StatusCake review
Broad monitoring coverage with a free plan and checks from 43 locations in 30 countries.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
StatusCake brings website and endpoint uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains, and server monitoring into one service. Its geographic reach—43 locations in 30 countries—makes it a fit for teams that want checks from multiple regions, while historical reports, dashboards, and configurable alert routing serve individuals, small businesses, DevOps teams, enterprises, and public-sector organizations. It is broader than a basic uptime checker, with domain expiration, blacklist and DNS record monitoring alongside server RAM, CPU, and disk thresholds.
The plan structure gives small sites a no-cost starting point, but the Free plan is deliberately limited: it includes 10 uptime monitors with five-minute test intervals, plus one page-speed, one domain, and one SSL monitor. Superior costs $20.41 per month when billed annually and raises the allowance to 100 uptime monitors with one-minute intervals; it also includes 15 page-speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL, and three server monitors. Business is $66.66 per month on annual billing, with 300 uptime monitors, 30-second intervals, and larger allowances across page-speed, domain, SSL, and server monitoring. Enterprise adds limitless monitors, a constant check rate, dedicated uptime and page-speed locations, and service-creditable SLAs at custom pricing.
Alert delivery is a notable fit for teams with established incident workflows: options include email, SMS, phone calls, webhooks, and integrations such as Datadog, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Slack, Discord, and Microsoft Teams. API and Terraform workflow integration can also suit teams that manage monitoring through technical workflows. The range of checks and channels may be more than a team needs if it only wants a simple availability ping, and the free plan’s five-minute cadence may not suit close watching. Choose StatusCake when geographic coverage and several monitor types matter; consider a narrower tool if you only need basic uptime checks.
StatusCake pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Monitors uptime from 43 locations in 30 countries.
- Tracks uptime, page speed, SSL, domains, and server thresholds.
- Routes alerts through integrations, phone calls, SMS, and webhooks.
- Where it doesn't
- Free plan limits uptime checks to 10 monitors at five-minute intervals.
- Superior costs $20.41 per month with annual billing.
- Enterprise uses custom pricing, so costs require a quote.
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