Better Uptime alternative

A Better Uptime alternative
without the invoice.

Better Uptime starts at $20 a month for 10 monitors. PULSX gives every team 50 monitors, status pages, incidents and on-call for free.

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Why teams switch
from Better Uptime.

50 monitors, not 10

Better Uptime's entry plan caps you at 10 monitors. Every PULSX team gets 50, with no plan to move up to when you outgrow it.

Alerts you can trust

1-minute checks, retry-verified failures, and alert delivery decoupled from the check pipeline so a busy queue never delays detection.

Incidents and on-call too

Incident timelines, postmortems, on-call rotations and escalation are part of PULSX, not a separate product or a higher tier.

PULSX and Better Uptime,
side by side.

Feature
PULSX
Free
Better Uptime
from $20/mo
PriceFree$20/mo and up
Monitors50 per team10
Check interval1 minute1 minute
SSL monitoringYesYes
Maintenance windowsYesYes
Status pagesUnlimited, your brandingYes
Incidents and on-callYesYes
Alert channelsEmail, Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhook, pushEmail, SMS, phone, Slack, webhook
Phone call alertsNoYes
Mobile appYesYes

Better Uptime (now part of Better Stack) is a strong product. If you need phone-call alerting or its logging and tracing stack, it earns its price. If you need uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call, PULSX does that for free.

Move over
in an afternoon.

01

Create a PULSX account

Free, no card. Invite your team from settings and give people roles.

02

Recreate your monitors

Add each URL with the interval, expected status code and alert channels that match your Better Uptime setup.

03

Cut over

Run a test alert, watch a few checks land, then cancel the Better Uptime subscription.

Questions

Why is PULSX free when Better Uptime charges?+
Hosting PULSX costs very little, usage is modest, and there is no sales team or enterprise tier to fund. So it is free, with fair-use caps (50 monitors, 25 members and 50 channels per team) instead of a price list.
Do you have phone call alerts like Better Uptime?+
No. PULSX alerts by email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhook and mobile push. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, that is a real point in Better Uptime's favour.
Can I migrate my status page?+
Status pages are rebuilt rather than imported: pick the monitors, set your branding and publish. It takes a few minutes, and you can run both pages in parallel while you switch your DNS or links.

Everything you use Better Uptime for, free.

50 monitors per team, 1-minute checks, status pages, incidents and on-call. No card.

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