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Head-to-head · Site Reliability Engineering Platforms

OneUptime vs Sloth

  • Updated Oct 2026
  • Both researched from official sources
  • 4 checks side by side
Higher score OneUptime #6 in Site Reliability Engineering Platforms 7.8/10 Free plan · paid from $22/user/mo · 14-day trial Free plan✓ 0 of 5 features Visit OneUptime
Sloth #8 in Site Reliability Engineering Platforms 7.3/10 Open source ✓ 3 of 5 features Visit Sloth

OneUptime leads on 1 check, Sloth on 3, and 0 are even. Who comes out ahead on the 4 yes/no, price and count checks where we have data for both products. The editor score weighs everything else too.

Our verdict

  • Highest scoreOneUptime · 7.8/10
  • Free planonly OneUptime
  • Most featuresSloth · 3 of 5

OneUptime scores higher on our rubric for site reliability engineering platforms: 7.8 against 7.3 out of 10; our editors rank them #6 and #8.

OneUptime offers free plan; Sloth doesn't publish it. Sloth offers slo management; OneUptime doesn't publish it. Sloth offers error-budget tracking; OneUptime doesn't publish it. Sloth offers sre reporting; OneUptime doesn't publish it.

OneUptime is the better fit for smaller teams combining on-call and incident response. Sloth is the better fit for kubernetes teams managing SLOs declaratively.

  • OneUptime fits best

    Smaller teams combining on-call and incident response

  • Sloth fits best

    Kubernetes teams managing SLOs declaratively

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Side by side

Feature OneUptime 7.8/10 Visit ↗ Sloth 7.3/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score 7.8 7.3
Ranking #6 in Site Reliability Engineering Platforms #8 in Site Reliability Engineering Platforms
Best for Smaller teams combining on-call and incident response Kubernetes teams managing SLOs declaratively
Pricing model Free plan + paid Free
Starting price $22/user/mo Not published
Free plan ✓ (best) Not published
Free trial — —
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Self-hosted
Support Email, Live chat, Phone, Docs · 24/7 Docs, Community
Integrations 5,000+ integrations 4 integrations
Built for Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features OneUptime 0/5 · Sloth 3/5
SLO management Not published ✓ (best)
Error-budget tracking Not published ✓ (best)
Reliability scorecards Not published Not published
Workflow automation Not published Not published
SRE reporting Not published ✓ (best)
Specs
Service limit Not published Not published
Deployment model Not published Self_hosted
Our review
Pros
  • Connects incident management with on-call rotations and alert escalation
  • Attaches runbooks and publishes incident updates or postmortems to status pages
  • Offers hosted and self-hosted deployment options
  • Generates recording rules, error-budget metrics, and multi-burn-rate alerts
  • Validates SLO specifications for GitOps and CI workflows
  • Supports Kubernetes CRDs, OpenSLO, Grafana, and plugins
Cons
  • Published features do not show SLO or error-budget management
  • Growth starts at $22 per user monthly; Scale is $99 per user monthly
  • The Free plan limits status pages to one and subscribers to 100
  • Requires teams to operate it in a self-hosted environment
  • Focused on Prometheus-based monitoring rather than hosted observability
  • Support is through documentation and community
Our verdict

OneUptime combines incident management, on-call response and observability for teams operating software and infrastructure. It supports manual or monitor-triggered incident creation, custom states and severity levels, owner assignment,…

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Sloth is an open-source tool that generates Prometheus recording and alerting rules from declarative service-level objective specifications. It is aimed at teams that already operate Prometheus-based monitoring and want SLO definitions to…

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  1. OneUptimeSite Reliability Engineering Platforms 7.8Free plan · paid from $22/user/mo · 14-day trial
  2. SlothSite Reliability Engineering Platforms 7.3Open source

Strengths and trade-offs

  • OneUptime — where it wins

    • Connects incident management with on-call rotations and alert escalation
    • Attaches runbooks and publishes incident updates or postmortems to status pages
    • Offers hosted and self-hosted deployment options

    Where it doesn't

    • Published features do not show SLO or error-budget management
    • Growth starts at $22 per user monthly; Scale is $99 per user monthly
    • The Free plan limits status pages to one and subscribers to 100

  • Sloth — where it wins

    • Generates recording rules, error-budget metrics, and multi-burn-rate alerts
    • Validates SLO specifications for GitOps and CI workflows
    • Supports Kubernetes CRDs, OpenSLO, Grafana, and plugins

    Where it doesn't

    • Requires teams to operate it in a self-hosted environment
    • Focused on Prometheus-based monitoring rather than hosted observability
    • Support is through documentation and community
  • OneUptime7.8/10 · Free plan · paid from $22/user/mo · 14-day trial

    OneUptime brings incident workflows and on-call response together, with observability tools alongside.

    Visit OneUptimeFull verdict →
  • Sloth7.3/10 · Open source

    A self-hosted tool for turning declarative SLOs into Prometheus rules and dashboards.

    Visit SlothFull verdict →

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Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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