StatusCake alternative: Uptimely vs StatusCake
StatusCake is a long-established website monitoring service with an unusually wide catalogue of check types — uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server monitoring — tested from what it advertises as 30 different countries. Uptimely covers a narrower set of checks and a wider operations layer: uptime monitoring plus status pages, the incident lifecycle, on-call escalation and OpenTelemetry ingestion. This page compares them on the figures each company publishes, including where those figures are awkward.
Where StatusCake is strong
The spread of check types is the real draw: one subscription covers uptime, page-speed tests, SSL expiry, domain expiry and server resource monitoring. Uptimely has no page-speed testing at all, and its own server monitor reports from Linux hosts only. StatusCake's free plan matches Uptimely's on monitor count, with 10 uptime tests, and its Business plan runs checks every 30 seconds, faster than anything Uptimely offers. It also tests from 30 different countries, which is 29 more than Uptimely, and if you need to tell a regional outage from a global one that single line matters more than everything below it.
Where Uptimely differs
What Uptimely adds is the layer after the alert. Public status pages with subscribers and custom domains, incidents with states and timelines, on-call duty policies with escalation rules, scheduled maintenance and OTLP logs, traces and metrics are on every Uptimely plan including Free, while StatusCake's published plan sheets describe alert integrations rather than schedules or escalation policies. Team size is the other gap: StatusCake lists 1 team member on Superior and 9 on Business, where Uptimely's Free plan carries 3 and Pro carries 25 for $29/month with unlimited monitors and unlimited status pages.
| Feature | Uptimely | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling up | Pro is the top plan — unlimited monitors & status pages | Business — 300 uptime tests, 9 team members; check regional pricing for the amount and currency |
| Check types | Uptime, API, ping (TCP port 80), port, DNS, SSL, domain, external status page, heartbeat (cron), Linux server (CPU, memory, disk), sandboxed scripts | Uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server resource monitoring |
| Probe locations | One vantage point | Advertises testing from 30 different countries |
| Incident workflow | Incidents with states, timelines, notes and postmortems | — (alerting and reporting rather than an incident model) |
| Telemetry / APM | OTLP logs, traces & metrics; Prometheus /metrics | Server resource monitoring; no OTLP logs or traces |
| Self-hosting | No (SaaS) | No (SaaS) |
StatusCake monitor counts, intervals, team-member counts and SMS credits are quoted from https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/, fetched 2026-10-22. The page varies by region and did not identify which dollar currency our response used, so a current USD price is deliberately absent. Its FAQ lists USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, NZD, SGD and CAD as invoice currencies. Status pages are sold separately at https://www.statuscake.com/status-page/ under Bronze, Silver and Gold; their limits are not monitoring-plan inclusions. The 30-countries figure was read from statuscake.com on 2026-09-02. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans.
Pricing and plan limits (October 2026)
Compare every vendor’s uptime monitoring pricing. Each verified cell links to its source and check date.
| Vendor | Free tier | Entry paid plan (USD/month) | Minimum uptime check interval | Monitors included | Status pages | On-call and alerting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UptimelyHosted plans per project. Pro includes 25 members. Aggregate outbound check budgets: 10/minute on Free and 5000/minute on Pro. SMS/voice quotas are not published. | Yes — $0; 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 membersSource · | Pro $29/month USD, billed monthlySource · | Free: 60 secondsSource · Paid: 60 secondsSource · | Free: 10Source · Paid: UnlimitedSource · | Free: 1; 1000 subscribers/pageSource · Paid: Unlimited; 25000 subscribers/pageSource · | Incidents, alerts & on-call on Free; Everything in Free on Pro. SMS/voice quotas not published.Source · |
| StatusCakeRegional currencies; a USD monthly price could not be confirmed. Status-page allowances are not mapped to Free/Superior monitoring plans. | Yes — 10 uptime monitorsSource · | — not published | Free: 5 minutesSource · Paid: 1 minute (Superior)Source · | Free: 10 uptime monitorsSource · Paid: 100 uptime monitors (Superior)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Superior: 75 SMS credits/month; email and 15+ integrations. Voice and escalation limits not published.Source · |
Uptimely's Free plan has 10 monitors, 1 status page and 1-minute checks, with no credit card. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial.
Start free →Is Uptimely a good StatusCake alternative?
Uptimely is a good alternative if what you want around the checks is an operations layer: public status pages with subscribers and custom domains, incidents with states and timelines, on-call duty policies with escalation, and a bigger team on one plan. If what you want is page-speed testing or testing from many countries, StatusCake covers ground Uptimely does not.
Which one checks more often?
StatusCake, on its Business plan: it runs uptime tests every 30 seconds, where Uptimely checks every minute on both Free and Pro. At the free tier the position reverses — StatusCake's free plan checks every 5 minutes and Uptimely's checks every minute — and at StatusCake's Superior tier the two are level at 1 minute.
Why might StatusCake's prices look different when you open its page?
StatusCake serves regional currencies and says it invoices in USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, NZD, SGD and CAD. The response fetched on 22 October 2026 displayed dollar amounts without identifying which dollar currency they used, so this comparison does not quote them as USD or convert them. Open statuscake.com/pricing to check the current amount and billing period for your region.
Does StatusCake include on-call scheduling or escalation?
Not that it publishes. Its plan pages describe alert integrations — 15 or more third-party destinations, plus SMS credits — rather than on-call schedules, rotations or escalation policies. Uptimely includes on-call duty policies with escalation rules on every plan, including Free.
Does Uptimely do page-speed or server monitoring?
Server monitoring, yes. Page speed, no. Uptimely's Server monitor is fed by a small shell script you run on a Linux host, which reports CPU, memory, disk, load and running processes; this version supports Linux only. Uptimely has no page-speed testing. Its other checks are HTTP/API, ping (a TCP connection to port 80, not ICMP), port, DNS, SSL, domain, external status pages and heartbeats, and its telemetry side ingests OpenTelemetry logs, traces and metrics your own services send. If page-speed tests are on your list, StatusCake has them and Uptimely does not, and Uptimely cannot watch a server that does not run Linux.
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