Checkmate vs Uptrends
Checkmate
checkmate.so
Uptrends
uptrends.comSide by side
| Figure | Checkmate | Uptrends |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $42/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Uptime Monitoring Software | 8.4 (#10) | 8.2 (#18) |
| Spec score · Uptime monitoring services | 8.5 (#11) | 8.9 (#8) |
| Audience | The maker names homelabs, SaaS founders, agencies, sysadmins and DevOps, e-commerce, and open-source maintainers as users. | The plans describe Core for teams needing regional availability and performance monitoring, Pro for SRE and Ops teams, and Enterprise for organization-wide monitoring standardization. |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Integrations | Alert channels include email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Twilio SMS, Pushover, ntfy, Matrix, Rocket.Chat, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks. | Predefined integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, StatusHub, Splunk On-Call, ServiceNow, Opsgenie, StatusPage, Zapier, AlertOps, and Grafana. |
| Product | Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring dashboard for uptime, PageSpeed, hardware, Docker, and incident alerts. | Uptrends monitors websites, web applications, APIs, and servers for availability and performance. |
| Support | The maker identifies Discord as the fastest help channel and GitHub issues for bugs and feature requests, and says there is no paid support tier. | Core includes ticket support, Pro adds live chat, and Enterprise includes priority support and onboarding services. |
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In their own words
Checkmate
Checkmate is a free, open-source, self-hosted dashboard for monitoring infrastructure, service uptime, PageSpeed, and incidents. It checks HTTP, ping, TCP, gRPC, WebSocket, DNS, SSL, and more than 100 game server types. Its Capture agent reports server CPU, memory, disk, temperature, and network metrics, while PageSpeed monitoring tracks Lighthouse scores and Core Web Vitals over time. Public status dashboards can show per-service uptime and incident history with custom branding. Alerts can go to email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Twilio SMS, Pushover, ntfy, Matrix, Rocket.Chat, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks. The maker says metrics, logs, incidents, and user accounts remain in the database configured by the operator, with no phone-home or telemetry pipeline. Checkmate is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and can be installed with Docker Compose or Kubernetes/Helm; its image runs on x86, Apple Silicon, and Raspberry Pi. The maker says the API accepts JSON for bulk monitor setup and provides a REST API reference. The free plan includes all features, no monitor limits, self-hosting, and 12 alert channels. There is no one-click migration import or paid support tier.
Uptrends
Uptrends monitors websites, web applications, APIs and servers for availability and performance. Synthetic checks run from more than 230 ISP-based locations, with private locations also available. Monitor types include uptime, browser, transaction and API checks; customers allocate monitoring credits across types, and credits do not expire during the annual term. The service supports HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Ping, DNS, FTP, Connect, SQL and MySQL. It can automate multi-step checks for identity-driven journeys using SSO or MFA. Alerts can go through email, SMS/text, phone/voice, mobile push, messaging and incident platforms, webhooks or the API. iOS and Android apps show monitoring data and can send push notifications. Core costs $42 a month with annual billing and includes 10 users, US and EU checkpoint regions, uptime checks every two minutes, browser checks every 15 minutes, ticket support and 180 days of data retention. Pro costs $60 a month with annual billing. There is no free plan, but a 30-day trial is available.