What the Free plan includes
| Monitors | 5: websites and APIs (HTTP), server ports (TCP) or domain names (DNS) |
| Checks | Every 2 minutes or 5 minutes, from up to 3 cities per monitor, picked from all 15 |
| Timeout | Each city waits up to 3 seconds for an answer |
| History | 30 days |
| Metrics | Response time for the last 24 hours |
| Status pages | 1, with incidents, maintenance, email subscribers, a feed, JSON and a badge |
| Alert channels | 1: email, Slack, Discord or a webhook. Until you add one, alerts go to your account email |
Everything else is the same as on the paid plans: every kind of monitor and check option, every alert (outages, instability, error budget, slow answers, certificates close to expiry), acknowledging alerts and maintenance windows. How it works has the details.
Alerts you can trust
By default a monitor counts as down only when more than half of its cities fail, and at least two of them, two rounds in a row. With 3 cities that means 2 of them, so one city's network trouble doesn't wake you up. The alert names the cities that fail and what each one got.
No card, commercial use included
The Free plan costs nothing and needs no payment details. Use it for your own projects or for a business: commercial use is fine on Free too.
If you stop using your account
On Free, the monitors of an account nobody uses for 90 days are paused, after an email at 60 days and a reminder at 83 days, and never sooner than 30 days after the first email. Signing in, or opening the app in a browser that is still signed in, keeps them running, and after a pause one button resumes them all. Nothing is deleted.
Start in a minute
- Sign in with your email address: we email you a link, and there is no password. Or continue with GitHub.
- Add a monitor: a URL, a
host:portor a domain name. It starts with Frankfurt, Virginia, and Singapore; change them if you like. - Alerts go to your account email right away. Add a Slack, Discord, webhook or email channel if you prefer.
- Create your status page at
bbox.to/your-nameand pick the monitors it shows.
When you need more
| Free | Pro | Max | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitors | 5 | 25 | 100 |
| Checks as often as | 2 minutes | 1 minute | 30 seconds |
| Cities per monitor | 3 | 15 | 15 |
| Timeout up to | 3 seconds | 4 seconds | 5 seconds |
| History | 30 days | 1 year | 3 years |
| Metrics | Last 24 hours of response time | All charts | All charts |
| Status pages | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| Your own domain | No | No | Yes |
| Alert channels | 1 | 3 | 10 |
An upgrade starts at once. The pricing page has the prices of the paid plans.