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How CheckHTTP compares
CheckHTTP checks every site from AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and puts real-user monitoring and visitor stats on the same plan. Here is how that compares with the uptime monitors people usually start with, backed by a month of our own outage data, including where the other tool is the better choice.
What CheckHTTP does differently
- Checked from three clouds
Runners on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure check your site independently, even on the free plan. Premium adds US East and Germany; Professional adds Ohio, Tokyo, Singapore and São Paulo.
- Uptime, RUM and visitor stats in one plan
One script adds real visitors, engagement, Core Web Vitals and JavaScript errors next to your checks, with bots filtered out. Full analytics open in StatsHarbor.
- Alerts confirmed by another cloud
Choose how many runners must agree before anyone hears about it, so one provider's bad day is not your outage. Email, Slack or any webhook, plus a message when it recovers.
Comparisons
- UptimeRobotUptimeRobot alternative: every-minute checks from three cloudsFifty free monitors, checked every five minutes from one region. What that misses, and what three clouds and real-user data add. · 7 min read
- PingdomPingdom alternative: uptime, real-user data and visitor stats on one billTwo separately metered products, a 30-day trial and no free plan. What a small site pays, and what one plan with three clouds and RUM looks like. · 7 min read
- Better StackBetter Stack alternative: multi-cloud checks without paying per personPer-responder pricing buys phone calls, schedules and escalations. Worth it if someone carries a pager; if not, here is what three clouds and RUM on one plan look like. · 6 min read
- StatusCakeStatusCake alternative: a second opinion from a different cloudSame-region confirmation servers against confirmation from another cloud, with our count of how often a failed check is a false alarm. · 7 min read
Where the checks run
The tools compared here describe their checkers by location: four regions at UptimeRobot, 100+ probe servers at Pingdom, four or more locations per monitor at Better Stack, a city's worth of servers per region at StatusCake. None of the pages we read says which cloud or network those checkers run on. CheckHTTP is organised by provider: the same check runs on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, so a failure on one cloud can be told apart from a failure of your site.
aws/us-west-1 and gcp/us-west-1.What we measured
Free plans differ most in how often they check: every 5 minutes at UptimeRobot and StatusCake, every 3 at Better Stack, every minute at CheckHTTP. To see what that means in practice, we took 4.5 million of our own checks over the 30 days to October 17, 2026 and measured how long real outages lasted.
What CheckHTTP is, and isn't
Built for
- Checks from AWS, Google Cloud and Azure on every plan, with alerts that wait for the clouds to agree
- Uptime, real-user monitoring and visitor stats on one plan: visitors, engagement, Core Web Vitals, JS errors, bots filtered
- Checks every 60 seconds on every plan, including one site free
- DNS, connect, TLS and first-byte timing, plus certificate expiry, on every check
- Scripted JavaScript checks for APIs, keywords and logins, with encrypted secrets
- Alerts by email, Slack or webhook, naming the runners that saw the failure, with a recovery message
- Shareable status pages and an MCP server for AI assistants
Not (yet)
- Checks from dozens of countries: seven locations on the widest plan
- SMS, phone calls, on-call schedules or escalations
- Real-browser transaction checks
- Ping, port, DNS, domain-expiry or server monitors
- Hundreds of monitors on a budget
Try it on the page that matters most. One site, checked every minute, free.
Start monitoring freeCompetitor details from each vendor's pricing and documentation pages, checked October 18, 2026. Runner locations and plans from CheckHTTP's runner configuration. Outage figures: two or more consecutive failed 60-second checks from the same runner, leaving out four monitors that fail constantly because the sites block automated requests. Illustrations by Streamline (CC BY 4.0).