Uptrends Alts: Enterprise Without Price

Uptrends expensive. Free matches for most.

Why Alt

• $100-500/mo high
• Enterprise overkill
• Budget tight
• Test first
• Not all features needed

Uptrends Summary

Global net, analytics, custom dash, API, SLAs, security.

Pricing: $100-500/mo.

Top Free

1. exit1.dev

• Unlimited
• 1-min
• No card
• SSL
• Webhooks
• API
• Terminal UI

For: Pro without enterprise cost.

2. UptimeRobot

• 50 sites
• 5-min
• SSL
• Headers
• API limited

For: Multi-sites basic.

3. StatusCake

• 10 sites
• 5-min
• SSL
• Speed basic
• Email/webhook
• Team limited

For: Small teams basic.

4. Freshping

• 50 sites
• 1-min
• SSL
• Email/webhook
• Clean UI

For: Simple reliable.

Compare

Free:

Feature	Uptrends	exit1.dev	UptimeRobot	StatusCake	Freshping
Sites	1 (trial)	Unlimited	50	10	50
Interval	1 min	1 min	5 min	5 min	1 min
SSL	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
API	Full	Full	Limited	Limited	❌
Webhooks	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Email	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Locations	200+	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Card	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Cost	$100+/mo	Free	Free	Free	Free

Enterprise:

Feature	Uptrends Enterprise	Free Alts
Global	200+	Limited
Analytics	Comprehensive	Basic
Dashboards	White-label	Standard
SLAs	✅	❌
Support	Priority	Community
Security	✅	Basic
API	Full	Limited/Full
Cost	$100-500/mo	$0/mo

Saver Calc

$1200/year saved.

When Uptrends

• Global essential
• Enterprise features
• SLAs needed
• White-label important
• Budget ok

Switch Guide

1. Export Uptrends

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer KEY" \
     "https://api.uptrends.com/v3/checks"

2. Pick alt

3. Import to exit1.dev

const sites = [
  'https://site1.com',
  'https://site2.com'
];

sites.forEach(async (url) => {
  await fetch('https://api.exit1.dev/websites', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Authorization': 'Bearer KEY'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      url,
      name: url.replace('https://', ''),
      checkInterval: 60
    })
  });
});

4. Alerts

const mapping = {
  'uptrends': 'https://api.uptrends.com/v3/checks/alerts',
  'exit1': 'https://api.exit1.dev/webhooks/downtime'
};

const newUrl = mapping.exit1;

Alts for Specific

Global (Uptrends strength): Free: UptimeRobot multi (limited), StatusCake basic, Freshping limited. Paid: Pingdom global, StatusCake Pro enhanced.

Perf: Free: PageSpeed, GTmetrix, WebPageTest. Paid: WebPageTest Pro $49, GTmetrix Pro $15.

Uptime:

1. exit1.dev: Unlimited 1-min
2. UptimeRobot: 50 5-min
3. Freshping: 50 1-min

When Free/Stay

Free: Budget $0-100, basic, multi-sites, testing, global not critical.

Uptrends: Global essential, enterprise, SLAs, white-label, budget ok.

Reviews

Uptrends: "Great global" positive, "Expensive small" negative.

Alts: "Unlimited incredible" (exit1), "50 perfect" (UptimeRobot), "Good free team" (StatusCake), "Simple reliable" (Freshping).

Strategy

Phase 1: Free, basic, webhooks, test, doc.

Phase 2: Assess local, use free global, determine global need, compare costs.

Phase 3: Add sites, advanced alerting, paid if needed, doc procedures.

Decide

Questions:

1. Global? Yes Uptrends/Pingdom, no free.
2. Sites? 1-50 free, 50+ exit1.
3. Budget? $0-100 free, $100+ Uptrends.
4. Enterprise? Yes Uptrends, no free.
5. SLA? Yes paid, no free.

Conclusion

Free matches for most.

Most: exit1.dev best alt, unlimited 1-min pro free.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Synthetic monitoring — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_monitoring
• AWS Well-Architected: Reliability Pillar — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/welcome.html

Global: UptimeRobot/StatusCake basic, Pingdom comprehensive.

Enterprise: Uptrends.

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