--- description: Review of StatusCake Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: StatusCake | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Monitoring Software](/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) > [StatusCake](/software/463706/StatusCake) # StatusCake Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/463706/StatusCake > StatusCake is built for the person who gets the call when something goes down. That might be a developer running a handful of client sites, an agency responsible for fifty of them, a small IT team with no dedicated operations function, or an e-commerce or SaaS business where an hour of downtime costs real revenue. More than 220,000 customers use StatusCake, from individual developers on the free plan through to teams at Audi, Mastercard, the UK government's Cabinet Office, Zendesk and the University of Cambridge. StatusCake watches your websites, APIs, SSL certificates, domains, page speed and servers from outside your own infrastructure, and tells you the moment something stops working. Checks run from global test locations as often as every 30 seconds. When something fails, alerts reach the people who need to know through email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, webhooks and more than fifteen other integrations. And when you need to tell customers what is happening, StatusCake Pages publishes a status page on your own domain. The reason most teams end up here rather than with a simple uptime checker is that outages are rarely just servers falling over. An SSL certificate expires quietly and takes the site down at two in the morning. A domain renewal is missed. Page load times creep up over three months until conversion quietly drops. Those are three different failures that a plain uptime check will never catch, and StatusCake monitors all of them from the same account. What teams tell us matters most is being able to trust the alerts. You decide how many confirmation servers have to agree before StatusCake calls a site down, up to three, each checking from a different server within the region you choose. Set that region to worldwide and confirmation comes from other countries. Set it to Europe and it comes from other European locations. Set it to Germany and it comes from other German servers in separate data centres and availability zones. So a brief fault at one location, or in one availability zone, does not wake anybody at three in the morning. Teams that get woken for nothing stop taking their alerts seriously, and that is the point at which monitoring quietly stops working. You do not have to talk to anyone to get started. Create a free account, add your first monitor, and you are running in a few minutes. No demo, no sales call, no procurement process unless you want one. The free plan covers 10 uptime monitors and does not expire. It grows with you rather than against you. Agencies and managed service providers use sub-accounts to keep clients separate, and white-label reporting to send reports under their own brand. Larger teams get audit logging, team access controls and dedicated test locations. Support is available to every customer, including everyone on the free plan, and the knowledge base covers setup, integrations and troubleshooting. Because the product is self-serve, most people never need to contact anyone. When you do, you are dealing with a company that has been doing this one thing since 2012, rather than a support queue at a much larger platform where monitoring is a side product. For regulated buyers, StatusCake is operated from the United Kingdom and provides documentation for vendor risk and information security assessments, including for financial entities working through DORA obligations. Enterprise customers also get service level agreements and account reviews. Free covers 10 uptime monitors at five-minute intervals. Superior adds 100 monitors at one-minute intervals, page speed and SSL monitoring at scale, reporting and SMS credits. Business moves to 300 monitors at 30-second intervals with 10 server monitors, nine team members and audit logging. Enterprise adds unlimited monitors, dedicated locations, service level agreements and account reviews. You can move up or down as your needs change. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 3 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: StatusCake - **Founded**: 2012 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$24.99 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Free: 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute checks, plus one page speed, one domain and one SSL monitor. No time limit and no card required. Superior: 100 uptime monitors at 1-minute checks, 15 page speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors, and 75 SMS credits. $24.99 per month, or $249.90 per year. Business: 300 uptime monitors at 30-second checks, 30 page speed, 120 domain, 100 SSL and 10 server monitors, 400 SMS credits and 10 team members. $79.99 per month, or $799.90 per year. Enterprise: quoted individually, with unlimited monitors, constant check rates and dedicated monitoring locations. Every paid plan can be trialled free for 7 days, without a credit card, and StatusCake offers a 30-day money-back guarantee from sign-up. Annual billing saves around 17%. Sign-up is self-service. Card details are added in the app, and plans can be upgraded, downgraded or cancelled there at any time, without contacting support. There is no sales call and no minimum contract on card-paid plans. Payment by invoice is available on Business annual plans and above. Invoices are payable within 30 days, and invoiced annual contracts renew unless notice is given ahead of the renewal date. Prices can be paid in USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, AUD, SEK, DKK or JPY. Support is available on every plan, including the free one. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more ## Features - API - Activity Dashboard - Alerting - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Availability Testing - CPU Monitoring - Configurable Alerts - Data Visualisation - Email Alerts - Event Logs - FTP Monitoring - Immediate Alert Notification - Incident Management - Location Insights - Mail Server Monitoring - Mobile Alerts - Monitoring - Multi-Channel Alerting - Multi-Location Monitoring ## Integrations (13 total) - Datadog - Discord - Mattermost - Microsoft Teams - OpsGenie - PagerDuty - PhoneCall - Pushover - SMS - Slack - Splunk On-Call - Telegram - Zapier ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) - [Server Monitoring Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4409/server-monitoring/software) ## Reviews ### "Great Website Performance Monitoring For Us" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *7 May 2020* | Public Policy | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Statuscake has been a great and cost effective way for us to have website monitoring. We just need something that works well and tells us if site is down and what speed it loads at. Of course Statuscake does more...but that is our need set. > > **Cons**: Not really. We are not technical so couldn't fully understand some of the advanced features we wouldn't try to use (no need). > > Reliable, accurate website monitoring cheaper than other offerings. ----- ### "Basic Uptime Monitoring Solution" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *19 April 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is very easy to set up various tests (pinging a URL, HTTP, HEAD, SSH, etc) with basic auth, response, and other options. You get a nice uptime report with all of that too. > > **Cons**: I do think the documentation can be a bit sparse if you are looking for specifics, but this rarely is an issue. > > It's very easy to set up as an uptime monitoring tool and simple to monitor your configurations. ----- ### "Get basic monitoring for free" — 5.0/5 > **Kunal** | *15 August 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Things that I like about StatusCake: 1) Free public reporting page. 2) Test uptime, page speed, domain, server and SSL. 3) See daily, weekly and monthly uptime history. 4) HTTP, Head, TCP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, Ping test types available. 5) Check for uptime every 30secs, 1 min, 5 mins, 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour or 24 hours. 6) Set your test location as random or of your choice from 43 locations from 30 countries. 7) Know the cause of downtime. 8) Get alerts by email or via integrations( phone call, telegram, twitter, slack, push notifications). > > **Cons**: Things that I like the least StatusCake: 1) Lacks real user monitoring. 2) Takes some time to setup different types of monitors. > > StatusCake helps me monitor uptime of my server and speeds for CDN. ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/463706/StatusCake) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data