Pick Checkly if
sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location.
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Our take
Pick Checkly if sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location. Pick OneUptime if sRE / indie teams who will self-host at $0, or stay on Cloud Free at $0 (1 status page, 100 subscribers, unlimited manual monitors) and add $1 active monitors until they need
Best for
Checkly Playwright checks you start at $0
OneUptime Monitors you start at $0
Free plan
Checkly $0 · /month. 10 uptime monitors, max frequency 2 min, 6 locations, 1,000 browser/Playwright runs, 10,000 API runs. Email, Slack, webhooks. No private locations
OneUptime $0 · rEADME: “self-host for free.” Helm chart and Docker/Podman install. Enterprise / air-gapped is a sales path — do not invent that dollar. Microsoft Marketplace $0.10/user/hour appeared on the self-hosted marketing page as a cloud-bill SKU, not the GitHub installer
Lowest paid
Checkly Starter $24/mo yearly
OneUptime Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Checkly Local or hosted
OneUptime Local; you host it
Watch out
Checkly Hobby is 1,000 Playwright runs and 10 uptime monitors
OneUptime Free active monitors are $1/month each
Last checked
Checkly 2026-10-22 · checklyhq.com/pricing
OneUptime 2026-10-22 · oneuptime.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick OneUptime if
sRE / indie teams who will self-host at $0, or stay on Cloud Free at $0 (1 status page, 100 subscribers, unlimited manual monitors) and add $1 active monitors until they need Growth at $22 for unlimited pages, on-call, and API access.
Read the OneUptime page