StatusCake pricing and cost: every plan, all five separate monitor pools, and where the rate per monitor runs backwards
StatusCake meters five different kinds of monitor separately, and the plan you need is set by whichever pool you exhaust first. Put your real counts in and the calculator picks the cheapest plan that fits all five, checks it against the seat cap, and prices the same requirement on a flat per-monitor plan.
StatusCake cost calculator
LiveRates read from StatusCake's own pricing page in August 2026. All five monitor pools are capped independently, so the plan shown is the cheapest one that satisfies every pool at once, not just your uptime count.
How much does StatusCake cost?
StatusCake costs $24.49 a month for Superior and $79.99 a month for Business, or $20.41 and $66.66 a month billed annually, which the vendor prices as two months free. Superior covers 100 uptime monitors at 1 minute checks and Business covers 300 at 30 seconds. There is a permanently free tier with 10 uptime monitors at 5 minute checks. The detail that catches buyers out is that StatusCake does not sell one pool of monitors. Uptime, page speed, domain, SSL and server monitors each carry a separate cap, and three of those five pools cover a smaller share of your sites on Business than they do on Superior.
Every figure on this page was read on 30 August 2026 from StatusCake's own pricing page. Which number is monthly and which is annual was settled by the class names on the price elements rather than by their position, and then checked against StatusCake's own statement that annual billing gives two months free. Both readings agree: $24.49 times ten months, divided over twelve, is $20.41.
The short version
- Entry price: $24.49 a month, or $20.41 paid annually.
- Free tier: genuine and permanent, 10 monitors at 5 minute checks.
- The meter: five separate monitor pools, plus a hard cap on logins.
- The catch: the pricier plan costs 8.9 percent more per uptime monitor.
StatusCake price list, every plan, verified August 2026
Three published plans and a custom fourth. The annual column is the per-month rate you pay when you commit for a year, and the annual total is what actually leaves the account.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Annual total | Uptime monitors | Interval | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | 10 | 5 minutes | 1 |
| Superior | $24.49 | $20.41 | $244.92 | 100 | 1 minute | 2 |
| Business | $79.99 | $66.66 | $799.92 | 300 | 30 seconds | 10 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Limitless | Custom | Custom |
Annual billing saves 16.7 percent, which is $48.96 a year on Superior and $159.96 on Business. Enterprise is described on the price list as building a custom plan with bolt-ons, with limitless monitors and a constant check rate, and carries no published figure.
The five monitor pools, which is the part the headline price hides
Almost every comparison of StatusCake quotes one number, the uptime monitor count, and stops there. The plan you actually need is set by whichever of five independent pools you exhaust first, and they are not interchangeable. A hundred uptime monitors does not let you watch a hundred certificates.
| Allowance | Free | Superior | Business | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitors | 10 | 100 | 300 | The headline number, and the only one most comparisons quote. |
| Uptime interval | 5 minutes | 1 minute | 30 seconds | Average detection delay is half the interval: 150 s, 30 s, 15 s. |
| Page speed monitors | 1 | 15 | 30 | Load time trends, which most pure uptime tools do not offer at all. |
| Page speed interval | 24 hours | 15 minutes | 5 minutes | Daily on the free tier is a trend line, not an alert. |
| Domain monitors | 1 | 50 | 120 | Expiry, blacklist and record change watching. |
| Domain interval | 7 days | 7 days | 5 days | Unchanged between Free and Superior. The upgrade buys count, not speed. |
| SSL monitors | 1 | 50 | 100 | Certificate expiry, mixed content and a configuration score. |
| SSL interval | 24 hours | 30 minutes | 10 minutes | The one pool where Business genuinely triples the polling rate. |
| Server monitors | Not included | 3 | 10 | Agent based CPU, memory and disk thresholds. |
| Free SMS credits | Not included | 75 | 400 | One credit per SMS alert sent. More can be bought as needed. |
| Team members | 1 | 2 | 10 | Total logins including the account owner. No extra-seat rate is published. |
Adding the pools together, Superior carries 218 monitors of all kinds for $24.49 and Business carries 560 for $79.99. On that basis Superior is $0.112 per monitor and Business is $0.143, so the pattern holds however you count it.
