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Updown.io

paid From $1/mo · Founded 2014 · cloud

Pay-per-check uptime — load €5 credit, get ~50000 checks. Solo-founder favorite.

What it does well

  • Pay-per-request pricing model avoids fixed monthly subscription costs.
  • Dual-stack monitoring checks both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for each site.
  • Clean, minimalist interface without complex dashboards or feature bloat.
  • Provides public, embeddable status pages for transparency with users.

Where it falls short

  • No free tier is available; you must purchase credits to use the service.
  • Lacks advanced features like transaction monitoring or real user monitoring (RUM).
  • Alerting options are basic and lack complex on-call scheduling or escalation policies.
  • Does not offer application performance monitoring (APM) for code-level diagnostics.
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