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RealUptime Status vs Hyperping
Hyperping bundles uptime monitoring, status pages, and on-call into one product. Its own documentation says a check rotates through your selected regions one region at a time per minute, and a failure is double-checked from the other selected regions before an outage opens. RealUptime Status reads every region a monitor is set to on the same run and shows them together: four regions on Free, eight on Growth, all ten on Scale.
Multiple named regions shown together per check
Have
4 named regions checked and shown together by default, configurable down per monitor
Don’t have
rotates one region at a time per minute; a failure is double-checked from other selected regions before alerting, per their own docs
Free tier
Have
10 monitors, 4 regions, $0/mo
Have
20 monitors, 1 status page (no custom domain), $0/mo
Check interval minimum
Have
1 minute on Free and Growth, 30 seconds on Scale
Partial
5 minutes on Free; 30 seconds from Essentials ($29/mo), 20 seconds on Business ($299/mo)
Monitor types beyond HTTP(S)
Partial
TCP and TLS port checks, DNS record checks, ping, mail-server (SMTP) checks, multi-step HTTP journeys, heartbeat/cron push monitoring, and browser checks on Scale, plus HTTP(S) endpoints
Have
DNS, TCP port, ping, keyword-content checks, SSL expiry, cron heartbeat, and Playwright browser checks, per their own docs
Status-page custom domain with HTTPS
Have
Growth and Scale, automatic TLS
Have
from Essentials ($29/mo); not included on Free
Team access
Have
owner, admin and responder roles
Have
2 seats included on Essentials, additional seats billed per user
On-call and incident response
Have
escalation policies with acknowledgement and on-call rotations, on Growth and Scale; each escalation step pages a person (email plus their chosen channels, including SMS or phone call) or a channel: Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Zapier, SMS, phone call, or webhook
Have
on-call and escalation policies from Essentials; phone call alerts from Pro
REST API
Have
Growth and Scale
Have
from Essentials; not included on Free
Webhook notifications
Have
HMAC-signed, every tier including Free
Not published
webhook support is listed as a feature, but which tier includes it is not specified on their pricing page
Public subscriber notifications
Have
every tier including Free
Have
100 subscribers on Essentials, rising by tier to unlimited on Business
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
Hyperping: 20 monitors and 1 status page without a custom domain, at $0/mo.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
Hyperping: a hosted product that publishes no source and no self-hosted edition.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement, these are the open-source options in this category: Uptime Kuma (MIT), OpenStatus (AGPL-3.0), Healthchecks.io (BSD 3-Clause) and OneUptime (Apache 2.0).
Looking for a Hyperping alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.