What each StatusCake plan unlocks, beyond the monitor counts
These rows are shown on StatusCake's price list as ticks and crosses rather than as text, so they are easy to skim past. Two of them decide real purchases: white label reporting arrives at $24.49, which is unusually early for this market, and payment by invoice does not arrive until $79.99.
| Feature | Free | Superior | Business | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unbranded public reporting | No | Yes | Yes | Removes StatusCake branding from the page your customers see. |
| White label reporting | No | Yes | Yes | Included from $24.49, which is cheaper than most rivals gate this behind. |
| Custom test locations | No | Yes | Yes | Choose where checks run from rather than accepting the default. |
| SSL expiry and mixed content alerts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Available even on the free tier, though only for 1 certificate. |
| Domain expiry, blacklist and record alerts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also on the free tier, again capped at 1 domain. |
| Integrations for alerting | Yes | Yes | Yes | More than 15 third party destinations on every tier. |
| Custom template emails | No | No | Yes | Business only. Superior cannot rebrand the alert emails themselves. |
| Customisable dashboards | No | No | Yes | Business only. |
| Audit log and team tools | No | No | Yes | Business only, which matters if you need change tracking for compliance. |
| Payment by invoice | No | No | Yes | Business only. Card payment on Superior, which some finance teams refuse. |
For an agency the white label row is the important one. Several competitors treat removing their branding as a premium add-on, and one of them charges $250 per page for it. StatusCake includes it on its entry paid plan. If unbranded client reporting is what you are shopping for, price Superior before you price anything else.
Four places where paying StatusCake more gets you proportionally less
None of these are errors on StatusCake's part and none of them make it a bad tool. They are consequences of bundling five meters into two tiers, and they are worth knowing before you assume the bigger plan is the better rate.
01
Cost per uptime monitor rises when you upgrade
Superior is $24.49 for 100 monitors, which is $0.2449 each. Business is $79.99 for 300, which is $0.2666 each. Stepping up to the bigger plan makes every monitor 8.9 percent more expensive, not less. The same gap holds on annual billing, $0.2041 against $0.2222. You are buying the 30 second interval and the extra seats, and paying a premium per monitor to get them.
02
SSL coverage falls from half your sites to a third
Superior gives 100 uptime monitors and 50 SSL monitors, so you can watch certificates on half the sites you are watching for downtime. Business gives 300 uptime monitors and 100 SSL monitors, which is a third. In absolute terms Superior leaves 50 sites without certificate expiry monitoring and Business leaves 200. The more you spend, the wider that gap gets.
03
Domain and page speed coverage fall the same way
Domain monitors cover 50 percent of your uptime monitors on Superior and 40 percent on Business. Page speed covers 15 percent and then 10 percent. Only server monitoring holds roughly flat, 3 percent against 3.3 percent. So three of the four secondary pools cover a smaller proportion of your estate on the more expensive plan, which is the opposite of what a tier ladder is supposed to do.
04
The domain check interval does not improve at all between Free and Superior
Domain monitors poll every 7 days on the free tier and every 7 days on Superior. The $24.49 buys you 49 more domain monitors and not one hour of extra freshness. It only moves on Business, and only to 5 days. If domain expiry is the thing you are actually buying, price that carefully, because a 7 day window can miss a renewal deadline.
StatusCake against Uptimehub, including everywhere they are cheaper
We sell a competing product, so here is the honest version. StatusCake undercuts us on sticker price at most monitor counts, and at 10 monitors or fewer their free tier beats anything we charge for. The table below picks the cheapest qualifying plan on each ladder and names the winner, including when that is not us.
| Requirement | StatusCake | Uptimehub | Cheaper | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 monitors | Free, $0 | Starter, $12 | StatusCake | Their free tier covers it outright. Use theirs. |
| 10 monitors | Free, $0 | Starter, $12 | StatusCake | Still free, at 5 minute checks. We check every minute at $12. |
| 20 monitors | Superior, $24.49 | Starter, $12 | Uptimehub | The free tier runs out at 10 and the next step is $24.49. |
| 50 monitors | Superior, $24.49 | Pro, $39 | StatusCake | Cheaper, at 1 minute checks against our 30 seconds. |
| 100 monitors | Superior, $24.49 | Pro, $39 | StatusCake | 37 percent cheaper. Two seats against our unlimited. |
| 150 monitors | Business, $79.99 | Business, $99 | StatusCake | Cheaper on the sticker, 10 seats against our unlimited. |
| 300 monitors | Business, $79.99 | Business, $99 | StatusCake | Their ceiling, our midpoint. $0.267 against $0.248 per monitor. |
| 400 monitors | Enterprise quote | Business, $99 | Uptimehub | Above 300 StatusCake stops publishing a price. |
Buy StatusCake when
You want page speed testing and server agents alongside uptime from one vendor, your team is one or two people, and price per month is the deciding number. On raw cost at 50 to 300 monitors they are hard to beat, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Their free tier is also a genuinely usable place to start.
