Spectate vs UptimeRobot

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.

UptimeRobot monitors websites, servers and other services for availability, with Android and iOS mobile apps. Its Free plan costs nothing, billed monthly, and includes 50 monitors, five-minute checks and basic status pages. Listed monitor types include HTTP, port, ping, keyword, API, UDP, DNS, SSL and domain monitoring. Paid plans can check every minute; the Solo plan is listed at $9 a month when billed annually, with a 60-second interval and 10 monitors. Other plans list intervals as short as 15 seconds. Alert channels include email, SMS, voice calls, mobile push, collaboration services and webhooks. The service also offers branded status pages with incident and maintenance updates, and role-based access for teams. UptimeRobot lists integration with more than 20 services, while the free plan includes five integrations. Free registration does not require a credit card. Annual billing is stated to save about 15%, and new subscriptions and upgrades have a 14-day money-back guarantee. The company is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia.