StatusCake vs UptimeRobot
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
From €16.66 per month (Superior, billed annually; €19.99 monthly)
Free tierFrom €9 per month (Solo, billed annually; €10 monthly)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
SSL and domain expiry monitoring included on paid plans, which prevents a genuinely common outage cause.
One of the best free tiers in infrastructure tooling, and paid plans are still inexpensive: Solo €9, Team €35 and Scale €65 a month on annual billing. Solo buys the 60-second interval.
Free tier
Free plan with unlimited uptime tests at 5-minute intervals.
50 monitors at 5-minute intervals, free forever, with SSL and domain-expiry checks and one status page.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
StatusCake · since 2012
Widely used
UptimeRobot · since 2010
Strengths
- SSL and domain expiry alerts prevent an entire class of self-inflicted outage.
- Many test locations even on cheaper plans.
- Simple and reliable.
- Free tier covers what most small projects actually need.
- Five-minute setup with no configuration to learn.
- Status pages included even on lower tiers.
Limitations
- No scripted browser journeys.
- Interface is functional rather than pleasant.
- Limited integration with observability platforms.
- No browser-based transaction monitoring — availability only.
- Basic alerting logic; expect some noise from transient failures.
- Limited reporting and no observability integration.
Best for
Small teams wanting broad availability coverage cheaply.
Side projects, small businesses and anyone who currently has no monitoring at all.
All of these integrate with: Slack, PagerDuty, Webhooks, Zapier.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.