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Super Monitoring vs Uptime Kuma
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.
Free trial APIWeb
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.
Visit Super Monitoring Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
Uptime Kuma provides broad self-hosted monitoring, alerting and status-page features under an MIT license. Check the supported operating systems and storage limitations before choosing a deployment.
Visit Uptime KumaThe facts
| Super Monitoring | Uptime Kuma | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A free trial | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | Not published |
| Runs on | API, Web | Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Windows |
| Lowest paid plan | Super: $59 a year | Free or on request |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | supermonitoring.com | github.com |
| On website monitoring software | #46 of 55 | #19 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 Kuma: what it does well
- Monitors services, DNS, Docker containers and more.
- Supports more than 90 notification services.
- Multiple status pages can map to specific domains.
- Installation instructions cover Docker and non-Docker setups.
- Includes two-factor authentication.
What to know first
- Network file systems such as NFS are unsupported.
- FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Replit and Heroku are unsupported.
- General or technical support by email is unavailable.
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