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Super Monitoring vs Uptime Cairn
Both stand on website monitoring software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
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Super Monitoring provides broad website checks, alerting, diagnostics, reporting, and integrations. It requires a paid plan after the trial, with monitoring frequency and SMS usage affecting the service’s limits and costs.
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Uptime Cairn offers broad monitoring, alerting, reporting, and status-page features in a self-hosted package. Its lack of a hosted tier and the listed unshipped features matter if you need those capabilities.
Visit Uptime CairnThe facts
| Super Monitoring | Uptime Cairn | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A free trial | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | Not published |
| Runs on | API, Web | API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | Super: $59 a year | Free or on request |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | supermonitoring.com | uptimecairn.dev |
| On website monitoring software | #46 of 55 | #18 of 55 |
Super Monitoring: what it does well
- Checks availability, forms, transactions, and page changes
- Confirms incidents from multiple locations
- Provides screenshots, HTML, or HAR analysis
- Stores event history indefinitely
- Offers webhooks and CMS interfaces
What to know first
- No free plan
- Plans limit testing frequency to one minute
- Extra 100 SMS credits cost $7
- Trial lasts 14 days
Uptime Cairn: what it does well
- Supports a wide range of network and service checks.
- Status pages allow custom domains and branding.
- Provides a REST API and scheduled reports.
- No features are held back for a paid tier.
What to know first
- There is no hosted tier.
- Multi-region probing, SSO, and synthetic browser flows have not shipped.
- The site recommends a reverse proxy before internet exposure.
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