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RealUptime Monitor vs OneUptime

OneUptime bundles uptime monitoring, status pages, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, and error tracking into a single Apache-2.0-licensed platform you can self-host free or use hosted with metered add-ons. RealUptime deliberately does less: monitoring, status pages, error tracking, and public outage data, each flat-priced. This page compares the two honestly, sourced to OneUptime's own pricing page and repository.

The short version

OneUptime is one open-source platform trying to replace your whole observability stack; RealUptime is four focused products that stop at monitoring, status pages, errors, and outage intelligence.

If you want one platform for everything, or you want to self-host, OneUptime is a legitimate answer: the license is real open source and the breadth is real. The trade-off is that breadth and metering are both complexity. Nine products in one platform is nine products to learn, and a bill assembled from per-monitor, per-SMS, per-GB meters is a bill you have to model before you know it. RealUptime's bet is the opposite: four products that each do one job, at flat prices you can read off the pricing page, with the monitor checking from independent regions whose readings are shown side by side. Choose by shape: platform versus products, meter versus flat.

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Verified September 2, 2026. Sources: OneUptime pricing, OneUptime repository (license).

Open-source, self-hostable code

Don’t have

hosted only today

Have

Apache 2.0 licensed; self-hosting from GitHub is free

Platform breadth (logs, metrics, traces, on-call, SIEM)

Partial

monitoring, status pages, error tracking, and outage intelligence; no logs, metrics, or traces by design

Have

uptime, status pages, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, error tracking, and security events in one platform

Flat, predictable pricing

Have

named plans; the monitor count and features on the plan are the whole bill, with no per-monitor meter

Partial

plan fee (Free, $22/mo Growth, $99/mo Scale) plus metered add-ons: active monitors $1/monitor/mo, SMS $0.10, calls $0.10/min, telemetry $0.10/GB

Free tier

Have

10 monitors at 60-second intervals plus 5 server-agent slots, $0/mo flat

Partial

1 status page and 100 subscribers free; active monitors are billed at $1/monitor/mo even on the free plan, per its pricing page

Status pages

Have

public status pages on every tier

Have

1 on Free with 100 subscribers; unlimited pages and subscribers on Growth

Phone-call and SMS notifications

Don’t have

pages by email, Slack, webhook, and the integration registry; no telephony of its own

Have

metered: SMS $0.10 per message, phone calls $0.10 per minute

Looking for an OneUptime 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.

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