Comparison · checked September 2026

PylonMon vs UptimeRobot

Short answer: for “is my website up?”, both work and UptimeRobot’s free tier is larger (50 monitors at 5-minute checks, for hobby and non-profit use). For a business, the comparison is Pro vs Solo: PylonMon Pro at $9 gives 75 monitors at 30-second checks; UptimeRobot Solo at $13 gives 10 monitors at 60-second checks, 3 status pages and 3 login seats. The real difference is what happens beyond the website: PylonMon has an agent for servers and everything behind your firewall, browser journeys and log search. UptimeRobot answers with more status pages and more check locations. If you only need pings on public URLs, either is fine. If you also run machines, PylonMon covers them.

Side by side

	PylonMon	UptimeRobot
Free tier	20 monitors, 1-minute checks, 1 channel, 3 agent nodes, 1 journey; commercial use allowed	50 monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 status page, no login seats, 3-month logs; described as for hobby and non-profit projects
Entry paid plan	Pro $9/month: 75 monitors, 30-second checks, 10 channels, 1 status page, 10 SMS/month, 2 journeys, 1 seat	Solo $13/month ($12 annual): 10 monitors (50 with dependency monitoring, launching Sept 2026), 60-second checks, 3 status pages, 3 login seats, 10–20 SMS/voice credits, 12-month logs
Team plan	Team $49/month: 250 monitors, 30-second checks, 3 status pages, 5 members, on-call rotations, 20 SMS/month	Team $46/month ($39 annual): 100 monitors (120 with dependency monitoring), 30-second checks, 100 status pages, 3 login seats, 30 SMS/voice credits, 24-month logs
Larger	Enterprise from $129: 1,000 monitors, unlimited members, SSO, invoicing; +25 monitors $5 on Pro and Team	Scale $98/month ($79 annual): 200–500 monitors, 15-second checks, unlimited status pages, 5 login seats, 50–200 credits; Enterprise on quote
Check types	HTTP/S, keyword/body, TCP, ping, DNS, UDP (with real latency for known protocols), TLS chain + expiry, domain expiry, heartbeat, Prometheus	HTTP, keyword, port, ping, DNS, SSL, UDP, API, heartbeat
Servers and the LAN	Agent (open source): CPU, memory, disk, temperature, network; probes of internal targets; SNMP; log watch	No agent; heartbeat monitors only
Paging	Email, SMS (10/20/30 a month by plan), voice on paid plans, Discord, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, webhooks, ntfy, push; escalation ladders, on-call	Email, push, Slack, Discord, Teams, webhooks and more; SMS/voice credits included on paid plans (Solo 10–20, Team 30, Scale 50–200), purchasable on Free
Beyond up/down	Browser journeys (checkout, login) with step + screenshot; log search with incident correlation; exposure scan	Status pages, response-time graphs, maintenance windows
Where checks come from	Two US regions, second-region confirmation before paging, published IPs	Multiple locations worldwide, published IPs

Which one, honestly

PICK UPTIMEROBOT WHEN

You want the largest free tier for a personal project and 5-minute checks are fine.
You need many public status pages (their Team plan allows 100).
You want check locations outside the US.

PICK PYLONMON WHEN

You run servers, a NAS, a hypervisor or a school network and want them watched too — from inside and outside.
You want SMS or a phone call included, and 30-second checks at the $9 level.
You want to know a checkout or login still works, not just that the homepage returns 200.

Moving over

Add your public URLs as HTTP monitors (bulk edit exists), install the agent on the machines, and keep UptimeRobot running until you trust the alerts. Free covers 20 monitors and 3 nodes while you compare. Start free.

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UptimeRobot facts from their published pricing as summarised by independent pricing guides in August–September 2026; they set their own prices and may change them. Tell support@pylonmon.com if something here is out of date and we will fix it.