HostTracker vs Uptime Cairn

HostTracker9.2Visit Uptime Cairn8.4Visit

Higher score HostTracker #2 in Website Monitoring Software 9.2/10 Free plan · 30-day trial Free planFree trial✓ 6 of 6 features Visit HostTracker

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Uptime Cairn #10 in Website Monitoring Software 8.4/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 6 of 6 features Visit Uptime Cairn

• HostTracker fits best

  Broad infrastructure and website monitoring

• Uptime Cairn fits best

  Free self-hosted monitoring with broad checks

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Side by side

Feature	HostTracker 9.2/10 Visit ↗	Uptime Cairn 8.4/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.2	8.4
Ranking	#2 in Website Monitoring Software	#10 in Website Monitoring Software
Best for	Broad infrastructure and website monitoring	Free self-hosted monitoring with broad checks
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Free
Starting price	$5/mo	Free plan
Free plan	✓	✓
Free trial	30 days	—
Deployment	Cloud	Desktop, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Linux
Integrations	8 integrations	14 integrations
Features HostTracker 6/6 · Uptime Cairn 6/6
SSL monitoring	✓	✓
Latency monitoring	✓	✓
Page health checks	✓	✓
Status page	✓	✓
Maintenance windows	✓	✓
API access	✓	✓
Specs
Check types	Http	Http
Our review
Pros	Monitors websites, APIs, servers, databases, SSL and domain expiry Supports synthetic checkout and login transactions Includes status pages, APIs, SDKs, CLI and Terraform	Covers HTTP assertions, DNS, TLS, ports, containers, gRPC, and cron jobs Includes status pages, incidents, maintenance windows, and dependency suppression Supports scoped API access and many alert channels, including Slack and PagerDuty
Cons	Free plan is limited to 2 monitors and checks every 30 minutes Entry plans provide limited monitor capacity The platform may be broader than needed for basic uptime checks	Self-hosted deployment leaves infrastructure and ongoing maintenance to your team Requires Linux or a self-hosted environment rather than a hosted monitoring service No AI features for analysis, recommendations, or automated workflows
Our verdict	HostTracker is a website and infrastructure monitoring service for businesses, developers and website owners. It checks websites, APIs and servers from global checkpoints, measuring availability, response time and page speed. Coverage also… Read the review →	Uptime Cairn is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring application from Webloom Labs for teams that need to watch websites, servers, network endpoints, services, and scheduled processes. It runs as a single binary or Docker container, uses… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• HostTracker — where it wins

  • Monitors websites, APIs, servers, databases, SSL and domain expiry
  • Supports synthetic checkout and login transactions
  • Includes status pages, APIs, SDKs, CLI and Terraform

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan is limited to 2 monitors and checks every 30 minutes
  • Entry plans provide limited monitor capacity
  • The platform may be broader than needed for basic uptime checks

• Uptime Cairn — where it wins

  • Covers HTTP assertions, DNS, TLS, ports, containers, gRPC, and cron jobs
  • Includes status pages, incidents, maintenance windows, and dependency suppression
  • Supports scoped API access and many alert channels, including Slack and PagerDuty

  Where it doesn't

  • Self-hosted deployment leaves infrastructure and ongoing maintenance to your team
  • Requires Linux or a self-hosted environment rather than a hosted monitoring service
  • No AI features for analysis, recommendations, or automated workflows

• HostTracker9.2/10 · Free plan · 30-day trial

  A broad monitoring platform with low-cost entry pricing and extensive infrastructure coverage.

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• Uptime Cairn8.4/10 · Free plan

  A broad, free self-hosted monitor for websites, infrastructure, services, and scheduled jobs.

  Visit Uptime CairnFull verdict →