UptimeRobot was the only uptime monitoring tool named in all six answers, a clean 6 of 6 (100%), when we put six buyer questions to ChatGPT and Gemini on 3 August 2026. No other tool matched it. This is a real measurement: one live web search per question, every product named and every source domain recorded, nothing added by hand.
Hyperping came second, named in 5 of the 6 answers (83%). Better Stack and Uptime Kuma tied next at 4 of 6 each (67%). After that the drop is steep: Pingdom and Site24x7 landed 2 of 6 (33%) apiece, and six more tools (Datadog, Hetrixtools, New Relic, Pulsetic, StatusCake and Uptime.com) showed up once each (17%). Twelve tools in total were named across the six questions.
How the shortlist changed with the question
The top of the list held steady, but the tail swung hard depending on how the question was phrased. UptimeRobot appeared in every one of the six sub-questions. Hyperping appeared in 5 of 6, missing only the "best free" query. Everything below them moved with the wording.
The bare "best uptime monitoring tools" query returned five names: Uptime.com, Pingdom, UptimeRobot, Hyperping and Better Stack. Uptime.com showed up here and nowhere else in the whole run, its single 1-of-6 appearance riding entirely on this one phrasing.
The "best free uptime monitoring tools" query returned a different set of four: UptimeRobot, Pulsetic, Hetrixtools and Uptime Kuma. Two of those, Pulsetic and Hetrixtools, appeared only on the free query and in none of the other five. Hyperping and Better Stack, both strong on the paid queries, dropped off the free list entirely.
The "most affordable uptime monitoring tools" query was the tightest of all six, returning just three names: UptimeRobot, Hyperping and Uptime Kuma. Every one of those three also appeared on other queries, so the affordability question surfaced no tool the others missed. It was pure consensus, the three the models agree are cheap.
The widest net was "uptime monitoring tools recommendations", which returned eight names in a single answer: Hyperping, Better Stack, UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Site24x7, StatusCake, Datadog and New Relic. Three of those, StatusCake, Datadog and New Relic, appeared only on this recommendations query and never on any of the other five.
The takeaway from the fan-out: six of the twelve tools (Uptime.com, Pulsetic, Hetrixtools, StatusCake, Datadog and New Relic) each rode in on a single phrasing. Half the field is invisible unless a buyer asks the exact question that surfaces it. Uptime Kuma, the open-source self-hosted option, is a clean example the other way: it appeared on the small-teams, should-I-use, free and affordable queries (4 of 6) but never on the bare "best" or the "recommendations" query.
Where the answers came from
Two community threads tied for the top source, each feeding 6 of the 6 answers: quora.com and reddit.com. Every single answer in the run leaned on at least one of them. That is the headline of the source map: community Q&A, not review directories, is what these models read for this category.
Right behind them sat lowendtalk.com, a hosting community forum, at 5 of 6, plus youtube.com at 5 of 6 and runcloud.io, a roundup blog, at 4 of 6. So the reading list is three community forums, one video platform and one roundup site, ahead of everything else.
Here is the insight that matters most for anyone selling in this category: two vendors' own domains were among the top sources, and both vendors got named. uptimerobot.com fed 5 of the 6 answers and UptimeRobot was named in all 6. hyperping.com fed 5 of the 6 answers and Hyperping was named in 5 of 6. The tools the models recommend most are the tools whose own pages the models were reading.
The pattern holds down the tail. Five more vendor domains each fed exactly one answer, and each of those vendors was named too: datadoghq.com, hetrixtools.com, pingdom.com, pulsetic.com and uptime.com. Pulsetic and Hetrixtools, the two "best free" one-timers, were each carried in by their own domain. Seven vendor domains appeared in the whole run, and all seven of those vendors were named. If your page is in the retrieval set, you are in the answer.
What did not appear is as telling as what did. Not one G2 or Capterra page fed any of the six answers. The review directories that dominate software-buying search were absent from the entire run. For uptime monitoring, ChatGPT and Gemini were reading Reddit, Quora, LowEndTalk, YouTube and vendor docs, not directory listings.
What this means if you sell an uptime tool
If you want ChatGPT and Gemini to name your tool, the lever is not market share, it is presence in these exact sources. Every one of the six answers was assembled from a live web search, and in this run 10 of the 12 source domains were either a community thread (Reddit, Quora, LowEndTalk) or a vendor's own site. Get cited in that set and you get named.
The two clearest cases prove it. UptimeRobot and Hyperping are named most because their own domains and the community threads about them are what the search pulled, with 5 of 6 answers each fed by their own site. A vendor with a great product but no Reddit thread, no Quora answer and no indexed doc page in the read set is simply not in the answer, however good the tool is. Pulsetic and Hetrixtools are unknown to most buyers, yet each got named on the free query because each had a page in the source list.
So the work is concrete: be in the Reddit and Quora threads that get cited (each fed all 6 answers here), get onto the roundup and video sources that rank (runcloud.io fed 4 of 6, youtube.com 5 of 6), and keep your own docs answer-ready, because seven different vendor domains showed up in this run and every one of those seven vendors was named. Your own page in the read set is worth a citation.
Where Glotier fits, honestly
Glotier does not sell uptime monitoring, so we are correctly absent from all six of these answers. We would not expect, or want, a model to name us here. But this page is exactly the thing we run for a customer in their own category: the same six-question fan-out, the same product count, the same source map, pointed at the words your buyers actually type.
The check is free, takes about a minute and needs no account. If you sell an uptime tool, you can see whether ChatGPT and Gemini name you, who they name instead, and which Reddit thread or vendor page is feeding the answer, which is the first thing you would want to fix.
The full list, counted
| Product | Named in | Share |
|---|---|---|
| UptimeRobot | 6 of 6 | 100% |
| Hyperping | 5 of 6 | 83% |
| Better Stack | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| Uptime Kuma | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| Pingdom | 2 of 6 | 33% |
| Site24x7 | 2 of 6 | 33% |
| Datadog | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| Hetrixtools | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| New Relic | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| Pulsetic | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| StatusCake | 1 of 6 | 17% |
| Uptime.com | 1 of 6 | 17% |
All twelve names above are distinct products, so each gets its own row: Uptime.com, UptimeRobot and Uptime Kuma are three different tools, not one brand counted three ways.