Spectate vs UptimeKit
Spectate
spectate.netUptimeKit
docs.uptimekit.devSide by side
| Figure | Spectate | UptimeKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 0 |
| Spec score · Uptime monitoring services | 8.5 (#12) | 7.3 (#36) |
| Spec score · Uptime Monitoring Software | 8.1 (#20) | 7.2 (#45) |
| Integrations | The maker names Slack, Discord, and Pushover as integrations, and says alerts can also be sent by voice or SMS. | Supported integrations include Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, ntfy, webhooks, and Prometheus AlertManager. |
| Intended users | The company says it aims to serve freelancers, SMBs, and enterprises; its homepage also calls out agencies, startups, SaaS companies, and indie hackers. | UptimeKit is presented for teams needing multi-region monitoring, multiple status pages, structured incident management, and time-series monitor history. |
| Product | Spectate is a monitoring and incident management platform for websites, APIs, servers, infrastructure, and applications. | UptimeKit is an open-source status-page and monitoring system for monitoring services, publishing status pages, and communicating incidents to users. |
| Status pages | Status pages support branding, custom domains, AI-powered updates, user issue reports, subscriptions, and postmortems. | Users can create public or private status pages with custom domains and password protection. |
Plans
Spectate
- Solo$12 a month
- Pro$24 a month
- Scale$72 a month
- Business$169 a month
- HobbyFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Spectate
Spectate monitors websites, APIs, servers, infrastructure, and applications, and provides tools for managing incidents. Website checks track uptime and performance, run globally, capture screenshots, and alert on SSL certificate expiry. A custom-built server agent is described as open source, dependency-free, and designed to add no server load. Incident features include merging incidents, collaboration, AI-assisted root cause analysis, postmortems, interactive alerts, and status page publishing. Status pages support branding, custom domains, user issue reports, subscriptions, and postmortems. Alerts can go through Slack, Discord, or Pushover, or be sent by voice or SMS. Spectate is available on Android, iOS, and web. The free Hobby tier allows five monitors or servers and one status page. Paid tiers list monitor or server limits from 15 to 250; Solo is $12.00 per month, billed $144 yearly. On-call scheduling and incident escalation policies are marked as coming soon.
UptimeKit
UptimeKit has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.