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 |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 — 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 members | $0 — 10 uptime tests at 5-minute intervals, 1 page speed, 1 domain, 1 SSL test |
| Entry paid plan | Pro $29/mo — unlimited monitors & status pages, 25 members | Superior $24.49/mo ($20.41/mo annual) — 100 uptime tests, 1 team member |
| Scaling up | Pro is the top plan — unlimited monitors & status pages | Business $79.99/mo ($66.66/mo annual) — 300 uptime tests, 9 team members · Enterprise custom |
| Check frequency | 1-minute (Free and Pro) | 5-minute (Free) · 1-minute (Superior) · 30-second (Business) |
| 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 |
| Status pages | 1 (Free) / unlimited (Pro); custom domains | Included — its current pricing page states no per-plan page limit |
| Incident workflow | Incidents with states, timelines, notes and postmortems | — (alerting and reporting rather than an incident model) |
| On-call / escalation | Included on all plans, incl. Free | — (alert integrations; no schedules or escalation policies published) |
| Alert channels | Slack, Discord, email, SMS, voice call, web push | 15+ third-party integrations; 75 SMS credits (Superior), 400 (Business) |
| Telemetry / APM | OTLP logs, traces & metrics; Prometheus /metrics | Server resource monitoring; no OTLP logs or traces |
| Self-hosting | No (SaaS) | No (SaaS) |
StatusCake plan names, prices, monitor counts, intervals, team-member counts and SMS credits are quoted from StatusCake's own pricing page and its per-plan feature pages, and the 30-countries figure from statuscake.com. The pricing page was re-read 2026-09-15 and the prices above are that read; the per-plan feature pages and the 30-countries figure were read 2026-09-02. https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/ — that page renders a different currency depending on where it is read from: it showed us US dollars on 2026-09-15 and Canadian dollars on 2026-09-02, with no selector to choose between them. The figures above are the US-dollar ones as printed, and StatusCake's own FAQ lists USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, NZD, SGD and CAD as invoice currencies, so check the page for the figure in yours. Two claims are deliberately absent because its own pages disagree: how many status pages a plan includes (its status-page feature page still describes Bronze/Silver/Gold tiers the pricing page no longer sells) and the Business plan's page-speed test count. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans.
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?
Because its pricing page has no currency selector and serves a different currency depending on where you read it from. It showed us Canadian dollars on 2 September 2026 and US dollars on 15 September 2026, for the same plans. The figures here are the US-dollar ones as printed on the later read; StatusCake's own FAQ says it invoices in USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, NZD, SGD and CAD, so open statuscake.com/pricing to see the figure in yours.
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.