StatusCake vs Uptime.com Pricing With SMS Alerts and Monitor Cost

StatusCake is cheaper than Uptime.com from about 50 monitors up to 300. Superior costs $24.49 a month for 100 monitors and Business $79.99 for 300, where Uptime.com charges $75 for 100 checks and $225 for 300. Under 50 monitors Uptime.com is the cheaper paid option, starting at $9 a month for 10 checks, and above 300 StatusCake stops publishing prices while Uptime.com keeps going at about $0.75 a check.

The sticker price is only half the decision. The two tools handle text and phone alerts in opposite ways, count users differently and sell status pages separately, and those details decide the real monthly bill for a team that gets paged. StatusCake figures below were read from statuscake.com/pricing on October 15, 2026, with alert behavior from its knowledge base. Uptime.com figures come from the tier data behind the calculator on uptime.com/pricing, read on October 14, 2026.

StatusCake vs Uptime.com at a glance

Neither one is the cheap option in every case. StatusCake wins on raw monitor count per dollar in the middle of the range. Uptime.com wins at the very bottom, at the very top, and on seats.

Which is cheaper, StatusCake or Uptime.com?

Here is the smallest plan that covers each estate on monthly billing, with the yearly price as a monthly figure in brackets.

At 100 monitors StatusCake is about a third of the price. At 300 it is roughly $80 against $225. The comparison flips at the edges. A team that needs 25 checks at one minute intervals pays $19 on Uptime.com and $24.49 on StatusCake. A business with 10 sites that is fine with 5 minute checks pays nothing on StatusCake Free.

Above 300 monitors only Uptime.com gives you a number without a sales call. That matters more than it sounds for agencies and SaaS teams that add endpoints every month, because the price of the next 50 checks is known in advance.

How many users do you get on each?

This is where Uptime.com claws back a lot of the gap. Every Uptime.com tier includes unlimited users, so the $9 plan and the $750 plan both let the whole team log in.

StatusCake Superior includes one team member. A second person who needs to see the dashboard, acknowledge alerts or edit tests pushes you to Business at $79.99, which includes nine. For a team of three on 80 monitors, the honest comparison is therefore StatusCake Business at $79.99 against Uptime.com's 100 check tier at $75. At that size Uptime.com is the cheaper of the two, and it also keeps 24 months of check history.

How SMS and phone call alerts are paid on each

StatusCake includes SMS credits every month: 75 on Superior and 400 on Business, with more sold inside the app. One text to one number uses one credit. Its knowledge base says email and push alerts repeat while a test stays down, but SMS does not, and phone calls run through an integration on a contact group with no repeats and at most one call per five minutes per account. So each person gets one text and, if you set it up, one call per outage.

Uptime.com gives each tier a monthly allowance of SMS and phone call alerts that resets on the 1st: 25 on the $9 tier, 50 on 25 checks, 75 on 50 checks, 100 on 100 checks, 350 on 300 checks. Its help center says every message counts, the down alert and the up notification, once for every phone number. There is no SMS pack. When you run short, the pricing FAQ points you to the next tier.

A worked example shows how far each allowance goes. Three people should be texted on every outage, and the account has four outages in a month.

• StatusCake Superior: three credits per outage, 12 credits a month, well inside 75. But the team member limit means two of those three people are contacts rather than users, and nobody gets a second text if the first one is missed.
• Uptime.com, 50 check tier: a down and an up text to three numbers is six per outage, 24 a month, inside the 75 allowance. Add a phone call to each person on top of the text and it is 48. Add an escalation to a second group and a single bad week can use the month.

For one person getting one text per outage, both are fine. The more phones and the more repeats you want, the more each model pushes you up a tier or toward a separate paging tool. Our StatusCake pricing breakdown and Uptime.com pricing and SMS limits go through every tier on each side.

What else is in the price?

The two tools bundle very different things, and that should weigh as much as the per monitor figure.

StatusCake plans include monitors you would otherwise buy elsewhere: page speed (15 on Superior, 30 on Business), domain expiry (50 and 120), SSL certificate checks (50 and 100) and server resource monitors (3 and 10). Business adds 30 second checks and an audit log. Status pages are a separate subscription, from $14.95 a month or $12.46 billed yearly for one page.

