Side by side
| ViewPeek | UptimeRobot (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Free monitors | 10 (5-min checks) | 50 (5-min checks) |
| Monitor types | Uptime, SSL expiry, ping, sitemap validation | HTTP, port, ping, keyword, DNS, SSL & domain expiry |
| Alert channels on free | Email, Slack, Discord, webhook — all included | Capped at 5 integrations; no notify seats |
| Status pages | Public pages with incidents + maintenance windows, per-monitor opt-in | Basic status pages on free |
| SSL expiry alerts | 30 / 14 / 7 days before expiry | SSL & domain expiry monitoring |
| 1-minute interval | Paid plans | Paid plans (60s from ~€7/mo) |
| SSO / SCIM | SAML 2.0 + SCIM 2.0 on every paid plan | Not on entry plans |
| Résidence des données | EU-only (France), GDPR-native | European company; EU-only hosting not advertised |
| Paid pricing | Basic €9.99 (50 monitors) · Pro €29.99 (200) | From ~€7/mo (10 monitors, 60s) |
UptimeRobot column verified against uptimerobot.com/pricing, July 2026. ViewPeek column verified against viewpeek.com/pricing the same day. Competitor tiers change — re-check before relying on a single cell.
Monitor counts vs monitor types
UptimeRobot's free plan wins on raw count: 50 monitors is generous, and for a hobbyist watching many small endpoints it's the pragmatic choice. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.
ViewPeek's free plan takes a different bet: fewer monitors, but every monitor type included — uptime, SSL certificate expiry, ping, and sitemap validation. Sitemap validation is the one you don't see elsewhere: ViewPeek fetches your sitemap.xml on a schedule, checks the URLs it declares, and alerts you when pages your sitemap promises are broken or missing. If SEO matters to your site, that's a monitor class of its own.
Alerts: where free plans usually squeeze
Alerting is where monitoring tools traditionally push you to paid tiers. UptimeRobot's free plan caps integrations at five and reserves notify seats for paid plans. ViewPeek includes every channel it has — email, Slack, Discord, and generic webhook — on every plan, free included, with a send-test button so you can verify a channel before you rely on it. An alert that can't reach you isn't a feature.
Status pages
Both offer status pages. ViewPeek's are opt-in per monitor — nothing is public until you choose it — and include incident publishing with an acknowledge/resolve timeline plus scheduled maintenance windows that mute alerts and show planned work instead of an outage. If you show a status page to customers, the incident and maintenance layers are what make it credible during a bad day.
Hosting: both European, one guarantee
This is not a geography contest — UptimeRobot is a European company too. The difference is the hosting commitment: ViewPeek runs exclusively on EU infrastructure in France, and monitor configurations, results, and account data never leave the European Union. UptimeRobot does not advertise an EU-only hosting guarantee. If your compliance posture needs "the data stays in the EU" as a fact rather than a preference, that's the line to check with any vendor.
So which one
If you want the most monitors for zero euros and multi-location checks, UptimeRobot's free plan is hard to argue with. If you want every alert channel without a paywall, sitemap validation, credible status pages with incidents and maintenance, SSO and SCIM at SMB prices, and an EU-only data guarantee — that's ViewPeek. We built it for teams whose monitoring is part of how they serve customers, not a hobby dashboard.