Comparison
HyperMonitors vs Uptime Kuma Uptime Kuma is a genuinely great piece of software: MIT-licensed, actively maintained, 90k+ GitHub stars, and free for unlimited monitors. The structural catch is that it runs on one server you own. If that server, its network, or its datacenter goes down, your monitoring and your alerting go down together — and nothing tells you. This page is for people weighing that trade-off, not for people happy self-hosting.
Capability HyperMonitors Uptime Kuma
Entry paid price $5/mo (Solo) Free + your server and time Hosting Hosted — nothing for you to run Self-hosted on a server you own Multi-region checks Yes — cross-region confirmation – single location, your own host Maintenance you run yourself None — upgrades, backups and uptime are ours OS patches, upgrades, backups, DB migrations Monitor types HTTP/keyword, port, ping, DNS, SSL, heartbeat, domain-expiry HTTP/keyword, JSON query, TCP, ping, DNS, push, WebSocket, Docker Alert channels Email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhook, MS Teams, PagerDuty 90+ channels — but sent from your own infrastructure On-call scheduling Yes — rotations + escalation (Team plan) MCP server (AI agents) Yes — native Figures reflect each vendor's public pricing/feature pages as of August 2026; entry paid tier where plans vary. Found something out of date? Tell us .
Where Uptime Kuma is stronger
It's free with no monitor limit, and your data never leaves your infrastructure — which matters for some compliance postures. Crucially, it can reach things a hosted probe structurally cannot: internal services, LAN hosts, homelab gear, anything behind your firewall. It supports 90+ notification channels and 20-second intervals at no cost, and being MIT-licensed it can't be sunset out from under you — as Freshping's users found out. If you're comfortable running it and monitoring internal systems, it's a strong choice.
Pricing that stays out of your way Uptime Kuma's entry paid plan starts at free (self-hosted). Ours starts at $5/mo — and Free is free forever.
Monthly Annual (save up to 20%)
Free
/forever
For side projects and personal sites
Free forever
Solo
/month $5
For freelancers and solo builders
First month free
Most popular
Team
/month $25
For teams that ship to production
First month free
100 monitors 3 login seats · +$5/extra seat Enterprise
For fleets and infrastructure at scale · checks every 30s · 2 years of history · 5 seats included, +$25/5 extra seats
Need more than 1,000 monitors? Contact sales Every account starts on Free. Your first paid plan begins with a free month (30-day trial) — switch plans or cancel any time from the billing portal.