suits
A small site’s owner who wants traffic, speed, errors, broken links, uptime, and a status page from one script, and the one problem worth fixing named each week.
| Compared | PageHum | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 2 sites, 40,000 pageviews a month, the board, a status page, and the badge. source | 50 monitors every 5 minutes, 1 basic status page, 3 months of history. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter $9/mo ($90/yr): 5 sites, 100,000 pageviews, 90 days. source | Solo $13/mo ($12/mo yearly): 10 monitors every 60 seconds, 3 status pages on your domain. source (opens in a new tab) |
| What it covers | Privacy analytics, real-visitor speed (load, LCP, INP, CLS), JavaScript error counts, broken links, uptime, page checks, browser flows, and a status page, from one script. source | Monitoring: HTTP, keyword, ping, port, DNS, SSL and domain expiry, heartbeats, status pages. No analytics or error tracking. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Cookies and identifiers | No cookies and no identifiers; counts only. The script is about 5 KB gzipped. source | No visitor script, so nothing on your pages. |
| Uptime checks | Homepage every 5 minutes from 1 region on Free, 3 on Starter, 4 on Pro and Ultra; extra pages every 30 to 5 minutes. source | Every 60 s on Solo (30 and 15 s higher up), from up to 4 regions on paid plans. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Status page | On every plan, with incidents and maintenance; your own domain from Starter. source | 1 basic page free; 3 on your own domain on Solo; 100 white-label on Team. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Alerts | Push on Free; email, Slack, Discord, Teams, and signed webhooks on paid plans. No SMS or phone calls yet. source | Email, SMS and voice (credits), mobile app; Slack, Teams, Telegram on Solo; webhooks on Team. source (opens in a new tab) |
| API and MCP | REST API and an MCP server on every plan (60 calls an hour on Free). source | REST API on every plan; an official MCP server. source (opens in a new tab) |
| History kept | 40 days on Free, 90 days on Starter, 13 months on Pro and Ultra. source | 3 months free, 12 months on Solo. source (opens in a new tab) |
Where UptimeRobot is better
- 50 free monitors, and checks every 60, 30, or 15 seconds.
- SMS and voice alerts, and a mobile app.
- Many monitor types (ports, DNS, heartbeats, keywords) and a long track record.
Where PageHum is better
- It hears your visitors too: traffic, speed, errors, and broken links, not just whether the homepage answers.
- Webhooks and Slack from Starter at $9.
- One board with the one problem worth fixing, and an AI prompt to fix it.
What PageHum doesn’t do
- No session replay or heatmaps.
- Counts only: no per-visitor paths, user profiles, or cohorts.
- One funnel per site, not many.
- No stack traces: error messages, pages, browsers, and counts.
- Homepage checks every 5 minutes, and no SMS or phone alerts yet.
- Young: launched in 2026, so a short track record and short histories.
Switching
Point PageHum at the same homepage and add your key pages as page checks. Keep UptimeRobot for anything that isn't a website, like ports or cron jobs.
UptimeRobot is a trademark of its owner; PageHum isn’t affiliated with it. Facts were checked October 13, 2026 and will be checked again by January 13, 2027. Something wrong or out of date? Write to hello@pagehum.com.