Buy Uptimehub when
More than two people need to log in, you want SSL and DNS checks on every site rather than on a capped subset, or you want a branded status page on your own domain included rather than treated as reporting. Our monitors are one pool, so a monitor is a monitor whatever it checks, and seats are unlimited on every plan.
If you are still shortlisting, the uptime monitoring pricing comparison puts every flat-rate vendor in one table, and the StatusCake alternative page covers the migration question rather than the arithmetic.
StatusCake pricing questions
How much does StatusCake cost?
StatusCake costs $24.49 a month for Superior and $79.99 a month for Business paid month to month, or $20.41 and $66.66 a month paid annually, which comes to $244.92 and $799.92 a year. Superior includes 100 uptime monitors at 1 minute checks and 2 team seats. Business includes 300 monitors at 30 seconds and 10 seats. A free tier covers 10 monitors at 5 minute checks, and Enterprise is quoted on request.
Does StatusCake have a free plan?
Yes, and it is permanent rather than a trial. The free tier covers 10 uptime monitors at 5 minute checks, plus one page speed monitor, one domain monitor and one SSL monitor. The limit that matters is the interval: at 5 minutes the average detection delay for an outage is 2.5 minutes, and a short blip can finish before a check ever runs. It is a fair deal for a personal site or a staging box.
Is StatusCake cheaper than UptimeRobot?
At the 100 monitor tier, yes. StatusCake Superior is $24.49 a month month-to-month or $20.41 annually. UptimeRobot Team is $46 month-to-month or $39 annually for the same 100 monitors. StatusCake is roughly 47 percent cheaper on annual billing. UptimeRobot checks twice as fast at 30 seconds against 1 minute, and its free tier is far larger at 50 monitors against 10.
How many monitors does StatusCake give you?
It depends which kind you mean, because there are five separate pools rather than one. Superior gives 100 uptime, 15 page speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors. Business gives 300, 30, 120, 100 and 10. They are not interchangeable, so 100 uptime monitors does not mean you can watch 100 certificates. That is the single most common misreading of this price list.
Why does StatusCake cost more per monitor on the bigger plan?
Because the price triples while the monitor count triples but the check interval also doubles in speed and the seat count multiplies by five. Superior works out at $0.2449 per uptime monitor and Business at $0.2666, so each monitor is 8.9 percent more expensive on the larger plan. If you need the 30 second interval or more than 2 logins, that premium is what it costs. If you only need more monitors, it is worth pricing a flat rate alternative.
Does StatusCake charge per user?
Not as an add-on rate. Instead each plan caps how many people can log in: 1 on Free, 2 on Superior and 10 on Business, counting the account owner. The pricing page does not publish a price for buying an extra seat, so the practical answer when you outgrow the cap is to move up a plan or talk to them about Enterprise, which is described as building a custom plan with bolt-ons.
Is StatusCake annual billing worth it?
It is a straight 16.7 percent saving with no other trade-off, because StatusCake gives two months free on an annual commitment. Superior drops from $24.49 to $20.41 a month and Business from $79.99 to $66.66, so the annual totals are $244.92 and $799.92 against $293.88 and $959.88 paid monthly. The saving is $48.96 and $159.96 a year respectively.
What is a good StatusCake alternative?
It depends on what pushed you off it. If the seat cap is the problem, or you need SSL and domain coverage across every site rather than a fraction of them, a flat per-monitor plan fits better. If you want a broader incident management and on-call platform, Better Stack is closer. If you want to self-host and pay nothing, Uptime Kuma is the honest answer. If you simply want more monitors for less money, StatusCake is already one of the cheapest options in this market and moving is unlikely to save you anything.
Keep costing the decision
Uptime monitoring pricing comparison
Every flat rate vendor side by side, with the included allowances rather than the headline number.
UptimeRobot pricing
The closest competitor on price, where the first paid plan holds fewer monitors than the free one.
Site24x7 pricing
Another ladder that runs backwards, this time on monitoring locations and status pages.
Pingdom pricing
No named plans at all, just a 22 step quantity ladder where three meters fight to set your tier.
SSL certificate checker
Check expiry, chain and trust on any host, which is the pool StatusCake caps hardest.
Uptimehub pricing
Four plans, published in full, with every check type and a branded status page in all of them.
One pool of monitors, not five
Every check type counts against the same allowance, seats are unlimited on every plan, and a branded status page is included from $9 a month. If two seats and a capped SSL pool genuinely suit your team, StatusCake is cheaper and we have said so on this page.