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RealUptime Monitor vs Pulsetic
Pulsetic is a straightforward uptime monitor with status pages, priced simply: a free plan of 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals, and paid plans from $9/mo that unlock faster checks, more regions, and SMS alerts. This page compares it with RealUptime Monitor row by row, sourced to Pulsetic's own pricing page and dated.
Free tier monitors
Have
10 monitors plus 5 server-agent slots, $0/mo
Have
10 monitors, $0/mo
Free tier check interval
Have
every 60 seconds
Partial
every 5 minutes on Free; 60 seconds requires Solo ($9/mo), 30 seconds Team ($19/mo)
Multiple named regions shown together per check
Have
named region readings shown side by side, by default on every check
Partial
3 region checks on Free, 5 on Solo, 15 on Team and Organization, per its pricing page
Server agent (CPU, memory, disk)
Have
open agent for Linux, macOS, and Windows; 5 servers free, 10 on Growth, 40 on Scale
Not published
no server-resource agent advertised on its pricing page
Status pages
Have
public status pages on every tier
Have
3 status pages on Free, unlimited on paid plans
Phone-call and SMS notifications
Don’t have
pages by email, Slack, webhook, and the integration registry; no telephony of its own
Have
SMS and call alert credits on paid plans (30+ on Solo, more on higher tiers)
REST API access
Have
REST API and MCP access on every plan, including Free
Partial
API and MCP access on Team and Organization plans only
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.
Pulsetic: 10 monitors at $0/mo on 5-minute checks; 60-second checks require Solo at $9/mo.
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.
Pulsetic: 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 Pulsetic 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.