OnlineOrNot
- Free allowance
- Hobby plan, free: 3 uptime monitors at a 3-minute check interval, 1,000 browser check runs a month, up to 2 users, 1 limited status page with 100 email subscribers, 14 days of data retention, email, Slack, Discord and Telegram alerts and authenticated API and MCP access; no SMS alerts and no...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota3 uptime monitors and 1,000 browser check runs per month on Hobby
- Evidence
- documented11 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Hobby plan, free: 3 uptime monitors at a 3-minute check interval, 1,000 browser check runs a month, up to 2 users, 1 limited status page with 100 email subscribers, 14 days of data retention, email, Slack, Discord and Telegram alerts and authenticated API and MCP access; no SMS alerts and no webhooks unit mixed; metered on request-count; The allowance mixes a count of monitors with a monthly count of browser check runs, so no single unit of the vocabulary fits. The Pro plan starts at USD 25 a month with 35 monitors, 3,000 browser check runs and a 30-second check interval; its button and the Hobby button both read Start trial, and whether Hobby has an end date is unverified: not stated on the pricing page. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Hobby has up to 2 users, no SMS alerts and no webhooks. |
| Binding | volume-quota The 3-monitor cap is reached first by any app with more than a few endpoints. |
| Identity | email (placeholder) unverified: the get-started page text shows only a Create your monitoring workspace heading and an agreement to the terms, and the pricing page states no credit card term for Hobby. |
| Egress | not applicable: an outbound checker; monitor data is read back through the authenticated API, which the pricing page lists as available on every plan |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a monitor checks a target; nothing is stored per object |
| Retention | 14 days of data retention on Hobby, against 12 months on Pro (14 days) |
| Interface | rest The pricing page lists authenticated API and MCP access as available on Hobby, Pro and Enterprise; the API reference page was not found at the address tried, so its host, authentication scheme and limits are unverified. |
| Tooling | the web app, the authenticated API and an MCP server |
| Composes with | External uptime and browser checks on up to 3 endpoints of free-hosted services every 3 minutes, with Slack, Discord or Telegram alerts and a status page. |
| Reliability | no throttle, ban or data loss is stated on the pages read beyond the 14-day data retention |
| Notes | The pricing page lists the Hobby plan under a Start trial button, the same label as the Pro plan, with no end date for Hobby stated. |
| Evidence note | documented Plan limits are quoted from the first-party pricing page. No account was opened, so the sign-up fields, the card term and the API host are unverified: behind a sign-up. |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | the Hobby plan is free with up to 2 users, a 3-minute check interval and a limited status page |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby has 3 uptime monitors against 35 on Pro |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby has 1,000 browser check runs a month against 3,000 on Pro |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby keeps data 14 days against 12 months on Pro |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | authenticated API and MCP access is available on Hobby |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby has Slack, Discord and Telegram alerts and no SMS alerts |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby has no webhooks |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby has 1 included status page |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | Hobby status pages have 100 email subscribers |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/pricing | the Pro plan starts at USD 25 a month with 35 monitors and a 30-second check interval |
| 2026-11-01 | onlineornot.com/get-started | the get-started page creates a monitoring workspace with an agreement to the terms |