Yes, Downtime Monkey has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes Maximum number of monitors: 60, Monitor frequency: Every 5 minutes, and Monitoring locations: 1 location in the UK. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about <$1/mo.
About
Downtime Monkey is a website uptime monitoring service that checks websites every minute and records response times, uptime statistics, and downtime logs. It sends downtime notifications by email, SMS, and Slack, and supports content monitoring for keyword-based checks.
The free plan allows monitoring up to 60 websites with checks every 5 minutes, one monitoring location in the UK, email alerts, Slack alerts, response time monitoring, and uptime stats. SMS alerts are available, but the plan includes 0 free SMS credits and does not include content monitoring, bulk imports, custom alert times, repeat alerts, or downtime logs.
- Up to 60 monitored websites
- 5-minute monitoring frequency
- 1 UK monitoring location
- Email and Slack alerts
- Response time monitoring included
- Uptime stats for up to 90 days
- 0 free SMS credits
- No downtime logs on free plan
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a real, perpetual plan with meaningful caps: up to 60 monitors, 5-minute checks, one UK location, and core alerts/stats, but it lacks several pro-only capabilities like content monitoring, global locations, custom alerting, and longer retention. Compared with the cheapest paid plan at $0.69/month, it offers much more capacity but fewer advanced features, so a buyer would likely value it at about $2.16/month—roughly a small multiple of the entry plan rather than anywhere near the full paid feature set.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Maximum number of monitors: 60.
- Monitor frequency: Every 5 minutes.
- Monitoring locations: 1 location in the UK.
- Uptime monitoring: Included.
- Response time monitoring: Included.
- Email alerts: Included.
- SMS alerts: Available.
- Slack alerts: Included.
- Uptime stats: Included.
- Graphs of individual response times: Included.
- Graphs of daily average response times: Available for 7 days.
- Provide feedback: Included.
- Request features: Included.
- Support: Email support.
See Downtime Monkey pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro1
- monitors
- 1
- check interval
- 1 minute
- monitoring locations
- 6
- free SMS credits
- 5
- stats retention
- 2 years
- daily response-time graphs retention
- 2 years
- 1 monitor
- 1-minute checks
- 6 global monitoring locations
- Choose monitoring locations
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time monitoring
- Content monitoring
- Email alerts
Pro10
- monitors
- 10
- check interval
- 1 minute
- monitoring locations
- 6
- free SMS credits
- 5
- stats retention
- 2 years
- daily response-time graphs retention
- 2 years
- 10 monitors
- 1-minute checks
- 6 global monitoring locations
- Choose monitoring locations
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time monitoring
- Content monitoring
- Email alerts
Pro30
- monitors
- 30
- check interval
- 1 minute
- monitoring locations
- 6
- free SMS credits
- 5
- stats retention
- 2 years
- daily response-time graphs retention
- 2 years
- 30 monitors
- 1-minute checks
- 6 global monitoring locations
- Choose monitoring locations
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time monitoring
- Content monitoring
- Email alerts
Pro50
- monitors
- 50
- check interval
- 1 minute
- monitoring locations
- 6
- free SMS credits
- 5
- stats retention
- 2 years
- daily response-time graphs retention
- 2 years
- 50 monitors
- 1-minute checks
- 6 global monitoring locations
- Choose monitoring locations
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time monitoring
- Content monitoring
- Email alerts
Pro100
- monitors
- 100
- check interval
- 1 minute
- monitoring locations
- 6
- free SMS credits
- 5
- stats retention
- 2 years
- daily response-time graphs retention
- 2 years
- 100 monitors
- 1-minute checks
- 6 global monitoring locations
- Choose monitoring locations
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time monitoring
- Content monitoring
- Email alerts
Pro150
- monitors
- 150
- check interval
- 1 minute
- monitoring locations
- 6
- free SMS credits
- 5
- stats retention
- 2 years
- daily response-time graphs retention
- 2 years
- 150 monitors
- 1-minute checks
- 6 global monitoring locations
- Choose monitoring locations
- Uptime monitoring
- Response time monitoring
- Content monitoring
- Email alerts
Pricing extracted from Downtime Monkey's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Downtime Monkey free forever?
Yes. Downtime Monkey has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Downtime Monkey's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Downtime Monkey's cheapest paid plan is Pro1 at $0.69 / month.
What is Downtime Monkey's free tier worth?
Downtime Monkey's free tier is worth about <$1 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 35/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
