UptimeRobot vs StatusCake: Which Uptime Monitor to Choose
A straight comparison of UptimeRobot and StatusCake on price, check types, regions and status pages, plus where Uptimehub fits if you want monitoring and a branded status page in one flat per-monitor plan.
Checked from regions with auto-retry. No single-location false alarms.
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api.example.com returned no response from all 6 regions. Auto-retry confirmed the outage, then we alerted your team.
api.example.com is back up. The incident is logged to your status page history automatically.
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The short answer
UptimeRobot and StatusCake are both long-running, affordable uptime monitors, and the choice usually comes down to two things: seats and monitor types. StatusCake is cheaper once you scale, with its Superior plan around $24.49 a month covering 100 monitors at one-minute checks and up to 2 team members, and it spans more check types including page speed, domain, and server monitoring. UptimeRobot is the simpler, more familiar tool, with a Solo plan at $12 a month on annual billing and a Team plan at $39 for 100 monitors, though both bundle a fixed number of login seats and charge $15 a month for each extra one. One practical difference matters for businesses: UptimeRobot restricted its free plan to non-commercial use in October 2024, while StatusCake still allows business use on its free tier. Pick StatusCake for broader check types at a lower price per monitor, UptimeRobot for the simplest setup. Uptimehub is a third option that bundles monitoring and a branded status page in one flat per-monitor plan, never per seat, with checks from six regions and auto-retry on by default.
Side by side
UptimeRobot vs StatusCake
| Dimension | UptimeRobot | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid plan | Around $8/mo (Solo) | Around $24.49/mo (Superior) |
| Monitors at that tier | 10 | 100 |
| Fastest check interval | 60 seconds | 30 seconds (Business) |
| Team seats included | 3 on Team, extra seats billed | Up to 2 on Superior, 10 on Business |
| Commercial use on free plan | Not allowed | Allowed |
| Check types beyond uptime | Keyword, DNS | Page speed, domain, SSL, server |
| Status pages | Yes | Yes |
Verdict
The bottom line
Pick StatusCake if you want more monitors and more check types for less money, and you value a free tier you can legitimately use for a business. Pick UptimeRobot if you want the simplest possible setup, a small number of monitors, and a low entry price. Both cap the number of people who can log in, StatusCake at 2 seats on Superior and 10 on Business, UptimeRobot at 5 on Team with extras at $15 a month, and both treat the status page as a feature of a monitoring tool rather than a product in its own right. If you want monitoring and a branded public status page in one plan, priced per monitor so inviting the whole team or your clients costs nothing extra, Uptimehub covers HTTP, keyword, API, ping, TCP, SSL, DNS, and cron heartbeat checks from six regions with auto-retry by default.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask about UptimeRobot and StatusCake
Both are affordable, self-serve uptime monitors and they overlap heavily. The real split is what each one counts. UptimeRobot sells one pool of monitors per tier, while StatusCake splits its allowance into five separate pools: uptime, page speed, domain, SSL and server monitors, each with its own cap and its own check interval. StatusCake adds page speed testing and domain checks that most pure uptime tools skip. UptimeRobot has the more generous free tier, 50 monitors against 10. The gap is narrow enough that free-tier limits usually decide it.
At the 100 monitor tier, yes, and both now quote US dollars so the comparison is direct. Re-read in August 2026, StatusCake Superior is $24.49 a month billed monthly or $20.41 billed annually for 100 monitors at 1 minute checks, while UptimeRobot Team is $46 billed monthly or $39 billed annually for 100 monitors at 30 second checks. StatusCake is around 47 percent cheaper at that tier and UptimeRobot checks twice as fast, so you are paying the difference for detection speed.
Yes, covering 10 uptime monitors at 5 minute checks. That is enough for a personal site or a small stack, but it is five times tighter on monitor count than UptimeRobot's free tier of 50. If the free plan is your deciding factor, UptimeRobot wins clearly.
Yes, and it is the clearest reason to pick it over UptimeRobot. StatusCake runs page speed tests alongside uptime checks, so you can track load time trends rather than only availability. If you care about performance regressions as well as outages, that saves buying a second tool.
UptimeRobot, by a wide margin on monitor count: 50 free monitors against StatusCake's 10. Both cap checks at 5 minutes on the free plan, so detection speed is identical. If you need to watch many endpoints at zero cost, UptimeRobot is the obvious starting point.
Last updated August 2026
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