UptimeVanguard is open for business

Today, 11 November 2026, paid plans for UptimeVanguard went live. 11/11 seemed like a good date for it.

Before today, the team ran UptimeVanguard for a long time as a test: real monitors, real alerts and real incidents, but no invoices. That period is over. You can now sign up, pick a plan and pay for it. This post says what you get, what it costs and what comes next. We kept it short on purpose.

What UptimeVanguard does

UptimeVanguard checks your websites and services and tells you when something breaks. It monitors:

• Websites and APIs over HTTP.
• SSL certificates, so an expiring certificate does not surprise you.
• DNS records, with an alert when a name points somewhere new.
• Ping and TCP ports, for servers and services that do not speak HTTP.
• Cron jobs and scheduled tasks, through heartbeats.

Checks run from ten regions: Amsterdam, London, Falkenstein, Newark, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, São Paulo and Johannesburg. When a website, API, ping or DNS check fails, a second region checks the same target before we open an incident and alert you. A bad route to one probe should not wake anyone up at night.

On the paid plan, up to 10 HTTP or ping checks per team run every 30 seconds, at no extra charge. Other checks run every minute or slower.

Alerts go where you want them. There are ten channels: email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, ntfy and webhooks. SMS goes through your own Vonage, Twilio or CM.com account, so there are no SMS credits to run out.

Status pages show your visitors what works and what does not. Visitors can subscribe by email. They get an email when a component goes down or recovers, and when you post an update.

Free tools

Three tools work without an account: the SSL checker reads a site's certificate, Is it down? checks a site from every region, and the SLA calculator turns an uptime percentage into allowed downtime.

What it costs

The Free plan covers 3 sites, checked every 5 minutes from one region. It includes every check type, every alert channel, 1 status page and 30 days of history. No card.

The paid plan costs €10 a month for 5 sites. Each extra site costs €1.50 up to 25 sites, €1.20 up to 100, €0.95 up to 250 and €0.70 up to 500. So 25 sites cost €40 a month and 100 sites cost €130. Prices exclude VAT. Every check type, every region, every alert channel and unlimited team members are in the paid plan at every size. The pricing page has the details.

Start free: every check type on 5 sites for 7 days, then the Free plan unless you upgrade. No card. The Free plan needs a verified email address.

Where we are

UptimeVanguard is an EU company from the Netherlands. The application and your check results are hosted in Germany, at Hetzner in Falkenstein. The monitoring nodes in the other regions only run checks: they keep the check details in memory and send the result back to Germany.

What comes next

More check types and more integrations. We will not promise dates here. The changelog shows what has shipped, when it ships.

Try it

If you use another tool today, our comparison pages put UptimeVanguard side by side with Hyperping, UptimeRobot, Pingdom and Better Stack, with sources and the date we checked their prices. The easiest test is to run both for a week and compare the alerts.

You can start for free today.