Our take
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. Pick Uptime Kuma if operators who will self-host at $0 (Docker / binary) while they add a first louislam.net monitor, not a hosted Business $ we would invent.
Best for
OneUptime Monitors you start at $0
Uptime Kuma A Docker/local status desk you run at $0
Free plan
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
Uptime Kuma $0 · mIT license. Docker / non-Docker install on the README
Lowest paid
OneUptime Not published by the vendor
Uptime Kuma Not published by the vendor
Runs where
OneUptime Local; you host it
Uptime Kuma Local or hosted
Watch out
OneUptime Free active monitors are $1/month each
Uptime Kuma You run the box
Last checked
OneUptime 2026-10-22 · oneuptime.com/pricing
Uptime Kuma 2026-10-23 · uptime.kuma.pet
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 pageoperators who will self-host at $0 (Docker / binary) while they add a first louislam.net monitor, not a hosted Business $ we would invent.
Read the Uptime Kuma page
