Checkly vs UptimeRobot

From $24 per month (Starter; Team is $64)

From €9 per month (Solo, billed annually; €10 monthly)

Priced by check runs; browser checks cost more than API checks, and frequency multiplies the bill. Team at $64 adds 75 monitors, 30-second frequency, all 22 locations and private locations.

One of the best free tiers in infrastructure tooling, and paid plans are still inexpensive: Solo €9, Team €35 and Scale €65 a month on annual billing. Solo buys the 60-second interval.

Hobby: 10 uptime monitors, 10k API and 1k browser check runs a month across 6 locations.

50 monitors at 5-minute intervals, free forever, with SSL and domain-expiry checks and one status page.

Widely used

Checkly · since 2018

Widely used

UptimeRobot · since 2010

• One Playwright script serves as both an E2E test and a production monitor.
• Monitoring-as-code fits GitOps workflows and code review.
• Excellent developer experience and clear, published pricing.

• Free tier covers what most small projects actually need.
• Five-minute setup with no configuration to learn.
• Status pages included even on lower tiers.

• Playwright-centric; teams on other frameworks get less benefit.
• Browser checks at high frequency across many locations get expensive.
• Not a full observability platform — no APM or log management.

• No browser-based transaction monitoring — availability only.
• Basic alerting logic; expect some noise from transient failures.
• Limited reporting and no observability integration.

Engineering teams already using Playwright who want production journeys monitored.

Side projects, small businesses and anyone who currently has no monitoring at all.