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RealUptime Status vs UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot's own help center describes its multi-location feature as rotational: each check runs from one selected region at a time, cycling through the regions assigned to a monitor, with no simultaneous multi-region reading for a single check. Region selection itself is gated to paid plans; Free accounts get one auto-assigned default region. RealUptime Status checks every monitor from all 10 of its named regions and shows all 10 readings together on the public page, on every tier including Free.

The short version

All 10 regions together on every tier vs rotational checks with regions behind a paywall.

UptimeRobot's own documentation states that a multi-location monitor is checked from one region at a time, cycling through whichever regions are assigned to it, with confirmation re-checks run in that same single region before a monitor is marked down. RealUptime Status checks all four of its named regions on every run and publishes all four readings side by side on the public page, so a visitor sees exactly which regions are affected rather than a single rotating state. That region access is included on our Free tier along with per-check region selection, while UptimeRobot restricts region choice to paid plans and limits Free accounts to one auto-assigned region. UptimeRobot remains ahead on raw Free-tier monitor count and ships its REST API on every plan including Free, where our API access is limited to Growth and Scale.

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Verified August 16, 2026. Sources: UptimeRobot Pricing, UptimeRobot Pricing (markdown), UptimeRobot Help Center: Understanding UptimeRobot Locations and Multi-Location Feature, UptimeRobot Location-Specific Monitoring, UptimeRobot Status Page product page.

Free tier monitors

Partial

Have

Free check interval

Have

1 minute

Partial

5 minutes

Multiple named regions shown together per check

Have

ten named regions checked and shown together by default, configurable down per monitor

Don’t have

rotates through selected regions, one per check, per their own help docs

Region count

Have

10 fixed regions (US-East, US-West, Europe, Asia-Pacific, US-Central, Canada, UK, Southeast Asia, Australia, and South America)

Have

4 regions (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia)

Region selection on free tier

Have

all 10 regions, per-check selection, included

Don’t have

auto-assigned default region only

Region selection on paid plans

Have

included at every tier, no separate gate

Have

Solo and up choose or combine regions with no further restriction

Public subscriber notifications

Have

every tier including Free

Don’t have

Team plan ($46/mo monthly, $39/mo annual) and up only

Webhook notifications

Have

every tier including Free

Don’t have

Team and Scale plans only

REST API access

Have

Growth and Scale tiers only

Have

included on every plan, including Free

Entry paid plan

Have

$28.99/mo Growth

Have

Solo, roughly $9 to $22/mo depending on billing cycle and monitor count

Custom domain for status page

Have

Growth and Scale, automatic TLS

Have

Solo plan and up

Team member access

Have

owner, admin and responder roles

Partial

notify seats a paid add-on on Solo, Team plan includes 3 login and 3 notify seats

Monitor types beyond HTTP(S)

Partial

TCP and TLS port checks, DNS record checks, and heartbeat/cron push monitoring, plus HTTP(S) endpoints

Have

port, ping, keyword, cron/heartbeat, and other protocol checks

Also deciding between UptimeRobot and Pingdom?

If UptimeRobot and Pingdom are the two you are actually choosing between, rather than UptimeRobot and RealUptime Status, see UptimeRobot vs Pingdom, compared directly: same sourced, dated format, with RealUptime Status mentioned as a third option rather than the subject of the page.

Looking for an UptimeRobot alternative?

For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.

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