PingXen vs UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot checks more URLs. PingXen watches more of the stack.
UptimeRobot has the most generous free tier in this category and faster intervals than we offer. What it has never done, at any price, is tell you the CPU and disk state of the machine behind the URL.
Side by side
| PingXen | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, all check types included | Yes, 50 monitors, personal use, no API checks |
| Free check interval | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Fastest paid interval | 1 minute | 15 seconds on Scale, 60 seconds on Solo |
| Entry paid price | See pricing | Solo, about $9 a month |
| HTTP, keyword and port checks | Yes | Yes, plus ping and UDP |
| SSL, domain expiry and DNS | Yes | Yes |
| Server CPU, memory, disk and load | Agent on every plan | Not offered |
| Cause attributed across check types | Correlates the outage with SSL, domain and server state | Dependency monitoring on paid plans |
| Alert destinations | Email, Discord, Telegram, mobile push | Email, SMS and voice on credits, plus integrations on paid |
| Monitoring locations | Single region, retried before alerting | Four regions on paid plans |
UptimeRobot figures from their pricing page, checked 22 September 2026.
Stay on UptimeRobot if
- Fifty HTTP checks on a free plan is the whole requirement
- You need intervals under a minute
- Checking from four regions matters to you
- It already works and nothing is going wrong
Move to PingXen if
- You also want CPU, memory and disk from the same account
- You are paying for a second tool to watch servers
- You want the outage tied to the certificate or host that caused it
- Discord or Telegram is where your team actually reads alerts
Run both for a fortnight
Point PingXen at the same URLs and compare what the two alerts tell you next time something breaks.