New Relic Synthetic Monitoring vs UptimeRobot

Free tier available

From $7 per month (indicative, Solo)

The free tier is genuinely usable. Costs come from full-platform user seats rather than check volume.

One of the best free tiers in infrastructure tooling; paid plans are still inexpensive.

100 GB of data ingest and one full-platform user free every month, permanently.

50 monitors at 5-minute intervals, free forever.

Widely used

New Relic · since 2015

Widely used

UptimeRobot · since 2010

• The most generous permanent free tier of any major observability platform.
• Synthetics, APM, logs and RUM under one bill and one query language.
• Scripted browser monitors use standard Selenium-style JavaScript.

• Free tier covers what most small projects actually need.
• Five-minute setup with no configuration to learn.
• Status pages included even on lower tiers.

• Per-user pricing for full-platform access surprises teams that want wide visibility.
• The interface is dense and takes time to navigate confidently.
• Synthetics is less differentiated than Datadog's correlation story.

• No browser-based transaction monitoring — availability only.
• Basic alerting logic; expect some noise from transient failures.
• Limited reporting and no observability integration.

Teams wanting an observability platform with monitoring included and a real free tier.

Side projects, small businesses and anyone who currently has no monitoring at all.