Uptime.com is broader on check types. Basic checks cover HTTP, SSL, DNS, ping, TCP and UDP ports, mail protocols, SSH and more. Advanced checks add API monitoring, transaction checks, page speed, heartbeat and third party service monitoring. Each check runs from 3 of 12 locations, it keeps 24 months of history on every tier, and maintenance windows, escalations and SLA reports are included. Status pages are an add-on from $13 a month, or $10 yearly.

If you want domain and server checks next to uptime, StatusCake's bundle is hard to beat. If you need transaction checks, multi-location confirmation and long history, Uptime.com is the better fit.

The contract terms to read before paying yearly

StatusCake renews every subscription automatically, and its terms ask you to cancel at least 70 days before the renewal date. On a yearly plan that means deciding in month nine or ten. Payment by invoice starts at Business yearly, and invoice customers do not get the yearly discount. Renewal notice periods like this are easy to miss when they sit in a vendor's terms page instead of a calendar, which is exactly the kind of date that contract management software is meant to surface before it passes.

Uptime.com offers a 30 day guarantee on paid plans and annual billing at about 20 percent off. Moving between tiers is how you buy more checks or more alerts.

Where TrackDowntime fits, honestly

We sell a competing monitor, so weigh this paragraph with that in mind. Below 300 monitors both StatusCake and Uptime.com are cheaper than us, often by a lot. Our Starter plan is $49 a month for 5 endpoints at 5 minute checks, Professional is $99 for 25 endpoints at 60 seconds, and Enterprise is $299 for unlimited endpoints. If the job is to watch many URLs and send an email or a chat message when one fails, buy one of the two tools in this article.

We are worth the money in two situations. The first is scale with a known price: at 500 or 1,000 endpoints our Enterprise plan is $299 a month, or $149 billed yearly, where Uptime.com is $375 to $750 and StatusCake wants a quote. The second is when an outage has to wake people up. On Professional and Enterprise every phone number on an endpoint gets a call, a text and an email at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 minutes, then at 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 96 hours until the check passes, and none of it is counted against an allowance. That is the gap both tools leave when one missed text means the store stays down until morning. The details are on our phone call downtime alerts page, and the plans are on pricing.

If you are leaving one of these two specifically, the StatusCake alternative and Uptime.com alternative pages compare each one with us line by line.

Which should you choose?

Choose StatusCake if you watch between 50 and 300 sites, one or two people need the dashboard, and you value the bundled page speed, domain and server monitors. Superior at about $20 a month yearly is one of the best value plans in the market.

Choose Uptime.com if several people need logins, you want 24 months of history, transaction or API checks, or you are past 300 checks and want a published price. It is also the cheaper choice under 50 checks at one minute intervals.

Choose neither on its own if outages must reach several phones until someone answers. Either pair the tool with a paging product or use a monitor that repeats calls by itself.

Frequently asked questions

Is StatusCake cheaper than Uptime.com?

Yes, between about 50 and 300 monitors. StatusCake Superior covers 100 monitors for $24.49 a month and Business covers 300 for $79.99, against $75 and $225 on Uptime.com. Under 50 monitors at one minute checks Uptime.com is cheaper, and above 300 StatusCake only quotes, so Uptime.com's published tiers are the easier price to plan around.

Does Uptime.com have a free plan?

No. Uptime.com's pricing page lists no permanent free plan. The entry tier is $9 a month, or $84 a year, for 10 basic checks, 1 advanced check and 25 SMS and call alerts a month, with unlimited users and 24 months of history. StatusCake does have a free plan with 10 monitors at 5 minute checks.

Does StatusCake send phone call alerts?

Yes, through a phone call integration attached to a contact group. StatusCake's knowledge base says call alerts do not repeat while a test stays down and are limited to one call per five minutes per account. SMS alerts also do not repeat, while email and push alerts do.

How many users does StatusCake include?

StatusCake Superior includes one team member and Business includes nine, according to its pricing page. Uptime.com includes unlimited users on every tier, so a team of three or more often finds the two prices much closer than the monitor counts suggest.