UptimeRobot is a proven pinger with a generous free tier. StatusSpy adds what a pinger can't: a Site Health audit, AI-written incident updates, a hosted changelog and a public checker - one product, one bill.
StatusSpy
Free
Paid plans $12-$49/mo. Monitoring, status page and Site Health in every site.
UptimeRobot
Free tier
Paid plans scale with monitor count and interval.
Site Health scores performance, accessibility, SEO and Core Web Vitals per page, watches SSL expiry, and explains changes in plain English - the part an uptime pinger doesn't cover.
When a check fails, StatusSpy opens an incident and drafts a plain-English update, then keeps the public page and subscribers in sync - without you in the loop.
Status page, changelog, alerts, maintenance windows and a public checker, billed per site rather than stitched together from separate tools.
Choose UptimeRobot if: You mainly need a lot of cheap pings, non-HTTP check types like ports or heartbeats, or phone/SMS alerting - and the status page is secondary.
Choose StatusSpy if: You want the status page, incident handling and a site-quality audit alongside the monitoring, with AI doing the incident write-ups.
Free to start - monitoring, a status page and Site Health in one site. No sales call, no credit card.