MonitoraWeb vs Uptime Kuma, no spin.
Free software you install on your own server. Free, complete, and with nobody behind it to write to. Here is what each does better, with sources, so you choose well.
Uptime Kuma data reviewed on 25 October 2026 on its official site.
Where Uptime Kuma is better
- It is free and open source, and your data stays on your server.
- A huge number of monitor types: databases, Docker, queues, games…
- More than 100 alert channels.
- Checks every 20 seconds.
Where MonitoraWeb is better
- There is nothing to install or maintain. If you install Kuma on the same server as your sites, when that server goes down the monitor goes down too.
- Your team joins with roles. Uptime Kuma is single-user.
- WhatsApp through Meta's official API. In Kuma it goes through third-party gateways you set up and pay for.
- .pe expiry through their DNS. Kuma only reads dates through RDAP, and .pe has no RDAP.
- An official API, a month-end PDF and someone who answers you in Spanish.
Point by point
| Topic | MonitoraWeb | Uptime Kuma |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 10 sites every 5 min, forever | Free: you host it |
| Cheapest paid plan | Agency · US$15.53/mo · 100 sites | Your server and your time |
| Fastest check | Every 60 s | Every 20 s |
| How an outage is confirmed | From a single point: 3 failures in a row, each retried after 10 s | Retries from your single server |
| Native, through Meta's official API, included in paid plans | Through third-party gateways you set up and pay for | |
| SMS and voice calls | No | Through third-party providers |
| Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram and webhook | All five on paid plans, with signed webhooks | All five |
| Status pages | 1 free; 30 or unlimited on paid plans, on your domain, with your brand and subscribers | Several, on your domain; no subscribers |
| Certificate expiry | On every plan, free included | Yes |
| Domain expiry (and .pe) | On every plan; .pe domains through their DNS | RDAP only: no .pe |
| Cron and heartbeats | Yes | Yes |
| API | REST and MCP, on paid plans | Internal, not officially supported |
| Team | With roles, no cost per user | Single user |
| Month-end report | PDF with all your sites, on paid plans | No |
| In Spanish | Dashboard, alerts and support | Community translation |
| How you pay | PayPal or card through PayPal; invoice with RUC in Peru | — |
✓ has it · ◐ has it with limits or partly · ✕ does not have it or does not advertise it. Prices in US dollars, per month, before tax.
Which one suits you?
Choose Uptime Kuma
If you have someone technical to maintain it and want everything inside your own infrastructure.
Choose MonitoraWeb
If you do not want to maintain one more server, you work as a team or you need reports and status pages for your clients.
Questions
Does Uptime Kuma alert on WhatsApp?
Through third-party gateways you set up and pay for. In MonitoraWeb it is included in paid plans and goes out from our official WhatsApp Business number, through Meta's API.
What does Uptime Kuma do better than MonitoraWeb?
It is free and open source, and your data stays on your server. A huge number of monitor types: databases, Docker, queues, games… More than 100 alert channels. Checks every 20 seconds.
Where does MonitoraWeb check from?
From a single point: our server. That is why each failure is retried after 10 seconds and an outage only counts after three failures in a row. We would rather say so than promise a network of servers we do not have.
Sources
Uptime Kuma's official pages, reviewed on 25 October 2026. Uptime Kuma is a trademark of its owner; we have no relationship with that company.
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