StatusCake vs Pingdom

From €16.66 per month (Superior, billed annually; €19.99 monthly)

From $18 per month (10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check, 50 SMS; $16.50 annual)

SSL and domain expiry monitoring included on paid plans, which prevents a genuinely common outage cause.

Priced by a calculator rather than named tiers: 50 uptime checks run about $78/month and 100 about $149, so the per-check rate falls slowly with volume. Transaction checks and Real User Monitoring are priced separately from basic uptime checks and add up.

Free plan with unlimited uptime tests at 5-minute intervals.

30-day trial.

Established

StatusCake · since 2012

Widely used

SolarWinds · since 2007

• SSL and domain expiry alerts prevent an entire class of self-inflicted outage.
• Many test locations even on cheaper plans.
• Simple and reliable.

• Very large global probe network with a long operating history.
• Simple to set up for basic availability monitoring.
• Combines synthetic checks with real-user monitoring.

• No scripted browser journeys.
• Interface is functional rather than pleasant.
• Limited integration with observability platforms.

• Feature development has been slow under SolarWinds ownership.
• Transaction-check authoring is dated compared to code-first alternatives.
• Pricing is no longer competitive against newer entrants.

Small teams wanting broad availability coverage cheaply.

Organisations wanting an established name for straightforward uptime monitoring.