One flat price per plan — no per-seat fees, no SMS credit packs, no surprise per-monitor bills. 1-minute checks from $7/mo. Just the monitoring you need, none of the platform bloat you don't.
✓ 10 monitors free, no credit card·✓ 1-minute checks from $7·Cancel anytime — keep your plan to period end.
Watch what happens as these tools grow up: more tiers, more add-ons, more platform. Here's the pattern — and how Dumza stays out of it.
The popular tools have bolted on incident management, on-call scheduling, telemetry and enterprise tiers. You came to learn when your site is down — now there's a whole suite to learn first.
The classic trap: the cheapest paid plan often starts with fewer monitors than free, just to unlock 1-minute checks. There's no gentle on-ramp.
Then come the $29/seat licenses, SMS credit packs that burn at mystery rates, and per-monitor metering you can't forecast.
The rest of the category is converging on seats, credit packs and platform sprawl. Dumza stays flat and focused — here's how pricing actually works.
| How pricing works | Dumza | UptimeRobot | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| One flat price per plan | Yes ✓ | + credit packs | Per-seat + add-ons |
| Per-seat / per-responder fees | None ✓ | Seat add-ons | Charged per seat |
| Metered SMS / voice credits | No — email & webhooks | Credit packs | Bundled in seat |
| What you pay = the price shown | Yes ✓ | Varies with credits & seats | Varies with seats & pages |
| Product scope | Focused: uptime, alerts, status | Broad monitoring suite | Incident + telemetry platform |
Competitor terms as observed June 2026 — plans change; verify on their current pricing pages.
Built for developers who can't afford downtime — and don't want to wade through an observability suite to add a health check.
HTTP endpoints checked as often as every minute. GET, HEAD or POST, with the exact status code you expect.
Email and HMAC-signed webhooks the moment a service goes down — with built-in de-duplication so a flapping endpoint doesn't blow up your inbox.
Share a live status page with your users — custom slug, brand color, and manual incident updates. Coming in a follow-up release.
Latency history with hourly resolution and a 90-day uptime calendar — so you see trends, not just the current red/green.
Verify the response body contains (or doesn't contain) a string. Catch the silent failures that still return a 200.
Incidents open after N consecutive failures, close on recovery with duration logged. Acknowledge one and the re-alerts go quiet.
No per-seat fees. No metered SMS. Cancel anytime and keep your plan until the period ends.
Every plan is flat and single price. No seat fees, no SMS credit packs, no per-monitor metering — the number you see is the number you pay.
Prices shown in USD. Applicable sales tax / VAT is calculated at checkout by our payment provider (Polar).
10 monitors with 5-minute checks, email + webhook alerts, 90-day uptime history, and the full incident timeline. No credit card to start, and you can stay on Free as long as the limits fit.
No. Every plan is a single flat price. We don't sell responder seats or login seats — the price on the card is the whole bill.
You keep your paid features until the end of the period you already paid for, then drop to Free automatically. No mid-cycle cutoff, no clawback.
Email and HMAC-signed webhooks ship now — which covers Slack, Discord and most tools via their inbound webhooks. Native Slack, Telegram and more are on the way.
Yours. Set it once in Settings → Profile and every monitor page, incident log, and email respects it. (The 90-day uptime bars stay UTC-aligned — noted under the chart — because rollups are UTC.)
Recreate your setup in minutes, run it alongside your current tool for a week, then switch. Start free — no card, commercial use included.