5 minutes is too long.
The monitoring industry has settled on a 5-minute free tier as “standard.” We think that's a relic. SteadyStack gives you 1-minute checks for free — 400% faster detection, 5x more data points, and less downtime you have to explain to your customers.
See the difference 240 seconds makes
Scroll through the check intervals side by side. SteadyStack's free 1-minute interval means you detect problems before your competitors even run their first check.
SteadyStack gives you 1-minute checks for free — that's 400% faster than the industry standard 5-minute tier. Over 24 hours, you get 1440 checks vs the standard 288.
How downtime plays out
When your server goes down, every second counts. See how SteadyStack's faster check interval catches failures up to 4 minutes earlier than the competition.
Partial Outage
A single server crashes during a deployment. Takes 8 minutes to identify and roll back.
~5m
undetected downtime~3m
undetected downtimeDo the math yourself
Adjust the slider to see how SteadyStack's faster checks compound across your monitoring fleet.
1440
checks per day288
checks per day+400%
more visibility (1152 extra checks/day)With SteadyStack's 1-minute free interval, you get 400% more data points compared to the industry 5-minute standard. That's 1152 extra opportunities to detect failure per day — translating to ~2 minutes faster mean time to detection on every incident. Over a year on a single monitor, that's over 24 hours of downtime you won't have to explain to your customers.
Full feature comparison
SteadyStack doesn't just win on check intervals. See how we stack up across every feature that matters for modern infrastructure monitoring.
| Feature | SteadyStack | UptimeRobot | Better Uptime | OpenStatus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Failure confirmation ruleBattle | 2-of-3 (Free) · 4-of-7 (Paid) · Published | — | — | — |
| Multi-region checks on free tierBattle | ✓ Included (3 regions, 2-of-3) | — | — | — |
| Multi-ASN provider partition protectionBattle | ✓ Multi-ASN Quorum | — | — | — |
| Probe locations & health publishedBattle | ✓ Full list + live status | — | — | — |
| WAF & probe allowlistingBattle | ✓ CF-Worker header | — | — | — |
| Free tier check intervalBattle | 3m (1m for first 10) | — | — | — |
| Free monitor limitBattle | 50 monitors | — | — | — |
| Commercial use on free tierBattle | ✓ Guaranteed in writing (stable ToS) | — | — | — |
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