01Compare · UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot is dependable, cheap, and generous on free monitor count. But it answers a different question than Glimly. UptimeRobot asks is it up? Glimly asks: is it up — and does the thing your visitors see look like the rest of your site?
Glimly's product is the embed. A designed SVG Badge for your footer or README, and a live multi-service Card with 90-day uptime bars for your /status section. Both match your brand, pulse gently while healthy, and lose the Glimly mark on the $15/mo Pro tier — and SSL certificate-expiry monitoring is included on every tier, even Free.
| Feature | Glimly | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Designed to match your brand | Generic default styling | |
| Embeddable Badge (footer, README, email) | Designed SVG, unbranded on Pro | Branded, utilitarian |
| Live multi-service status Card (Pro) | Hosted status page only | |
| Live "healthy" pulse animation | — | |
| SSL / certificate-expiry monitoring | Every tier, including Free | Not on Free; from ~$7/mo |
| Status surface styling | The embed is the product | Basic; full-featured pages from ~$29/mo |
| Free-tier monitors | 3 | 50 |
| Check types | HTTP + SSL | HTTP, keyword, ping, port, DNS, UDP |
Competitor details reflect UptimeRobot's publicly listed plans and can change — check their current pricing before deciding. On their published tiers, SSL & domain-expiry monitoring starts on the paid Solo plan and full-featured status pages on the Team plan. Glimly figures are from our own pricing page.
If you need a high free-tier monitor count, check types Glimly does not run yet — ping, port, DNS, UDP, keyword — or simply the lowest possible price, UptimeRobot is the pragmatic pick. It is a mature tool, and for pure "is it up?" coverage at zero cost the free tier is hard to beat. What it will not give you is a status surface you would be proud to put on your homepage.
If your site is considered, the status widget should be too. Glimly's Badge is a sub-2KB SVG that matches your theme, pulses while healthy, and works anywhere an <img> tag does — including GitHub READMEs and email signatures. The Card adds a multi-service grid with 90-day uptime bars, isolated in a shadow root so your page's CSS can never break it. SSL and certificate-expiry checks are included on every tier rather than sold separately, and the two-strike rule opens an incident only after two consecutive failures, which kills false-alarm noise. You get monitoring you show off, not hide on a subdomain.
Already on UptimeRobot? The migration guide walks through recreating your monitors from their URLs and swapping the badge.
Forge a Badge on the Free tier — SSL included — and see how it looks in your own footer. No card needed.
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