Probecast vs UptimeRobot
The best-known uptime monitor, with a generous free tier and a simple promise: know when your site is down.
The short version
UptimeRobot answers "is it up?" — simply and cheaply. Probecast answers that and "what do I show the client?": monitors grouped per client, support and revenue beside uptime and a white-label monthly report. Solo site, pick them; client work, pick Probecast.
Probecast is monitoring plus monthly client reports for devs and agencies who ship projects for other people. It watches websites, APIs, cron jobs, TCP ports, browser flows and public MCP servers from 4 regions, groups everything by client and ends each month in a white-label report — with an API, a CLI and an MCP server so your coding agent can manage monitors too.
What each one does.
| Capability | UptimeRobot | Probecast |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime checks (HTTP, keyword, ping, port) | Yes — its core strength | Yes — plus browser flows and MCP server checks |
| Check interval | 5 min free; faster on paid plans | 10 min free; down to 1 min on Agency |
| Cron job (heartbeat) monitoring | Yes | Yes — with authenticated pings via API |
| Status pages | Yes, public | Yes — per client, your brand, optional password |
| Grouping by client | Tags and sub-accounts | First-class clients: team access, SLA and reports per client |
| Monthly client reports | Uptime summaries | White-label month-end report: uptime, incidents, traffic, revenue and support, in 6 languages |
| Third-party provider catalog | You add each check yourself | 1,000+ providers already checked — attach the ones each project depends on |
| Revenue and traffic beside uptime | No | Stripe, Shopify and WooCommerce read-only; first-party pixel |
| API, CLI and MCP for coding agents | API | REST API, CLI and an MCP server your agent can call |
Capabilities checked October 2026 · UptimeRobot details from public materials — tell us if something is out of date
UptimeRobot pricing
Free tier with a large monitor count at 5-minute intervals; paid plans add speed, locations and features. Pricing on uptimerobot.com.
Probecast pricing
Free (one project from the catalog) · Indie $9 · Startup $25 · Agency $150/mo for up to 15 clients, 40 days free.
When UptimeRobot is the better choice
- You watch your own personal projects and only need to know when something is down.
- You want the most monitors for the least money and will build reporting yourself.
- A public status page and an email alert cover your whole need.
When Probecast is the better choice
- You answer to clients and need to show them uptime, incidents and work delivered.
- You want one wallboard across every client instead of one long list of checks.
- The monthly report is part of your retainer and shouldn't be hand-made.
Can I run both?
Yes. Monitoring tools can overlap safely. Teams usually consolidate once the client layer — reports, per-client status pages and SLA — starts doing the work they were doing by hand.
How do I move my monitors over?
Create them in the dashboard or script it: the REST API and the CLI create monitors in bulk and an AI agent with our MCP server can do it from a list you paste.
Does Probecast have a free plan?
Yes — one project with up to 30 providers from the catalog, an alert and a status page. Your own custom monitors start on Indie at $9.
See it with your own projects.
Start free with one project — or add a monitor from the terminal with npx probecast.
UptimeRobot is a trademark of its owner. Probecast is not affiliated with and does not endorse or disparage UptimeRobot; this page reflects public information as of October 2026 and both products evolve. Found an error? Tell us at probecast.io/contact and we will fix it.