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The managed alternative to Uptime Kuma.

Phare is a managed alternative to Uptime Kuma, with multi-region uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages, without the self-hosting.

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Trusted by 1,000+ teams that ship websites and APIs every day

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The seriously unbiased review of Uptime Kuma:

“Uptime Kuma is great, but you still have to host and maintain it. For about the same price as running a container, Phare lets you outsource both the infrastructure and the sleep deprivation to me.”

Nicolas Beauvais, Founder, Phare

Feature comparison between Phare and Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma Phare Start monitoring
Uptime monitoring
Website monitoring Included Included
TCP port monitoring Included Included
SSL certificate monitoring Included Included
Multi-region monitoring Single location, your server 12 regions
Minimum interval 20 seconds 30 seconds
Incident management
Automated incident creation Not included Included
Incident collaboration Not included Included
Incident timeline Not included Included
Postmortems Not included Included
Status pages
Public status pages Unlimited Unlimited
Custom domain Free, with your own reverse proxy and certificate Free
Incident subscription RSS RSS, Atom & Slack
Status page carbon rating A source

Can be different on your infrastructure

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Platform
Hosting Self-hosted, on your own server Managed, nothing to install
Open source MIT license Not included
Free plan Free and open source, hosting not included Included
Projects Not included Unlimited
Team members Single user Unlimited
Integrations > 90 Discord, Email, Pushover, Slack, SMS, Telegram, Webhooks
Privacy
Ad trackers None by default 0 source
Third-party cookies None by default 0 source
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Why teams choose Phare over Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma is great software, running it is the part teams would rather hand over.

Anny
“Phare provides a nice and clean UI, actually the best that I have seen for a monitoring tool so far. But you got many more features, like a status page with custom domain, own alert rules and alerting from different regions.”

Adriaan Wind, CTO & Co-Founder, Anny

Industry
Software as a Service
Team size
10–50
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Frequently asked questions

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  • Is Phare open source like Uptime Kuma?

    No, Phare is a hosted service and its code is not public. What is public is how the business runs, with revenue and expenses on the open page at phare.io/open. If reading or modifying the source code is a requirement, Uptime Kuma is the right choice.

  • Is Phare really the price of a VPS?

    Uptime Kuma is free, but it needs a server that costs a few euros per month, plus the time to keep it updated and backed up. Phare’s paid plan starts at 5€ per month with 500,000 monitoring events, enough for about five monitors checked every minute from two regions. The Hobby plan is free forever with 100,000 events.

  • When is self-hosting Uptime Kuma the cheaper option?

    When you monitor a lot of endpoints at short intervals from one location. Phare bills by monitoring event, Uptime Kuma only by the size of your server, so hundreds of monitors checked every 20 seconds will cost less on a VPS. You pay the difference in maintenance and in single-region blind spots.

  • Can Uptime Kuma monitor from multiple regions like Phare?

    An Uptime Kuma instance checks from the server it is installed on. Covering several locations means running several servers, or relying on third-party probes one location at a time. Phare checks from 12 regions across Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania, and can require a failure from multiple regions before creating an incident.

  • Can Phare monitor services inside my private network?

    Phare monitors what is reachable from the internet: websites, APIs, TCP ports, and ICMP ping. Uptime Kuma runs inside your network, so it is the better tool for Docker containers, databases, and anything that never leaves your LAN. Many teams run both, Uptime Kuma inside, Phare outside.

  • How do I migrate from Uptime Kuma to Phare?

    There is no one-click import. Monitors can be recreated from the dashboard, the REST API, the Terraform provider, or by asking an AI assistant connected to the MCP server. For a large number of monitors, send an email to support@phare.io to get some help.

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