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A curated directory of free plans, lifetime deals and startup credits, picked for people building something on their own dime.

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Moonitor

Moonitor

Uptime monitoring for a one-off price on AppSumo: 20 monitors at 60-second checks, SSL checks, all alert channels and branded status pages.

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#Uptime Monitoring #SSL #Domain Monitoring
Deal Type
Lifetime Deal
Deal Price
54
Normal Price
Solo $14/mo
Deal Platform
AppSumo
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Updown.io

Updown.io

Pay-as-you-go website monitoring with no subscription: buy credits, check every 15 seconds to every hour, and get SSL and domain expiry alerts.

Monitor your site and app
#Uptime Monitoring #SSL #Domain Monitoring
Deal Type
Free Trial
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Credit packs from €5 (200,000 credits, excl. VAT)
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
EUR
Upptime

Upptime

Free, open-source uptime monitor and status website that runs on GitHub, checking your pages every 5 minutes. It needs a GitHub repository.

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#Uptime Monitoring #Status Page #Open Source
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Free
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma

Free, open-source uptime monitor and status pages that you host yourself, with checks as often as every 20 seconds and 90+ alert services.

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#Uptime Monitoring #Status Page #Open Source
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Free
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
StatusCake

StatusCake

Free website uptime checks for personal sites: 3 monitors at 15-minute checks with email alerts. The free account is for personal use only.

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#Uptime Monitoring
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Superior £12.49/mo billed annually (£14.99 monthly)
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
GBP
Cronitor

Cronitor

Cron job and heartbeat monitoring, plus website and API checks, on a free plan for small projects: 5 monitors, email and Slack alerts.

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#Cron Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring #Status Page
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Business $2/monitor + $5/user per month
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Checkly

Checkly

Developer monitoring on a free Hobby plan: 10 uptime monitors at 2-minute checks plus API checks and scripted Playwright browser checks each month.

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#Uptime Monitoring #API Monitoring #Synthetic Monitoring
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Starter $24/mo
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Instatus

Instatus

A status page with uptime monitoring built in: 15 monitors at 2-minute checks and a public page for up to 200 subscribers, free with no card.

Monitor your site and app
#Status Page #Uptime Monitoring
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Pro from $20/mo
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Site24x7

Site24x7

Free forever website monitoring for 50 sites at 5-minute checks, with SSL certificate expiry checks, a public status page and uptime reports.

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#Uptime Monitoring #SSL
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Paid plans from $9/month
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Better Stack

Better Stack

Uptime checks, cron heartbeats and a status page on a free plan for personal projects, with Slack and email alerts. Paid plans add on-call tools.

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#Uptime Monitoring #Status Page
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Responder $34/mo
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Hyperping

Hyperping

Free uptime and SSL monitoring for 20 checks from 18 regions, with email, Slack and Teams alerts and a basic status page. No card needed.

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#Uptime Monitoring #SSL
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Essentials $24/mo
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
Pulsetic

Pulsetic

Free monitoring for 10 sites, APIs, cron jobs or domains, with SSL checks, domain expiry reminders and 3 status pages. No card needed.

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#Uptime Monitoring #Domain Monitoring
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Solo $9/mo
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD
UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot

Watch up to 50 sites, ports or cron jobs free, checked every 5 minutes, with email and chat alerts and a status page. No card needed.

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#Uptime Monitoring #Founder Pick #We use this
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Solo €12/mo billed yearly (€13 monthly)
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
EUR
HetrixTools

HetrixTools

Free uptime monitoring for 15 sites at 1-minute checks, with SSL expiry, domain expiry and nameserver-change alerts plus a public status page.

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#Uptime Monitoring #SSL
Deal Type
Free Plan
Deal Price
0
Normal Price
Professional $9.95/mo
Deal Platform
Direct
Deal Status
Verified
Currency
USD