Free plan
Free website monitoring that actually checks your site works
Most free monitoring tools ping your server and tell you it's "up." But even when your homepage loads, important parts of your site can still be broken — a missing script, a form that no longer submits, a checkout that quietly fails. Sitewatch's free plan opens your page and checks that everything on it works, so you find out before your visitors do. That's why one fully-checked site catches what dozens of simple pings miss.
- Checks every part of your page loads — images, scripts, styles and fonts
- No credit card required. Free forever for 1 site
- Tells you what broke and how to fix it — in plain English
01Free plan includes
Real monitoring, not just a ping
1 site, fully monitored
"1 site" isn't "1 ping." Your one site gets the same deep checks paid plans use — Sitewatch opens the page and confirms every part of it loads (images, scripts, styles and fonts), not just that the server answered.
Checked every 30 minutes, plus a ping every 5
Every 30 minutes Sitewatch opens your full page and checks it works; every 5 minutes it confirms the site is reachable. You catch a broken page fast, not hours later from a customer.
Plain-English diagnosis
When something breaks you get more than "your site is down." Sitewatch tells you what broke, why it matters, and what to do next — no technical knowledge required.
Email alerts
Get an email the moment your site has a real problem. No alert fatigue — you only hear from us when something is genuinely broken.
Content-change detection
Sitewatch remembers what your page should look like and alerts you when the content unexpectedly changes — after a bad deploy, a CMS edit, or a hack.
Incident history
See your site's health over time — when problems happened and how they were resolved.
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Detection rules
Free
1 site forever
No credit card
Required
02How free plans compare
Free website monitoring vs free uptime monitoring
| Scenario | Typical free uptime tool | Sitewatch free plan |
|---|---|---|
| What it checks | Whether the server answers | The full page and everything on it |
| Scripts & styles load | No | Yes |
| Catches files served the wrong way | No | Yes |
| Tells you what actually broke | No | Yes |
| Content-change detection | Keyword matching | Full-page fingerprint |
| Fix guidance | No | Step-by-step fix guides |
| Avoids false alarms | Manual | Retries before it alerts you |
What it checks
- Typical free uptime tool:
- Whether the server answers
- Sitewatch free plan:
- The full page and everything on it
Scripts & styles load
- Typical free uptime tool:
- No
- Sitewatch free plan:
- Yes
Catches files served the wrong way
- Typical free uptime tool:
- No
- Sitewatch free plan:
- Yes
Tells you what actually broke
- Typical free uptime tool:
- No
- Sitewatch free plan:
- Yes
Content-change detection
- Typical free uptime tool:
- Keyword matching
- Sitewatch free plan:
- Full-page fingerprint
Fix guidance
- Typical free uptime tool:
- No
- Sitewatch free plan:
- Step-by-step fix guides
Avoids false alarms
- Typical free uptime tool:
- Manual
- Sitewatch free plan:
- Retries before it alerts you
03Growing?
When you need more
Starter — 25 sites, $9/mo
For freelancers and small teams managing multiple sites. Faster checks, deploy verification, Slack & webhook alerts, and a branded status page.
Pro — 100 sites, $19/mo
For agencies and teams with a portfolio of client sites. Five-minute checks, monitoring from EU + US, API monitoring, unlimited status pages, and all 6 alert channels.
Annual billing — pay for 10, get 12
Starter $90/year ($7.50/mo, save $18). Pro $190/year ($15.83/mo, save $38). Same features, less cost.
Free plan FAQ
Yes. Monitor 1 site with the full page checks, plain-English diagnosis, and email alerts — no credit card, no trial expiration, no feature gating on the core checks. The free plan exists so you can see how Sitewatch works before committing.
The free plan covers 1 site, checked every 30 minutes, with a ping every 5 and email alerts. Paid plans add more sites (25 or 100), faster checks (every 15 or 5 minutes), deploy verification, Slack/webhook alerts, monitoring from a second region, API monitoring, status pages, and auto-reports.
Yes, upgrade anytime from your dashboard. Your monitoring history and settings are preserved. No migration needed.
UptimeRobot's free plan checks up to 50 URLs to see whether each server responds. Sitewatch's free plan opens 1 site and checks that everything on the page actually works — every script, stylesheet, image and font, on every run. It's fifty simple pings versus one deep check: fifty "the server answered" replies still miss a dead checkout; one real check doesn't. Different unit, not a smaller offer.
A site is one domain. You can monitor pages within that domain, and each check looks at the page and everything on it — often dozens or hundreds of individual files per page.
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No credit card. No trial. Free forever for 1 site.