StatusCake Pricing 2026: Plans, Costs, and What You Actually Get

StatusCake launched in 2012 and is one of a handful of uptime monitoring tools with a genuinely useful free plan. It's UK-based, independently operated, and used by tens of thousands of teams. The product covers website uptime, SSL monitoring, domain expiry, page speed, and server monitoring across three paid tiers.

This article breaks down what you get at each price point, where the limitations are, and how StatusCake compares to cheaper alternatives.

StatusCake Plans at a Glance

StatusCake's current pricing structure has one free tier and three paid tiers:

Annual billing discounts are available. Monthly billing runs roughly 20% higher on paid plans.

What Each Plan Includes

Free Plan

Ten uptime monitors at 5-minute check intervals. The free plan includes:

• HTTP/HTTPS uptime checks from global test nodes
• Email alerting only
• Basic on-call scheduling
• Public status page

The 5-minute interval is the standard floor for free monitoring tools — UptimeRobot's free tier matches it. It's adequate for catching extended outages. A site down for 4 minutes may never trigger an alert.

Ten monitors runs out fast. A typical SaaS with a production API, staging environment, a handful of external endpoints, and SSL monitoring on two domains hits 10 before accounting for any redundancy.

Team — $24.49/month

Three hundred uptime monitors at 1-minute intervals. The Team plan adds:

• SSL certificate monitoring (with expiry alerts)
• Domain expiry monitoring
• Page speed monitoring (6 tests/day)
• Server monitoring (5 servers)
• SMS and push notification alerts
• Integrations: PagerDuty, Slack, Opsgenie, webhook
• Maintenance windows
• 13 monitoring locations globally

At $24.49/month, the Team plan is the most common entry point for small engineering teams. Three hundred monitors covers most products comfortably. The 1-minute interval is the category standard at this price point, though Vantaj offers 30-second intervals starting at $9/month.

Business — $66.47/month

Eight hundred monitors at 30-second check intervals. The Business plan adds:

• 30-second check intervals (the main upgrade over Team)
• Server monitoring for 10 servers
• 24 monitoring locations globally
• Higher SMS allowance
• Priority support

The 30-second interval is where faster detection starts to matter. The difference between a 1-minute and 30-second interval during an incident is the difference between a 1-minute and 2-minute maximum detection gap. For SLAs with tight MTTD requirements, this matters. For most teams, 1-minute is sufficient.

At $66.47/month, the Business plan sits between Team and Enterprise. The main buyers are teams that have outgrown 300 monitors or need the faster check interval.

What StatusCake Does Well

Free Tier With Real Value

The free plan is one of the more honest in the category. Ten monitors at 5-minute intervals is enough to monitor a small production site. The limit is real, but it's not artificially restrictive — you can evaluate the product and migrate later.

Page Speed Monitoring

StatusCake bundles page speed testing from multiple locations into paid plans. The reports show load time, page size, and waterfall data. Most competitors in this price range don't include this — it's an add-on or separate product elsewhere.

Domain and SSL Expiry Monitoring

Both domain expiry and SSL certificate expiry are included in Team and Business plans. Getting a page down alert 30 days before a domain expires is the kind of feature that saves incidents, not just monitors them.

Price Transparency

StatusCake publishes its pricing openly with no "contact sales for pricing" gating on Team and Business plans. You can evaluate, compare, and sign up without speaking to anyone.

Where StatusCake Falls Short

Free Plan is Too Limited for Real Monitoring

Ten monitors at 5-minute intervals works for a personal project. A production environment with an API, staging, external dependencies, and SSL needs significantly more. The free-to-paid jump to $24.49/month is a meaningful step.

1-Minute Intervals on Team Plan

The team plan caps at 1-minute intervals. Vantaj charges $9/month for 30-second intervals on all paid plans. For teams where detection speed matters, StatusCake's Team plan costs 2.7x more for slower checks.

Limited Monitoring Locations on Team

Thirteen monitoring locations on the Team plan may miss regional coverage gaps for teams with a global user base. The Business plan's 24 locations covers more ground, but the premium is steep.

No Multi-Region Consensus Alerting

StatusCake checks from multiple locations, but its default alerting doesn't require agreement from multiple nodes before firing. A single probe anomaly can generate a false positive. Tools like Vantaj and Better Stack require consensus from multiple regions before alerting, which reduces noise without configuration.

StatusCake vs. Alternatives: Price Comparison

StatusCake's free tier is more limited than UptimeRobot's (10 vs. 50 monitors), and paid plans start at a higher price than Vantaj or UptimeRobot for equivalent or slower check intervals.

Annual vs. Monthly

Annual billing saves roughly 20% on Team and Business plans. There's no lock-in penalty beyond the contract term. The free plan has no billing at all.

Who StatusCake Is For

StatusCake makes sense for:

• Teams that want SSL and domain monitoring bundled — paying separately elsewhere adds up
• Small teams testing the waters — the free plan works for basic evaluation
• Teams that need page speed data alongside uptime — not common at this price in competing tools

StatusCake is harder to justify for:

• Teams that prioritize 30-second detection on a budget — Vantaj delivers that at $9/month
• Teams with large free monitoring needs — UptimeRobot's 50-monitor free tier is more generous
• Teams that need server monitoring without a paid uptime tool — the server monitoring is an add-on to the uptime product, not a standalone product

The Bottom Line

StatusCake is a solid mid-market monitoring tool with a genuine free tier and clear pricing. The Team plan at $24.49/month covers most small teams. The Business plan at $66.47/month is worth it if you need 30-second intervals or have outgrown 300 monitors.

Where StatusCake loses the comparison is on entry price vs. check interval. Vantaj delivers 30-second intervals starting at $9/month. For teams where detection speed matters and budget is tight, Vantaj does the core job better at lower cost. For teams that want the full bundle — uptime, SSL, domain, page speed, server monitoring — StatusCake's pricing is competitive.