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RealUptime Monitor vs Phare
Phare is a bootstrapped European uptime monitor with a generous free plan: 100,000 monitoring events a month, unlimited team members, and unlimited public status pages with custom domains. Its paid Scale plan starts at 5 euros a month and bills by usage beyond the included allowances. This page compares the two products row by row, sourced to Phare's own pricing and product pages and dated.
Pricing model
Have
flat named plans; a plan's monitor count and features are the whole bill
Partial
free Hobby plan, then Scale from 5 euros/mo billing per monitoring event, AI summary, and SMS beyond included allowances
Free tier
Have
10 monitors at 60-second intervals plus 5 server-agent slots, $0/mo
Have
100,000 monitoring events a month, unlimited team members and projects, no card required
Status pages with custom domains on the free tier
Partial
status pages on every tier; custom domains are a Growth and Scale feature
Have
unlimited public status pages with custom domains and SSL, free plan included
Multiple named regions shown together per check
Have
named region readings shown side by side, by default on every check
Partial
probes from 11 locations across Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania, with stats sliced by region, per its product page
Server agent (CPU, memory, disk)
Have
open agent for Linux, macOS, and Windows; 5 servers free
Not published
no server-resource agent advertised on its pricing or uptime product pages
Phone-call and SMS notifications
Don’t have
pages by email, Slack, webhook, and the integration registry; no telephony of its own
Have
20 SMS or voice alerts a month included on Scale, then 0.10 euros each
Error tracking in the same account
Have
RealUptime Errors shares the account: 10,000 events a month free
Not published
no error-tracking product advertised on its site
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
Phare: 100,000 monitoring events a month with unlimited team members and projects, no card required.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
Phare: a hosted product that publishes no source and no self-hosted edition.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement, these are the open-source options in this category: Uptime Kuma (MIT), OpenStatus (AGPL-3.0), Healthchecks.io (BSD 3-Clause) and OneUptime (Apache 2.0).
Looking for a Phare alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.