Hyperping is clean, quick and well priced. It does uptime monitoring and status pages, it does not pretend to be an observability platform, and the product is better for it. Several of its numbers are better than ours and it would be silly to hide that.
What Hyperping does better
A bigger free tier. 20 monitors at a 5-minute interval with a status page, against our 10 at 3 minutes. Twice the monitors, no card.
30-second checks cost less. Their Essentials plan is $24/month for 50 monitors at 30 seconds. With us, 30-second checks mean Business at €79/month. If your requirement is "50 monitors, checked every 30 seconds" and nothing exotic, Hyperping is the cheaper way to get it, plainly.
More status pages on mid plans. Pro at $74/month includes 3 status pages and 10 seats.
Seats are generous and explicit at every tier — 3, 10, 20.
Where we differ
Check depth. Hyperping monitors HTTP, ports and the usual web surface. It does not speak Minecraft's server list ping, Steam's A2S query, FiveM's endpoint, Discord's gateway, or open an authenticated connection to Postgres, MySQL or Redis and run a real query. It does not check mail blocklists. If any of those is the thing you actually need watched, price stops being the question.
Proof the alert arrived. Outbox before every send with a ~50-minute retry ladder; a weekly test event through every channel you configured, with the failures named; an "Alerts are at risk" banner when delivery is degraded; and /api/health returning 503 when our checker stops so an outside watchdog can page you. Hyperping sends alerts. It does not keep demonstrating that the channel works.
Alerts through your own Discord bot — your server's name and avatar, with "I'm on it", "Mute 1 h" and "Resolve" buttons on the message — rather than a generic webhook post.
Longer retention at the top. 365 days on Business.
Side by side
| Hyperping | Uplance | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 20 monitors, 5 min, 1 status page | 10 monitors, 3 min, status page |
| Entry paid plan | Essentials, $24/mo — 50 monitors, 30 s, 3 seats | Pro, €19/mo — 50 monitors, 60 s, 10 members |
| Mid plan | Pro, $74/mo — 250 monitors, 30 s, 3 pages, 10 seats | Business, €79/mo — 250 monitors, 30 s, 20 pages, 50 members |
| Large plan | Business, $249/mo — 1,000 monitors, 20 s | On request |
| Fastest interval | 20 s on Business | 30 s on Business; 20 s on request |
| Game server checks | No | Minecraft, Source/Steam, FiveM |
| Discord bot presence | No | Yes, via a real gateway connection |
| Database checks | No | Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis |
| Mail blocklist checks | No | Five blocklists |
| Browser flow monitoring | No | Yes, on Pro and above |
| Proof alerts were delivered | No | Outbox, retry ladder, weekly drill |
Which one to pick
Hyperping if you need 30-second HTTP checks at the lowest price, or if the free tier's 20 monitors is what decides it. On those two axes it beats us and we are not going to spin it.
Uplance if what you need watched is not a web page — a Minecraft network, a Discord bot, a database — or if you want the delivery of the alert to be something you can verify rather than assume.
If it is close, compare at the tier you would actually buy: our Business at €79 and their Pro at $74 are the same monitor count and the same interval, and the difference is what each can check and whether you can prove the alert landed.