YakGuard vs UptimeRobot
An honest comparison. The short version: every alert is verified from a second location before it pages you, the free plan allows commercial use with webhooks and the full API, and the paid tiers cost less.
| YakGuard | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan checks | 20 @ 5 min | 50 @ 5 min (non-commercial only) |
| Commercial use on free plan | ✓ allowed | ✗ forbidden |
| Webhooks on free plan | ✓ | ✗ ($38/mo plan) |
| REST API on every plan | ✓ | limited |
| Verified (multi-location) alerts | ✓ before every page | ✗ |
| SSL + domain expiry monitoring | ✓ free | paid |
| Broken-link crawling | ✓ | ✗ |
| Security-header & Core Web Vitals checks | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI incident post-mortems | ✓ | ✗ |
| Status pages | ✓ + subscribers + badges | ✓ |
| Cheapest paid plan | $14/mo annual ($18 monthly) | $15/mo annual |
| 200-monitor tier | $49/mo annual ($59 monthly), white-label | $54/mo annual |
Switch in minutes
Recreate your monitors with one script against the
REST API
— POST /api/v1/monitors
with a label and URL is all it takes.