Comparison
UptimeRobot is the cheapest way to learn that a page stopped responding. This page is about what happens when that is not the whole job.
Researched and verified on 2026-08-15. We recheck competitor pricing quarterly.
You need to know that checkout still works, not just that the homepage returns HTTP 200. Playwright browser tests, visual regression, real user monitoring, Lighthouse and security header scans all sit inside one plan, and the WordPress, PrestaShop and Magento plugins create the monitor straight from the shop admin. Invoicing is in PLN from a Polish entity, and the interface is in Polish.
You watch a lot of small sites and mainly need to know whether they respond. The free plan covers 50 monitors, paid plans go down to a 15 second interval, and it probes from Asia and Australia, which PingView does not do at all. It also offers more native monitor types, including DNS records.
| Feature | PingView | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Native monitor typesPingView: HTTP, TCP, ICMP ping, heartbeat. SSL and domain expiry are attributes of an HTTP monitor, not separate types. | 4 | 8+ |
| Fastest check intervalPingView needs Professional for 1 minute; UptimeRobot reaches 15 seconds on its Scale plan. | 1 min | 15 s |
| Monitoring locationsPingView probes from Wrocław, Berlin, Worcester, Newark and Milan. No coverage in Asia, Oceania, South America or Africa. | 5 | 4 macro-regions |
| Free plan monitors | 10 | 50 |
| Browser tests with PlaywrightNot found in the UptimeRobot product offering. | Available | Not available |
| Visual regression testing | Available | Not available |
| Real User MonitoringPingView keeps raw RUM events for 7 days on every plan. | Available | Not available |
| Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse | Available | Not available |
| Security header scanningPingView scores headers with the MDN HTTP Observatory engine. | Available | Not available |
| DNS record monitoring | Not available | Available |
| Status page on your own domainPingView from Professional; UptimeRobot from its Solo plan. | Available | Available |
| E-commerce plugins (WordPress, PrestaShop, Magento) | Available | Not available |
| Alert channelsUptimeRobot adds voice calls, mobile push, PagerDuty and Zapier, none of which PingView has. | 6 | 16+ |
| On-call schedules and escalationNeither ships full on-call rotations. UptimeRobot offers tiered alerting plus PagerDuty integration. | Not available | Partially available |
| Polish interface | Available | Not available |
| Pricing in PLNUptimeRobot prices in EUR. | Available | Not available |
Competitor data collected on 2026-08-15 from public pricing and documentation pages. Vendors change plans without notice, so verify current terms before you decide.
A store can answer HTTP 200 with a checkout that throws on the payment step. PingView runs real Chromium sessions through Playwright scenarios, keeps a screenshot and console output from the failing step, and compares rendering against an approved baseline. We did not find browser based synthetic testing, visual regression or real user monitoring in the UptimeRobot offering.
The WordPress plugin, published on wordpress.org, plus the PrestaShop and Magento 2 modules create an account and a monitor from an email address, then show current status and recent incidents inside the shop admin. Checks still run outside the shop, so an alert does not depend on the monitored site being alive. No comparable e-commerce integration was found for UptimeRobot.
Polish interface, prices in PLN, a Polish legal entity for RODO and DPA, and a Polish SMS provider for alerts to Polish numbers. UptimeRobot is based in Istanbul, prices in EUR, and its status pages support 11 languages, Polish not among them.
Lighthouse audits, Core Web Vitals, MDN HTTP Observatory security scoring and TLS analysis run on a schedule inside the Professional plan and export as branded PDF reports, which is the artefact an agency attaches to a monthly retainer review.
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UptimeRobot probes from four macro-regions including Asia and Australia. PingView has five fixed probes, all in Europe and the United States. If your customers are in Singapore or Sydney, we cannot tell you what your site looks like from there, and that is a real gap, not a nuance.
UptimeRobot offers native DNS record monitoring and page change detection. PingView has four real monitor types and no DNS record monitoring at all.
50 free monitors against our 10. If you need to keep an eye on many low stakes sites at zero cost, that difference is decisive and no feature list changes it.
Voice calls, mobile push, native PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call and Zapier. PingView has email, SMS, webhook, Slack, Discord and Microsoft Teams, and no on-call scheduling or escalation policies at all.
Their Scale plan sits close to our Professional plan in price and keeps data for 24 months against our 12.
UptimeRobot reports over 3.4 million users and carries hundreds of public reviews on G2, Capterra and Trustpilot. We are a much younger product with nothing like that volume of public feedback.
You need basic availability checks, you want to probe from Asia or Australia, you have many low stakes sites to watch on the free plan, and you do not need browser based tests, RUM, shop plugins or a PLN invoice. It will be cheaper and it will be enough.
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$74.99/mo
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We did not find browser based synthetic testing in their product offering as of August 2026. They cover availability checks such as HTTP, ping, port, DNS and SSL. Real browser tests, visual regression and RUM are PingView features, available from the Professional plan.
UptimeRobot reaches a 60 second interval from its Solo plan at roughly 9 EUR per month, for 10 monitors. PingView needs Professional at 299 PLN per month for a 1 minute interval, which covers 100 monitors plus synthetic tests, visual checks, RUM and deep scanning. These are different scopes, not the same offer at different prices.
Their pricing is published in EUR and we found no publicly confirmed PLN invoicing option. PingView bills in PLN from a Polish entity and issues a downloadable VAT invoice.
We found no dedicated e-commerce integration in their offering. PingView publishes a WordPress plugin on wordpress.org plus PrestaShop and Magento 2 modules that provision a monitor from the shop admin.
It gives 50 monitors at a 5 minute interval with one status page and no custom domain. For an agency serving several clients that usually falls short, because there is no white labelling and no team seats. For a personal project it is generous.
On raw interval, UptimeRobot, because it reaches 15 seconds against our 1 minute. On a broken checkout that still returns HTTP 200, neither interval helps, and that is the case PingView is built for.
Every claim about UptimeRobot comes from their public pricing page, documentation and help centre, collected on 2026-08-15 and linked below. Every claim about PingView is checked against our own source code rather than our marketing copy, which is why some rows show limits our own landing pages used to overstate. Where a fact could not be confirmed from a primary source, we leave it out instead of guessing.
Disclosure: PingView publishes this page and PingView is one of the two products compared. We have an obvious interest in the outcome, so we list where the other tool is the better choice and link their pricing page so you can check the numbers yourself.
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